I am glad traffic is very good and as I think about your readership it makes some sense to me that they don’t have 2 hours a day to post comments on blogs.

Just a note to anyone who may click on my name and land on a hodgepodge of complete craziness (though the pieces on “Google: People Like You” parts 1 & 2 may be of interest to this crowd). I am involved in a “hobby” with a friend of mine that we’re planning on launching in the fall. I needed to learn all the new tools and the blog you will land on if you click this is just a “practice zone”.

I’m in San Francisco and will definitely visit you!

Robert

Where have you been? For others, FYI, Robert and I go way back into prehistoric AOL days, when he had a great blog (that’s before there were blogs) about AOL and the online space.

Thanks for the note, and the compliments.

We are working with the Journal and all its arms to better promote the site. We got busy with our conference, but are focused on leveraging and linking now 24/7!

We will also be focused on promoting community. Walt and I decided on a very strict comment policy, since we want a completely civil dialogue, so that might be part of it.

But even though there are not many comments, we are actually getting a surprising amount of traffic, especially given very little promotion (aside from the conference). So the reading and commenting do not seem to relate to each other as much. Odd, but true.

But thanks for your shout out!

And come visit me soon in SF.

It doesn’t appear that the WSJ has made any real commitment to generate any traffic to article specific content on All Things Digital, whenever there is great synergy and it doesn’t get leveraged, my reaction is, “You HAVE to be kidding me!”. I no longer pay for the WSJ online but do occasionally use the free site. While that site does promote the conference content, there is no linking (that I could find) from today’s blurbs about Yahoo on the free site to your also “freely” available content.

You’re a great writer, with great insight and theoretically your posts should generate a lot of bustle and commenting. That doesn’t appear to be happening, and I think that’s too bad. Your work is both better and much more readable than most of the stuff out there. I think it’s great that WSJ backed the site, but sad they didn’t come up with a strategy for turning it into one of the more vibrant communities.

I know the site is new, and I also know the site had a ton of traffic during the conference, and I’m sure it will build over time with folks like Ted L. giving you and Walt shout outs in his blog, but the lack of synergy between the free WSJ.com content and here seems kind of dopey to me.

Though I am sure you can and hopefully will build traffic organically over time, the synergistic jumpstart from the mother ship couldn’t hurt.