Snark, criticism, attack-bait, poking wasps nests, call it what you want, while it might be an effective “link bait” strategy, it’s not one I would recommend. This is the path to the dark side. First let’s look at why someone might be tempted to use this tactic. It’s quick and easy It works Takes little […]
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20,000 Visitors, 500 Subscribers, in 7 Days
It’s now 7 days since I uploaded WordPress two over my chrisg.com domain. Time for a one-week-birthday update. Since launch this blog has: Had over 20,000 visitors (according to FeedBurner, Analog reports many more but I don’t trust log analysers). Most of these visitors arrived because the blog has … Been Dugg twice. Added over […]
The Problem With Metrics in a Web2.0 World
Steve Rubel is asking What Will Replace the Almighty Page View? but I am not quite convinced by his candidate, “Events”. These days most interactive web sites are built using Flash and/or Ajax (a cake mix of Javascript, XML and HTML). Page views are useless here. They only count complete refreshes of a page. Yahoo’s […]
Vista, One Windows Too Many?
Mark is asking When Will You Upgrade to Vista? To answer your question Mark, not any time soon. Microsoft hasn’t exactly completely lost me as a customer but neither have they done anything at all that makes me want to upgrade. I will elaborate but first here is what Mark has to say Is there […]
Jeremy Zawodny Slams Widgets
Jeremy Zawodny has gotten his dislike of JavaScript Badges and Widgets off his chest With all the talk of how the web has “become writable” with advent of blogs and self-publishing tools, you’d think that we’d have a better way of getting third party content on to our sites. Given that an overwhelming number of […]
Online Reputation Management: This Is Not Your Fathers Politics
Reputations can be made or broken online. Presidential candidates you would hope would have only the very best advisors. B.L. Ochman reports one presidential hopeful has had a few problems with his online image lately … A few days ago, typing www.rudyguiliani.com — a common misspelling of his name — took you to a site […]