I know that we have a lot of regular daily readers here on the blog, but I've always wondered how many of you actually have read all of Neatorama. You know, click on the "Next Page" link on the end of the page until you've reached the blog's very first post.
It's a daunting task - we have over 16,370 posts as of the time I wrote this entry. At Neatorama's long page of 30 posts, that's nearly 550 pages full of goodness!
Well, it turned out that at least one of you did. Here's an email sent to us by Neatorama reader Mitch Wilson of Hungry Hollow Art (That's Mitch and the missus on there yonder photo):
My name is mitch and stumbled upon your site by accident while reading a story on my yahoo home page, I think it was about hoaxes. Anyhoo, I found your archives on the web and worked my way through all 546 pages. It has taken me a little over 2 months in my spare time to complete, sometimes as much as five or six hours in a sitting. A very addicting site indeed! I am now registered and get updates when you post them, just to see what you dig up next. An awesome site that my two sons and myself have really enjoyed, well except for my sore backside from hours of scanning hypnotizing post in my chair.
Thanks for letting us know and sorry about the backside, Mitch!
PS. What should we call such a schlep anyways? Neatoramaddiction? NeatoramAtoZ?
(Says the guy who reads about 100 blogs every day...)
Great site (and no, I've not read it all.)
Feng
I have WAY too much time on my hands apparently.
Totally worth it.
What else would i do with my time?
Old content is good content but in your case its lost.
Your site is great, I read it most days, but your old content, which is still great content will not get read nor indexed in the search engines as well.
Also with a list of different posts down the index page, means that the search engines won't rank you high for any one topic, as they are all diffused together. If you are using adsense to monitorise your blog the adverts won't match the posts either.
Also if old posts are listed down the side with hyperlinks that too diffuses your keyword content and reduces your ranking and income.
These drawbacks mean that you spin your wheels staying in the same place, you must always produce content to get return visitors and old content isn't appreciated or read.
Because of these inherent drawbacks you need to change the structure of your site. What works with a small site with little content is failing you with your current site, you have moved beyond this system and need another type of structure to hold your content.
That is the next stage in the development of neatorama, one that sees your hard work properly recognised.
Hope this helps :)
But no matter. I refresh each morning and read what you give us. It's always fun. :)
I am going to vote for NeatoramAZ.
I wonder if anyone has read all the comments as well as the posts?
From now on, Neatorama University should award PhDs to those few tough souls who dare to sink their teeth into chunks of unabridged neatness, rather than gulping it down in convenient capsule form on the Neatorama mainpage.
(btw, I would gladly pay $50 for a framed Neatorama diploma. Can this be done?)
I also read the entire site when I came across it (I do that with all the new sites I really like). Neatorama took me about 4-5 days to fully peruse; like Emily I inhale 500 page novels in one sitting, so going thru the archives was a breeze.
And like Compwalla, I too hate the fact I have to wait for updates; I'll purposely not come to the site for a couple of days just so there's a few things for me to read!
Btw, Neatoramafication is my suggestion.
Alli
Like others I browsed through the whole website, only reading the post interesting to me. I should sleep more...
Maybe Alex could make a T-shirt out of this? "I survived reading all Neatorama posts" ;)
I've read most since I started, but didn't delve into the Archives.
I have no fancy name for it.
I've read about 95% of the site. Mostly when I got a raging case of insomnia. :-)
--TwoDragons
:(
Perhaps not. :P
Yes, anyway, my housemates had left for a two weeks' vacation and I used that opportunity to read every entry on a few blogs, including this one. It took me about three or four days, for many hours a day, and I have been hooked ever since! Thanks Alex, Miss C, and others for keeping me entertained throughout the day! :D
neatoromantic.
I love how this blog updates so often ; )
You should do a survey, see how many people have read the whole thing. Personally, I tried to do it only because I thought that you would be purging the oldest ones, which would be tragic, stopped only when I realized it wasn't necessary, go back to my list whenever I have time....thank you by the way for keeping it all!
No, not too much time on my hands - but the same way Alex and friends made it all - you read it one bite at a time and sometimes take a few big helpings! :D
Its just something thas i have to do when i find someting that i like........
Am I a freak?