two guy whom I find valuable to read, Alvin Phang, an up and coming “youngish” blogger from Singapore and Carl Ocab, one of the youngest bloggers of note at al, 14 I think he is now, are hold an “RSS Contest”.

Here’s an excerpt from a comment I just left for Alvin:

… A few months back I unsubscribed from John Chow and Shoemoney becuase because they were running a contest like this and every post, hour after hour was nothing but ’sign up with me, sign up with me’ … it is as if they didn’t want the folks who had already become readers.  I ha dbeen with both of them for ages, in John’s case from his very early days with his own blog … and all he seemed to want was more and more curiousity seekers looking for some kind of prize.

A thought to roll around anyway … getting people to sign up is one thing, getting them to stick is a different task….

These contests are popular (or they were 6 months ago, a little passe’ now) time periods when the bloggers post a lot, sometime soffer pri\zes, andf in general protitute themselves in orderto get mor RSS (real Simple Syndicaion) subscribers.

My view is, I’m more thna happy to have any an all folks subscribe, there’s a handy link down in the lower right corner of the footer box.  But to hold a contest to attrcat more?  Can’t see it myself.

I like my readers to come right here to the “home drome” and read my articles (and occassionally see my ads) as I write them, not as some feed reader may decide to present them.  Som ebloggers go so far on this idea as to only let the feeds have excerpts of their writing, but I’m not hard-over on that … I make the feed available but to spend days and weeks poromoting it?  Counterproductive in my book.  What do you think?