I write way too many posts that fall off the front page before I’d like, so I’m playing around with a slighty different front page design. It’s basically showing 15 excerpts with cute little icons. The category and search results pages look the same.
I had a feeling Valleywag was going to say something negative about the Scoble why-didn’t-you-link-to-me thing, and I was right, but I was certainly surprised by the negativity, number of posts (four), even taking a low blow by analyzing traffic numbers, and comparing Scoble to John Kerry. But that’s Valleywag’s job, I guess. Monday, monday…
Yeah, it’s kind of wussy to blog about blogging, but several “incidents” occurred over the past week that were fascinating to watch play out, and one smarter than most blogger seems to have put things in perspective before it all happened (well, at least smarter than me).
Well, I just took the dive into the future with WordPress 2.1, after a bit of looking-before-leaping. Even as I write this post I’m noticing enhancements all over the place. The box I’m typing these words into has a nice tabbed interface between code and a visual editor.
There’s a bit of discussion concerning the traffic from Digg versus from other social sites. I thought I’d toss in two cents as I’ve had experience with traffic spikes from several sources, namely Digg, Valleywag, Shoutwire, Techmeme, and Megite.