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Couple of Monday Morning Thoughts

1. Having a Techmeme headline brought about 100x as many readers to my blog as having a byline, even though the post never made it past the middle of the page.
2. My first Techmeme headline came from the least controversial, most quickly written post I have done in weeks. It was just a reply to a question Dave Winer asked (and I barely answered it). Dave ended up linking back to it, which was already quite an honor.
3. TechMeme readers don’t click AdSense ads, by the way.
4. That FastCompany article on the unimportance/non-existence of ‘Influencers” is going to give word-of-mouth marketers something to talk about for a long time. Even if it turns out to be bunk, I love people who aren’t afraid to be contrarian.
5. Happy Birthday to Lego – you made my childhood a lot more constructive.
6. The TSA is a complete and utter failure, and every day it fails a little bit more.
7. Twitter is becoming more and more important as an information source for me. So are FriendFeed and ReadBurner.
8. I like AssetBar. It’s still a work in progress, but the GoogleReader developers should have a look at it. It might give them a run for their money in the long run. I just can’t figure out how to connect the name to an RSS reader. I guess they plan to become a lot more in the long run.

Ooh – nifty.

I’m with you on everything but #6. It’s like we had a mind meld.

While the TechMeme visitors don’t click on ads, they do sign up to your RSS and they are very sticky.

Louis – TechMeme readers are definitely more likely than anybody else to subscribe to your feed. For a tech blogger, there is no better audience.

As for #6: I spend too much time in airplanes in the last two years and after having seen what a real thorough security screening looks like in Colombia this month, I think I just have to stick to my opinion about the TSA for now