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	<title>Comments on: The Best Stuff of the Week 2-18-07</title>
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	<description>For People Pursuing Freedom</description>
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		<title>By: Dan and Jennifer</title>
		<link>http://steve-olson.com/the-best-stuff-of-the-week-2-18-07/comment-page-1/#comment-2138</link>
		<dc:creator>Dan and Jennifer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2007 05:36:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey Steve,

We added the top commentator plugin ourselves to increase comments, and something very very strange happend. Comments really picked up!

And the comments weren&#039;t bad at all. after all you can delete comments that don&#039;t further the conversation and don&#039;t help build the community around the blog... I had a brief discussion with Allen on his blog about this too.

The backlink is nice, but for me it&#039;s always powerful to contribute to the conversation and share perspective and ideas... maybe it&#039;s a &quot;blogger thing&quot;. :-)

And on the RSS increase, hey - that&#039;s still a bunch of new subscribers we didn&#039;t know we had. So it as a very welcome surprise indeed.

Glad you added the MyBlogLog widget - it&#039;s funny, I just looked at it now and I know at leaset half the people on there. Maybe I blog and surf too much. Don&#039;t tell Jennifer. :-)

Have an awesome day!
Dan</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey Steve,</p>
<p>We added the top commentator plugin ourselves to increase comments, and something very very strange happend. Comments really picked up!</p>
<p>And the comments weren&#8217;t bad at all. after all you can delete comments that don&#8217;t further the conversation and don&#8217;t help build the community around the blog&#8230; I had a brief discussion with Allen on his blog about this too.</p>
<p>The backlink is nice, but for me it&#8217;s always powerful to contribute to the conversation and share perspective and ideas&#8230; maybe it&#8217;s a &#8220;blogger thing&#8221;. <img src='http://steve-olson.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>And on the RSS increase, hey &#8211; that&#8217;s still a bunch of new subscribers we didn&#8217;t know we had. So it as a very welcome surprise indeed.</p>
<p>Glad you added the MyBlogLog widget &#8211; it&#8217;s funny, I just looked at it now and I know at leaset half the people on there. Maybe I blog and surf too much. Don&#8217;t tell Jennifer. <img src='http://steve-olson.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Have an awesome day!<br />
Dan</p>
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		<title>By: Allen.H</title>
		<link>http://steve-olson.com/the-best-stuff-of-the-week-2-18-07/comment-page-1/#comment-2133</link>
		<dc:creator>Allen.H</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Feb 2007 20:17:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hello Steve,

Yes, I am indeed one of the top commentators on John Chow&#039;s blog, although I do not encourage using this plugin. Yes, I will not deny that I&#039;m commenting mainly for the backlink, but I&#039;ve never left a comment like &quot;me too!&quot; &quot;hi there!&quot;, &quot;lol!&quot; or anything that isn&#039;t at the least considered somewhat CC/productive.

Hope this clears some of the irony,
Allen.H</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hello Steve,</p>
<p>Yes, I am indeed one of the top commentators on John Chow&#8217;s blog, although I do not encourage using this plugin. Yes, I will not deny that I&#8217;m commenting mainly for the backlink, but I&#8217;ve never left a comment like &#8220;me too!&#8221; &#8220;hi there!&#8221;, &#8220;lol!&#8221; or anything that isn&#8217;t at the least considered somewhat CC/productive.</p>
<p>Hope this clears some of the irony,<br />
Allen.H</p>
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		<title>By: AdventureDad</title>
		<link>http://steve-olson.com/the-best-stuff-of-the-week-2-18-07/comment-page-1/#comment-2137</link>
		<dc:creator>AdventureDad</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Feb 2007 14:59:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>That photo is disgusting....   I like the post about intelligence.  Only problem is that I already do most of these things.  How do I know get smarter (or less stupid?) :-)

AD</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That photo is disgusting&#8230;.   I like the post about intelligence.  Only problem is that I already do most of these things.  How do I know get smarter (or less stupid?) <img src='http://steve-olson.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>AD</p>
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		<title>By: Liz Strauss</title>
		<link>http://steve-olson.com/the-best-stuff-of-the-week-2-18-07/comment-page-1/#comment-2136</link>
		<dc:creator>Liz Strauss</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:39:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thank you, Steve. I appreciate that!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you, Steve. I appreciate that!</p>
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		<title>By: The Digerati Life</title>
		<link>http://steve-olson.com/the-best-stuff-of-the-week-2-18-07/comment-page-1/#comment-2135</link>
		<dc:creator>The Digerati Life</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Feb 2007 02:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Steve!
Ok you got me.  Thanks so much for the mention! :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Steve!<br />
Ok you got me.  Thanks so much for the mention! <img src='http://steve-olson.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Ben Yoskovitz</title>
		<link>http://steve-olson.com/the-best-stuff-of-the-week-2-18-07/comment-page-1/#comment-2134</link>
		<dc:creator>Ben Yoskovitz</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Feb 2007 01:16:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Glad you liked it Steve.

And no, it&#039;s not me.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Glad you liked it Steve.</p>
<p>And no, it&#8217;s not me.</p>
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