Google Followers - This Shall Not Stand!
We are so grateful for all the positive feedback that we receive on this website. None is more gratifying than the 234 lackeys, aka Google Followers, that hang on our every word.
I take that back. We are not grateful at all. It has come to my attention that Mark Shea has 270 minions, a fact that he rubs in our faces every chance he gets! You may not know this but he mocked us at the last secret blogger meeting held at the La Quinta Inn in Poughkeepsie (They have great tacos there btw!). Yes, he is a well respected author, editor, and radio personality and we aren't, but so what! This shall not stand!
Oh sure, Patrick Madrid has 489 followers, but he has that cool Burt Reynolds mustache. We just can't compete with that. But Mark can and should be knocked down from his perch.
But it isn't just Mark. Father Dwight Longenecker has 258 followers. It is true that he is a priest and we just can't buy that kind of street cred. However we view his Google superiority as evidence of a pernicious form of clericalism. Besides, we have more hair. Well, Matthew doesn't but I do and I probably will for at least six more months. So act now!
Anyway, help us to right these injustices. Follow CMR on Google!
36 comments:
Maybe if you talked down to your followers as lick-spittle you'd get more of them. Just a suggestion.
Yeah, but you see, I have you in my "top sites" on Safari on my Mac, so I don't need the evil, Chinese-repression supporting global corporation Google to help me follow you.
I like beez's answer. :-)
Call me old-fashioned, but I just visit your web site directly.
You're my next stop after Drudge each morning. But I can do this one small favor for you. ;-) Peace!
Oh! Can I just say, as an loyal reader and avid commenter here, that I was outraged(!) when a major navigational change was made on this site without asking your loyal readers what they thought? I miss the pop-up window com box! That way, I can keep scrolling down on your site and click over to read the comments when I was ready. It was a system I really liked, and now, you guys have gone all "standard blogger template" with the comments section. I realize that this is not a democracy, but now, I go to your site AFTER Drudge, and not before.
I didn't know there was such a thing as a "Google follower," honestly. I go straight to your site every morning and have done so for months, now. I use Google's search engine sometimes, and GoogleMaps is, I think, a little more reliable than either MaqQuest or MsnMaps (time will tell, I suppose, but the others are at least temporarily on my pitts list after giving me faulty info and causing a hugely frustrating series of U-turns and improvisations to get to where I needed to go).
I like the more direct approach, generally, but if it'll make you happy, I'll check out this "Google follower" thing today. No promises that I'll keep up with it, though. There is a time to use middlemen and a time to skip 'em.
Nuts! I have to create a google account? Seriously??? I need a break.
This story breaks my heart. I have six followers, and an average of about 100 visitors a day. No crazed fan is stalking me -- yet.
You're right about the tacos. Yum.
Woah! You have 6 followers but 100 visitors a day!?! That is a great ratio... I have 11 followers and about 30 visits a day.
I wish there was a way to track "followers" feeds and the rest in an easier tight knit way. Everything is soooo just random.
Btw- i follow you :) Subscribed to the feed, and check the site daily :)
Ah, I remember back in the days when I only had 234 Google followers. It was a very sad time.
(This is a good opportunity for me to state again my prediction that your blog is going to be *huge* one of these days.) :)
Okay, I took the plunge. Cuz I'm all about sticking up for the underdog. That's just how I roll.
Oh no you di'n't. (Is that how you spell that?)
Next taco night, we're starting a food fight and throwing the condiments at Jen.
It's on like Donkey Kong!
Jen: I miss the comment box too. I blame Patrick. As he is essentially talentless in all aspects of blogging he was given the job of designing the site and he tinkers with it from time to time. Keeps him off the streets.
I don't do the google following, but I do subscribe to you in the google reader.
You have 892 google subscribers if that makes you feel better...if you don't notice that Mark has over 2,000.
But the good news is Father only has 770.
Shitskee. I thought I was following you guys....been coming by here faithfully for over a year, I think! So, I'm a follower now. Sorry!
Sarah-Kala,
We're extremely dissapointed in you but feel that in admitting your terrible mistake you've made some remarkable steps today and we're proud of you.
matt
Christina, how does one set up Google reader to allow followers? Or is that something automatic? Thanks.
Well, just tried to comment and it was lost somehow. It figures with my technological know how. I actually used to be current but somehow over the past 10 years have become old I guess. Have been coming to your site directly for awhile and didn't even know I could be a follower without having my own blog! So I just signed up as one of your followers, you are the first site that I am officially following, even though there are several sites I check directly. Thank you for your web site! It helps lighten my day and keep me somewhat informed from a catholic point of view. :) God Bless You! God, please don't let this get deleted when I try to post this time. In Jesus Name, AMEN!
I've been following you guys, like, forever. You're my favoritestest blog. And I'm not just saying that because I have a guest post, either.
If you'd like, I can loan you my 82 followers for a few days so you can catapult past Shea.
I have only four. No one is crying for me! Okay, babies, I'll follow.
"Christina, how does one set up Google reader to allow followers?"
Ummm, I don't know. Actually in trying to find out the answer I found out that I'm apparently following 10 blogs (of which yours is one). I wonder when that happened.
I started following you guys as soon as I found you...and I drive my husband crazy every night telling him what you have posted...
Being that I have all of 19 followers...I'm not feeling bad for any of you!
Okay, so that was fairly painless. I'm in.
Oh boo frickin' hoo Patrick! You're cryin' over 234 followers? I got one! One lousy stinkin' follower, I tell ya! (Whoops! Let me rephrase that. I mean one precious, adored, much loved follower. I don't wanna lose her.) Be grateful for what ya got, kid!
266!
I am sorry Father. Look out Mark!
How about a Facebook link?
I already do! the only drawback is that I love the actual site. It is so much purtier than the plain google blog.
Oh, and I think you can link to this on Facebook if you have the blog ap.
I guess we sit somewhere in the in-between. Between the Google followers and the Networked Blog followers, we sit at about 120. You guys should watch out...we are coming for you.
Mark doesn't mock me - yet.
FYI - American Papist has 2,312 people who subscribe to his blog in Google Reader...we have about 200. We are no threat to his fiefdom.
OK, I'm a new follower, but seriously, you think Patrick M's mustache -- which I totally like -- is a Burt Reynold's thing? I don't see the resemblance, but then I don't think he sounds like the host on Catholic Answers Live either. Maybe I'm just weird. I'm hoping I don't start posting here, I need to be looking for a job!
I have a Google account, but I'm just too cool to use it to "follow" anyone.
I come here directly too. Thanks to Firefox's spiffy "smart address bar," every time I type "m", CMR appears at the top of the suggestion list. So I hit the down arrow button, then [enter], and here I am.
I too had the habit of opening comboxes to read them later, but actually now I think that's bad for your brain because it kind of gives it a shock to see comments for one post you've read five other ones. So thank you for your efforts to keep my brain healthy.
I'd say the worse comment section is AmP's. I hate having to go through the trouble of logging into Twitter and then telling the comments app to not publish it to my Twitter account. Fr.Z's comment section is pretty bad too, in that I can't even post in it (I don't like giving away my real name, not even to good ol' Fr.Z - the Internet just makes me paranoid).
That should've been:
comments for one post after you've
the worst comments section is
telling the comments app to not publish my comment to
I guess your efforts to keep my brain healthy have come too late =)
Matt, I thank you for the "forgiveness" . . . your blog ROCKS, man!!!
Well, I've been a CMR google follower long before.
My own blog has about 50 hits a day, while I have a grand total of two Google followers. One is an Archbishop, and the other is my mother. No problem.
WillyJ,
AS CMR doesn't have any Archbishops following us, we're willing to make a trade. Your archbishop for three CMR readers to be named later.
You can keep your mother. Trading her would seem a little unseemly.
If it is any consolation to you, I started following you before I started following Patrick. I also don't follow Mark yet although I do read his blog occasionally .
Don't feel bad. I have 2 and _one_ of them is my daughter. I have two daughters and a wife. What's with that?
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