Comments on: The Whirring Sound of GMT+0 http://www.bytesurgery.com/blog/2008/04/24/the-whirring-sound-of-gmt0/ Digital Media Engineering Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:21:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Robert Synnott http://www.bytesurgery.com/blog/2008/04/24/the-whirring-sound-of-gmt0/#comment-21367 Robert Synnott Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:03:30 +0000 http://www.bytesurgery.com/blog/?p=357#comment-21367 Actually, Google Reader gets Blogger and Feedburner-ed posts pretty much instantly now. Actually, Google Reader gets Blogger and Feedburner-ed posts pretty much instantly now.

]]> By: Eoghan McCabe http://www.bytesurgery.com/blog/2008/04/24/the-whirring-sound-of-gmt0/#comment-21366 Eoghan McCabe Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:27:44 +0000 http://www.bytesurgery.com/blog/?p=357#comment-21366 I think the argument for posting early is quite straight-forward: * The older the post, the less likely people are to interact with it (leave a comment, write a post about it, add it to social bookmarking site, e-mail it). Obviously, this is a generalisation, but often a post it most relevant at the moment it's published. * Given this, you want people to see it as close to the publish time as possible. A lot of folks will do their reading first thing in the morning (the spike here for my reading is at 10am: http://skitch.com/eoghanmccabe/krs2/google-reader-1000, the spike for a sample from contrast.ie is at 10am: http://skitch.com/eoghanmccabe/krs9/visits-for-all-visitors-google-analytics), so if your post is not ready by then, you have to wait another 24 hours for them to see it, by which time they are less likely to interact. I post at about 7am which I've guessed is the latest time I can publish while still getting most (you can see in the Analytics picture, traffic starts to build after 7am) morning readers in GMT+0. But what to do if you've a perfectly geographically-distributed reader-base? I think the argument for posting early is quite straight-forward:

* The older the post, the less likely people are to interact with it (leave a comment, write a post about it, add it to social bookmarking site, e-mail it). Obviously, this is a generalisation, but often a post it most relevant at the moment it’s published.
* Given this, you want people to see it as close to the publish time as possible. A lot of folks will do their reading first thing in the morning (the spike here for my reading is at 10am: http://skitch.com/eoghanmccabe/krs2/google-reader-1000, the spike for a sample from contrast.ie is at 10am: http://skitch.com/eoghanmccabe/krs9/visits-for-all-visitors-google-analytics), so if your post is not ready by then, you have to wait another 24 hours for them to see it, by which time they are less likely to interact.

I post at about 7am which I’ve guessed is the latest time I can publish while still getting most (you can see in the Analytics picture, traffic starts to build after 7am) morning readers in GMT+0.

But what to do if you’ve a perfectly geographically-distributed reader-base?

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