| Tuesday, May 1, 2007 |
| Updates on 'Week Awakening' & our RSS/email-delivery. |
(Update on 2nd May:) The "Awakening" video just entered an "All Time" ranking! I so didn't see that coming. The 99th Most Linked entertainment video of ALL freakin' TIME. (...I would like to think embedding it on our sidebar counted for something, heh. "Here we are now with the falling sky and the rain, we're veryyyy-cunning!") It currently stands at 412,615 hits - and, though that's not as awesome as 412,412 would've been (as BlackBall00n observed on the video's comments), it's great for a 3-week stint. It's also climbed to the 78th most viewed video this month, from #85 when I made the post below. Keep burning it up those charts, fams! *is proud of us...and the video, of course*
All this reminds me of nardcore's observation on the LP boards:
tivo is the new vcr. colbert is the new cnn. youtube is the new mtv. Also, updated the first part of the post below, spurred by Heather's comment. The RSS feed won't be deactivated (as was originally posted). Read on... --
Hello friends,
rss/email subscription stuff We appreciate all 96 of you who subscribe to our feed either by email or through RSS feed readers - you represent the core of our readership. (...not that all those who aren't subscribed are less loyal, Heather.) I'm amazed and humbled at how that number has grown, because it reflects your interest in what we do here, and tells us we're doing something right. Our coverage may currently be slightly lacking (compared to the standard we tried to set when we started out), as a couple other projects (and family) are keeping me busy. As you may have noticed, our RSS/email feed has started to look a bit ugly, with html code messing up the post titles, older posts showing up, etc. - it's because I'm re-coding our RSS feed for an exciting project we're working on. Please bear with this rehashing that temporarily makes it not so email-ready - it should be clean and good to go in no longer than a couple weeks.
Not only will our coverage be back better than ever, but once our RSS/email delivery is cleaned up, we'll be opening it up such that you can receive ENTIRE posts in your email and your feed readers (instead of the 4-5 line previews you've been getting). I hope you consider that worth the wait - meanwhile, you could scroll down to "switchAddicts" on the sidebar and sign up for updates if you haven't yet. I'm also thinking of making my upcoming long-overdue "Revenge" post an email-exclusive - so if you don't wanna miss that, you might wanna sign up for email updates! (haha I don't mean to con you into subscribing, I just think the "Revenge" post might be more appropriate as a grassroots thing.) :)
week awakening I think we can safely say "Week Awakening" has been a success. The "Awakening" video just made it onto this month's top videos (overall) on YouTube, at #85. Congrats! Have a look at the video's 9 honors so far:
#85 - Most Viewed (This Month) - All #14 - Most Viewed (This Month) - Entertainment - All #13 - Most Viewed (This Month) - Entertainment - English #48 - Top Rated (This Month) - Entertainment - All #28 - Most Discussed (This Month) - Entertainment - All #27 - Most Discussed (This Month) - Entertainment - English #53 - Top Favorites (This Month) - Entertainment - All #28 - Most Linked (This Month) - All #7 - Most Linked (This Month) - Entertainment - All The video has completed 3 weeks on YouTube. It's got one more week to remain on the charts, after which it will fall off all those charts as it enters a new counting phase for it's 2nd month (from there on it's highly unlikely to make it to any charts, unless it gets linked on google.com, ofcourse. ...anyone know Google's CEO? I wanna make him an offer he can't refuse...) So, why don't we make the most of this campaign, take the video as high on those charts as we can, get as many people as we can to see it (directly or indirectly), until the day the video enters it's second month? In other words, "Week Awakening" for another week, anyone?
peace, thanks, and other mushy stuff.
-phil |

posted by phil @ 10:53 PM  
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sweet! I'll keep a look out for whats happening. this is probably my most checked rss feed
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all right, so, did i misunderstand something? first you said that the email thing was suspended, and then in the next paragraph, you threatened us with never being able to read the long-anticipated Revenge post if we didn't go sign up for the email updates right now! so i tried to submit my email address, and surprise surprise, it didn't work! :o) what are you doing to me, brother? i can't take this rejection. haha. just being melodramatic for fun.
all along, i've been thinking that it's pointless to get the email updates, since i check the site regularly, anyways, but now that i know you're judging our loyalty by whether or not we subscribe - it looks like i need to subscribe! plus i want to read the Revenge post. so there, tell me i pass the loyalty test. :)
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haha thanks for pointing that out heather :) big oversight on my part. didn't realize deactivating email delivery meant deactivating people from subscribing too. hmm..what do i do. okay, you know what.. i'll de-suspend email delivery. i guess you guys will just have to put up with some html that messes up post titles, for a little while. and i'll edit the above post. thanks heather, and sorry bout that!
and no - i'm not judging loyalty by whether or not you subscribe - i just meant that subscribers TEND to be the most regular readers, but there are regular readers on either side of that fence, for sure. :)
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haha phil, you're really into this awakening thing I can tell, we've never been bribed and given 'other mushy stuff' in one post...ever! ha anyways, super duper awesome-ness, I can't believe it's on the charts for All Time...that made me happy.
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Haha Heather, I felt the same way!Guess I'll have to subscribe more sooner than later if I want to read that Revenge post Phil!
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haha well you don't HAAVE to subscribe.. the post will exist at the same location where the preview currently does. you just won't be UPDATED about it :P ....unless hehe how bout we look at it this way: it's a little gift for the subscribers. :)
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"Here we are now with the falling sky and the rain, we're veryyyy-cunning!"
terrible, phil. terrible.
;)
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p.s. hello from houston, texas, i'm at a stopover flight.
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oh, crap, i was really tired when i wrote that. and it earned a "front page" mention. hehe. that made my day.
it really was all in good fun. everyone knows that, right? and i'm happy to subscribe. just don't be spamming my inbox with all those emai-- oh. wait...
(just kidding!)
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and, thanks, phil.
*goes to submit email address...*
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I'm not subscribed either. I didn't even know you could subscribe. Hah.
@ Tina, I agree.. :P
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hmm... I was subscribed for email updates for a long time, but I actually unsubscribed, because I check the site all the time anyways, and I have enough emails to sift through as it is. BUT I have been waiting for this "revenge" post forever (seriously)... you should make it a subscriber/other loyal readers exclusive. Or... something like that.
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Where do you go to subscribe anyway? I come here often enough, but it would be nice to get e-mail updates probably.
-Christina
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oh, nevermind. I found it =D
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So you suspended or deactivated the e-mail temporarily to be able to have time to fix the html and other problems? Now it says 18 e-mail subscribers. Do I have to re subscribe?
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okay, i don't know if i'm allowed to let this out, but i kind of feel hard-pressed to explain what's going on with the RSS otherwise, and i think you faithfuls deserve to know: http://www.switchfoot.com/index4.html :)
it's got some more rough edges that need to be worked on, but that's why the RSS is changing. we'll have a clean RSS separately for the feed, once this testing phase is over and we can separate the feed for switchfoot.com and the one that goes to your email.
@tina, haha yeah i know that was lame. sigh ...i can only try :P
@jill, the post will be where it's at right now - it'll only be updated with what you're waiting for. so you WILL be able to see it even if you don't subscribe. :) i promise you'll know when it's up - i'll email you or something. got some stuff to talk to you about anyway. ...thanks for waiting for that post, i will try my best to make sure it's worth the wait.
@emily, that's just the number of subscribers via feed readers - it went down to 18 because it subtracted all email subscribers when i deactivated it, i think the number should be updated by tomorrow morning.
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haha phil, I notice that the date on the update has been changed. The last time I checked it said march...and I honestly sat there for a few moments thinking...crap, is it really march? oh no...and then I realized. :D
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Here we are now with the fallen sky and the rain- we're very cunning! Here we are now; we're some desperate youth with a plan, we're very cunning!
Hehe.
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sweet! I'll keep a look out for whats happening. this is probably my most checked rss feed