My year in blogging

It was a mixed year for me as a blogger. I didn’t post much as I would have liked – I spent most of the year working with eBay in a process that eventually led to Hunch being acquired. But I also learned a lot and tried to share some of those learnings here. Below are the posts I think were the best and also seemed to get the most pageviews and reader comments.

For older posts, see the contents page. I haven’t updated this page in a long time but plan to do so soon.

http://andersonjr.com/ wiljr

According to my numbers, you should focus posting on Sundays and Tuesdays, and keep the number of characters in your titles to <25 to gain the most reactions.

I always wanted to do that. I can now move on.

(Thanks for a year of great posts!)

http://www.cdixon.org chris dixon

ha, what numbers are you basing that on? sounds like good advice.

http://andersonjr.com/ wiljr

Nothing special: Titles, dates, reactions. Just a little fun on a Wednesday night.

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http://andersonjr.com/ wiljr

According to my numbers, you should focus posting on Sundays and Tuesdays, and keep the number of characters in your titles to <25 to gain the most reactions.

I always wanted to do that. I can now move on.

(Thanks for a year of great posts!)
Anonymous

Hey Chris, I thought your posts were awesome this year. Thanks for sharing the learning. The problem of “trust” and how you build it, keep it, use it on the internet has been on my mind a lot lately so your an “internet of people” post was very timely. Looking forward to 2012!

http://www.cdixon.org chris dixon

Thanks! I hope to blog more in 2012 but we’ll see…

http://www.alearningaday.com Rohan

Thanks Chris. Only 1 month or so old here.

Liking it lots.
Anonymous

Besides all this, there’s also ‘Founder Stories’. Hate to be a fanboy but it’s been consistently good since your first interview of Turntable (pre-pivot).

Is there any chance you might take questions/suggestions to write on more specific topics, especially in the consumer web space?

http://www.cdixon.org chris dixon

thanks! sure, fire away, and if it is something I think I know something about happy to write about it.

Anonymous

Cool!

One of the big trends I (& presumably many others) would love to hear your take on is Micronetworks. Think Path for starters. But even bigger, the focus on one-to-one interactions vs. the broadcast mentality of Facebook/Twitter etc.

They work on a different set of social dynamics I believe and there is opportunity to leverage deeper engagement IMHO.

Would love to hear your thoughts.

http://rocrastination.com/ Ro Gupta

Hey Chris – you can also check out http://cdixon.disqus.com/admin/analytics/activity#/start=2011-01-01&end=2011-12-31 to see your most active threads, most popular comments, etc.

Belated congrats on the acquisition btw. Was glad to see the @hunch:twitter team will be staying in NYC.

http://www.cdixon.org chris dixon

thanks ro! love the analytics. is there a way to see a graph for the whole year?

http://rocrastination.com/ Ro Gupta

Yup – in the Activity, People and Network tabs you should see a date picker in the upper right.
In fact this is what @fredwilson:disqus used to write http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/12/a-2011-retrospective-on-the-avc-community.html

http://wesleyverhoeve.com Wesley Verhoeve

Thanks for all of these Chris. Have gotten a lt if interesting and thiught provoking stuff from here in 2011 and I look forward to more in the new year!
Anonymous

Awesome posts…

Thanks for sharing….im looking forward to 2012..

Hope it will continue the same…

Chris Dixon