May 25, 2006
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I’m sure I’m the last to figure this out but today I noticed where it says Footprints so I clicked on it and all it revealed about the visitor was “Bloglines.” When I clicked on that, hoping I’d see a name, there was a blank form. How is it you are able to know who visited? Or maybe you don’t but I thought one of you mentioned that you could. And what is the difference between someone coming from Bloglines — What the hell is that anyway? Is it just like Blogger? Or is it a combination of all of them? And then I saw individual states so I figured those were from Xanga. Any information would be appreciated.
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The states are people on Xanga who have either chosen not to provide their footprint, or who weren’t logged into Xanga. When it says Blogline, it means that someone is reading your RSS feed. As far as I can tell, there’s no way to know who that is, nor is there anyway to stop them other than disabling your RSS feed (which you can do via privacy settings). I don’t really understand the whole RSS thing, except that it allows peopel to read your site without even having a Xanga account or anything (even if you have XangaLock on).
All I can say is it wasn’t me.
I read my non-xanga subs with Bloglines. Basically it’s a service that allows you to sub to a lot of blogs and news sites, and read them all in one place. I read a few blogs on Blogger and WordPress, and it’s much handier to have them all on one site.
I don’t have my xanga subs on Bloglines, because that makes commenting much more difficult – I need to sign in first, et cetera. And I like to comment.
Your bloglines subscriber may be someone on xanga who subs to your site, but chooses to read your blog through Bloglines.
I have had three people find my site through Google this week. Weird.
I’m a Xangan who subscribes to your site through Bloglines. I’m the only one, since it says you only have one subscriber – so I guess that’s me! Bloglines is a feed collector; it’s how I read blogs over a wide and divergent field of writers who are all over the place, Xanga, Blogger, Typepad, WordPress, and so on. It will tell me in bold that you have posted, and then I click on your blog to read what you’ve written. I like it better than Xanga’s subscription list for this reason – you can see who’s posted and you can choose who to read first. Lots of people have opted out of it, and then I only read them when I make my way into Xanga’s list, which isn’t very often anymore.
Interesting to see that InkStainedFingers uses it too. I first learnt of it from Sisyphus – Wayne of Rag & Bone Shop who left Xanga to set up his own website and blogs with WordPress.
Bloglines doesn’t post any private posts.
huh, i’ve never had a blogliner…
looks like you have it all explained nicely now!