Comments are an important part of blogs. In this post I summarize several scientific studies on blogging and commenting. Two conclusions are that comments are important for feedback and self-expression and to build social links. Furthermore they are...

My Outsourced Brain has made a great improvement in visitor statistics last month. Thanks to everybody who visits and comments here. Thanks especially to people from entrecard who drop here as often as possible. Hopefully we've been able to give you...

I just received a mail by digg.com celebrating their 5th anniversary and I thought it was worth commemorating this event with a post. Digg is one of the biggest social bookmarking websites. Inspired by slashdot, Kevin Rose, then 27 years old,...

One of the most appealing elements on a webpage are "popular posts". There are several possibilities to get popular posts, e.g. by number of comments or visitor statistics. In this post I present 5 widgets that display your highest voted posts from...

My Outsourced Brain again has made a great improvement in visitor statistics last month. Most importantly it had an increase of about 300 percent in visitors, many new comments, the recent google pagerank update gave it three upgrades to currently 3,...