I saw the post on The Bump and that was how I found your blog. I was really interested in the article and this blog until I read this post. You may not mean to, but you're coming off as condescending and its a turn off. I see your point - but I really don't see what the big deal is. That post was giving your blog positive, free publicity. I guess I just don't understand the problem with that?

That is really cool. I'd totally be checking things out.

I so wish something like that would come with student papers. I have to check things more manually. You'd be surprised by the number of people that don't know that "copying & pasting" other people's work (including websites) - without quotation marks/indents & citation is stealing!!! I give out so many zeros to my first year class.

Does it tell you that someone from Ames, IA visits at least once per day (sometimes more - yikes). If you don't see me check after a few days call the police and start a body search!!!

Honestly? This is why I don't have Feedjit anymore and why I gave up checking stats for Lent (although I do check them from time to time now that it's up). It was causing rage and anxiety and paranoia in me, and it really started to affect my writing. I don't have Google Alerts set up because I simply don't want to know. Every now and then I check my sitemeter and see what links are coming in at the moment, but it only shows me the last 100, so I don't see everything. And my blog isn't nearly as polarizing as yours, but there are still plenty of people out there who hate me, my blog, whatever and feel the need to link to it and make fun of it/me. It does me no good to read that shit. I'm not going to jump in and defend myself, so I really don't need to know.
Have you ever thought of limiting the access you have to what's being said about you? If you think about it, in real life you don't know what people are saying about you every second of the day, so why would you want to be privy to that online? Just a thought :)

You know, I had this Feedjit thing on my blog eons ago, but had no idea of its capabilities. I got rid of it in a cleaning spree, but I'm putting this bad boy back up and I'm actually going to use the data that comes alone with it this time!

Ha.

Thanks for the info, yo.

I think feedjit is a great idea. I have never known if any one ever reads my blog, or even if any one visits it. I would know to know That any one has goes there. This is so cool, I knew something like this existed, but I did not know what/where/how to find it. Thank you!

All I can think is, "beetlejuice, beetlejuice, beetlejuice"!

Those feedjits are fun.....sometimes. I had a post on my old blog because our house was for sale. One of the attributes I listed was "five blocks from Volt restaurant of Bryan Voltagio of Top Chef Fame." Feedit linked me to a forum where a commenter was talking about my post. It was fun!

Okay I've been doing this for over a year and I have no idea how to check for links!! Except in my wordpress stat thing which only shows permalinks. So someone please tell me how I can find out when people are talking behind my back?

That's pretty awesome! Thank goodness I'm not much of a shit-talker! ;)

http://analytics.blogspot.com/2010/05/greater-choice-and-transparency-for.html

A great article and link for people who would like to read blogs but also wish to have more privacy in the information bloggers can obtain about them.

Oh - I like that! I may have to figure out how to do that myself. I already have Google Alerts but do you know how many lame alerts I get for "eco" and "chic" - yeah!

How did you know my mind was in the gutter?

I think - and I could be wrong, but we had to look into this at one point - if you copy and paste an article for someone to link to, the maximum you can use by law is 100 words. So I can pull a 100 word paragraph and plop it only my iVillage bio page with a link to your site and it's cool. I still can't pass it off as my own, of course, but yeah - you can't copy a whole article from ANYWHERE.

I've had Feedjit for ages, but it only shows me what geographic location people are coming from, not what their own blog/site/email is. Is there some way to follow that further? Because I have had some creepy comments I would like to track back to source...

Dude, uneducated? Seriously? Was that all they could come up with? That's like saying, Hey! The Feminist Breeder is actually a fundamentalist right wing Christian in disguise!
Who calls a law student uneducated? That only makes the utterer sound stupid.

Jeepers.

I've linked to you before! But I don't copy/paste. And mostly I lurk.

Remember your posts regarding leaving Jules in the car at preschool drop off? Have you read Free Range Kids? She has a website. I came across them recently and thought of you and your kid-in-the-car dilemma, which we all share!!!
I thought it interesting the range of responses you got on that topic: from taking kids with you to PUMP gas, to running in stores and leaving kids in the car in full view in small towns. Who knew? So many different solutions to such a difficult problem!

Anyways, that's off topic. I really just commented to say that it's stupid someone would try and call you uneducated! Or say anything at all bad about you. Ever.
=)

cool! I am not at all web savvy, I've only just put google analytics on mine and I rarely even check it! Glad to know that these kinds of tools are out there though, thanks!

So linking to your posts every day will get me at least one more hit? ;)

I seriously would anyways though. I love your blog. You always seem to say exactly what I'm thinking in a straightforward way that I'm way to chicken to put out there.

Can I just say how much I hate links from private forums? They make me totally paranoid. Totally.

I had a similar thing happen to me. I noticed a bunch of hits from a forum and PM on that forum. I found out that someone was trying to get people to flame me on my own blog. How lame can you get? It was a relative no less.

Umm... so can I start hiding the words "Feminist Breeder" in random and unlikely places? hehe. Just for the thrill of the hunt? :-)

awesome :P :P thats super cool. :P

Is it really lame I got excited to see Norfolk, VA on there and hoped it was me??

Love it...I talk (as in spoken word) about you to people often only bc I think everyone should check out what you have to say! Good to know that i am not breaking rules but posting links! :)

Wow, neat! I had no idea!

Dude, you're like Beetlejuice. But we need only say your name once rather than 3 times and you have much better hair. :-)