Hey all. A weird question, those of you running weblogs, have you been getting emails from companies (not really spam, though definitely solicitations) to promote technologies that aid in reading and tracking blogs? You know, better RSS aggregators and reader-side block-tracking so that you can know when GNXP has a post on your cellphone or via MSN messenger.

Now, since this site is definitely a non-profit vanity (kind of negative actually), I really haven’t paid much attention to these entreaties. I don’t read many blogs myself, and am not preoccupied with getting the latest of Jonathan Edelstein’s musings (to give a random example of the type of weblog I read when I do read them).

Frankly, I figre that the “core” GNXP reader checks in on the site every other day, and the posting isn’t frequent enough that you’ll miss anything. So I doubt you’ll benefit from these sort of things, but do some of you beg to differ? I have no philosphical objection to enabling these sort of features (some of the technologies require I do some things blogside), and a few have even offered an “affiliate” program so I can get a little bit of cash if you take time to download apps, etc.

The main aim of this blog for me is to get people familiar with W.D. Hamilton’s or Daniel Sperber’s work (for example) and sow the seeds for intellectual discourse in the non-blog world. Don’t know if these technologies will help in that….

Posted by razib at 12:18 AM