Following an interesting post on the asynchronous nature of blog readership from Jackson Miller, it struck me that writing/posting and reading habits are different. That is not exactly an earth shattering thesis, but I wonder if there is a relationship between one's blog posting habits and one's readership...more specifically, one's intended/targeted readership? Aggregators like the one at Nashville is Talking (NIT) garner significant traffic throughout the normal business day and aggregated posts probably receive traffic from top level exposure as the right-hand column listings are periodically updated, but the aggregator continues to post blog feeds even when the NIT blog host isn't there and reader traffic slows down. (yes, there is plenty of conjecture in all of that). All of that to ask, Is anyone intentionally timimg their posts to correspond with higher traffic periods on NIT or any other aggregator? Does NIT traffic make some of the comment-traffic/converstaions more syncronous in nature rather than asynchronous? How important is a community-type aggregator to driving traffic to your blog?
For now, I will settle for identifying any sort of patterns in posting habits...it is not all that scientific, but may provide more fodder for questions. When you respond to this poll, please select the time period based upon your particular time zone. And if anyone has all of this 'figured out'...we need to talk!