TechTalkBlogs … status after a few days online I posted about TechTalkBlogs on Friday evening , and then Tuesday 28/02/06 saw the MSDN Flash go out which announced the arrival of TechTalkBlogs to the 1,000s of Australian MSDN Flash subscribers. So, how is TechTalkBlogs doing so far. Well, there’s some “buzz” in the blogosphere - Ben Barren, Alex Barnett Let’s look at some data from the system System Summary Active Feeds: 183 Feed Items: 1,174 Votes: 762 OK, so when I did the post , there were 173 active feeds, and we now have a grand total of 183. 10 new people added. Welcome to all the new folks who have joined into the conversation! So, now that it’s live - what can we do to make this better? I’m open to suggestions. What can we do to get this thing to soar??? [ Currently Playing : Cherish - Madonna - The Immaculate Collection (03:52) ] Comments Anonymous February 28, 2006 Love what you’ve done so far. BTW, the ‘RSS Feed’ looks to be broken - all the items in it have a pubdate of 9th Feb 2006 (even though the feed level pubdate is today, 1st of March. Is there any plan to have on-site comments? I do like the simplicity of the ‘thumbs up’ interface though. Anonymous March 01, 2006 well spotted jonno problem fixed cheers Anonymous March 02, 2006 Since I’m doing bugreports, I also noticed that BlogLines doesn’t like the RSS feed too much. The first problem is that for lots of feeds, BlogLines makes the title of the article a link, but often following that link gives a 404 error. E.g. the last item that showed up was titled ‘Readify Bloggers List OPML has been updated’ and the title is a a href that points at http://www.techtalkblogs.com/41046:349905:400838 which don’t exist. If I understand correctly what the Feed Validator ( http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Ftechtalkblogs.com.au%2Ftechtalk%2Frss.aspx ) is saying, the problem may be ite,s that are using GUIDs that are neither permalink guids nor marked “isPermaLink=false” The other problem is that bloglines also shows a ‘Link’ field which appears to pull out the value in the ‘Link’ tag in each item. The value for the item above is http://203.147.133.54/TechTalk/Link.aspx?ID=20249&URL=http://www.holliday.com.au/blog/readify-bloggers-list-opml-has-been-updated.html But when I follow that link, I get a 500 server error (Parser Error Message: There is no ‘CommunityServer’ module in the application to remove.) BTW, I’m only pointing these problems out because I care :-) Anonymous March 05, 2006 TechTalkBlogs has been alive for 10 days, give or take. I looked at some stats last week, so let’s… Anonymous March 06, 2006 jonno thx for pointing out the issues i think most of the problems have been fixed over the weekend hey - thanks for caring Anonymous March 12, 2006 TechTalkBlogs has been alive for 17 days, give or take. Time to look at some other stats: … Anonymous March 12, 2006 Looks like the infamous (and fellow Aussie) Frank Arrigo will be stopping by as a result of TechTalkBlogs. … Anonymous March 19, 2006 TechTalkBlogs continues to motor on. Time for my weekly look at the stats: System Summary … Anonymous March 26, 2006 It’s been a month since we launched TechTalkBlogs Let’s review the stats from the systems:… Anonymous April 02, 2006 It’s Monday, which means I need to do an update on TechTalkBlogs, as it moves into it’s fifth week… Anonymous April 09, 2006 Six weeks since launch, we’re bubbling along nicely with TechTalkBlogs. Here’s the system status:… Anonymous May 02, 2006 I haven’t looked at the TechTalkBlog stats for a few weeks now, due to my break, so let’s take… Anonymous May 08, 2006 TechTalkBlogs has been kicking around for a bit over 10 weeks now, infact for those of you keeping… Anonymous May 17, 2006 Time to check in on the health of TechTalkBlogs. It’s been alive 83 days. Feb 24 was when I first… Anonymous May 24, 2006 I might be at home sick but that’s not going to stop me doing the update on TechTalkBlogs for the… Anonymous May 31, 2006 We’re getting close to 100 days of TechTalkBlogs. That’s quite exciting. Let’s do a quick health… Anonymous June 05, 2006 Well, we past 100 days of TechTalkBlogs, and since today’s date is so special (6/6/6 for those… Anonymous June 29, 2006 We’re at the end of financial year and TechTalkBlogs, has been around for 126 days. I didn’t do… Anonymous July 30, 2006 Wow, it’s been a month since I looked at the TechTalkBlog stats. It’s been alive for 157 days… Anonymous August 30, 2006 So TechTalkBlogs has been alive for 188 days, that’s half a year! I am so happy to see this little thing… Anonymous September 29, 2006 TechTalkBlogs continues to thrive. It has now been alive for 218 days.  Just look how it’s grown… Anonymous November 02, 2006 TechTalkBlogs continues to grow and grow. I missed my regualr end of month status report, but I have Anonymous December 03, 2006 TechTalkBlogs , my little baby, is fast approaching it’s first birthday. I missed my regular end of month Anonymous December 03, 2006 TechTalkBlogs , my little baby, is fast approaching it’s first birthday. I missed my regular end of month Anonymous January 01, 2007 TechTalkBlogs continues to grow. Not long to go for it’s 1st birthday. How’s this for an interesting Anonymous January 31, 2007 It’s so exciting, TechTalkBlogs is almost one year old. It’s like the engine that could. System Summary Anonymous March 08, 2007 I am such a bad parent. My little baby celebrated it’s first birthday, and I didn’t take the time to Anonymous October 20, 2007 PingBack from http://cherish.wpbloggers.com/?p=3528 Anonymous January 24, 2008 PingBack from http://websitescripts.247blogging.info/frankarr-an-aussie-microsoft-blogger-techtalkblogs-status-after/ Anonymous June 08, 2009 PingBack from http://insomniacuresite.info/story.php?id=5965 Additional resources Last updated on 2006-02-27