Having a mooch, as I do, through my emails in the middle of the night – head nodding as I try not to crush a feeding baby – I made my way over to JM’s blog. The mini series ‘Blogs – How Do You Follow Them‘ has been incredibly interesting to read and I wish I had more time to read through the comments. Head on over there if you’re interested on a quick study on how people follow blogs, do their reading and their criteria for choosing who to follow.
Anyway, it was after reading these posts that I got to thinking. There are lots of bloggers that I used to speak to quite regularly, picking their posts out of my email and following the links through to read what they had to say. But some of them haven’t popped up recently. I assumed that they were just busy and hadn’t posted. After all, life happens to all of us, doesn’t it? Some days there is just no way to get a post out on time, whatever you do – which is why most of mine are planned out in advance, sometimes by as much as two weeks.
I logged onto the WordPress dashboard, thinking this was a bit odd, and followed the links through to my Reader. Well imagine my surprise; there are LOADS of posts there! Most of which haven’t made it anywhere near my email. Grr!
Crap. So when I thought I was caught up, it turns out that there are a tonnes of posts that I just haven’t seen because I never though that they wouldn’t come to my email. As a matter of fact, there are 43 blogs that WordPress thought to set as ‘Never’ when asked if new posts should come to my email!
Wuh? I never told it to do that!
*huff huff* I’ve fixed it now, and I know in future to double check it. Its fascinating though, that’s 43 blogs I’d forgotten I follow because its been so long since I heard from them!
This post is as much to apologise for suddenly going quiet on all those blogs, as to let you guys know; WordPress does weird things with your settings! If you think you should be getting more emails, or if a blog you follow has gone strangely quiet, just check out your Reader. You may get a surprise.
Good info to have, Ileandra. Thanks for the head’s up.
My pleasure.
It is so frustrating when that happens! But if you’re like me, there are also some bloggers you follow(ed) who have truly stopped posting. Some write a goodbye post and leave the blog up. But sometimes, I’ve clicked on the link in “Blogs I Follow” and a message pops up saying the blog no longer exists. And I wonder what happened that the blogger decided to call it quits.
Thanks for the shout out on my posts. In a few weeks, I will have another installment with new poll questions.
I’ve not come across any ‘goodbye’ posts, but at least those people are good enough to say what’s going on. Though of course that’s not always possible.
Its nice picking up the blogs I’ve missed but I can’t help but notice that I’m falling behind again! I have far too many to read in the middle of the night these days. Heh, that will teach me.
Looking forward to your next poll too.