Many people use Alexa as a generic “site comparison” service, but is it accurate? Here are some oddities I found:
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I guess building to flip isn’t always a bad thing
“Building to flip” is a term that means that you’d build a company, product, or service specifically with the intent to sell it. This strategy is not often the best strategy, since you remove customer from the equation and simply try to make the service attractive to prospective buyers. Good for you, bad for all of us. But is this always the case?
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Blogs to Riches: Popularity and Traffic in the Blogosphere
Clive Thompson’s article Blogs to Riches over at the hot new New York Magazine website has got to be the must-read article of the year so far. The premise of the article is that the rich keep getting richer, and in the blog world this translates to blogs with the highest traffic keep gaining more traffic, separating themselves from the B- & C-list blogs who fight tooth and nail to move out of the 4-digit daily pageview count and into the 5- and 6-digit realm of the real money-makers. I do believe there’s a divide in the new media world of weblogs, however just like with any other “rule”, there are exceptions.
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Niall Fixes Plaguing Movable Type Bug
I’m not sure if this is big news to all of you, but for designers/developers who work on sites run with Movable Type, it’ll probably be useful. Up till now, if you used custom submit images at the bottom of a comment form the entire comment-posting process wouldn’t work the way you expected. Either a comment would get previewed, but not posted, or it would put the user at the wrong template afterwards and wouldn’t record the comment. This behavior bothered me back when I was designing this iteration of the Business Logs site, since I had custom submit images all made up, but I could never figure out the problem.
LAUNCH: Niall Kennedy’s Weblog
After working with The Gigga Man on his site, it only seemed fair that I redesign his buddy Niall Kennedy’s site as well 😉 Niall’s launch entry has some really positive comments so far, which makes my week much better. Here’s a screenie: