Posts with category: Web
Slashdot turns Firehose on Digg
Let’s face facts: Slashdot started this whole thing. They are the proto tech blog, the guys we all looked up to as baby bloggers. Slashdot was rocking its own forward-thinking blend of editor-driven user-generated content years ahead of any of this web 2.0 nonsense, years before the likes of Engadget landed. But as much as [...]
AOL to become TMZ
I really can’t believe Brian. The man’s not even with us anymore, and here he goes leaking the big news. I’ve been in meetings for the last two weeks about this very topic, and yes, the rumor is true: AOL is rebranding itself to TMZ. Kind of brilliant when you think about it. I’m sure [...]
Top 50k blogs did $500m in 2006?
TechCrunch reports that University of Texas and Chitika have a study estimating the top 50,000 blogs did $500m (or an average of $10,000 per blog) in revenue in 2006. I originally wrote this post based on the $50m figure TC reported, but the $500m figure quoted in the report actually sounds a lot more reasonable [...]
Engadget pipes
I was perusing Yahoo Pipes today (gotta love it) and was somewhat shocked (and impressed!) to happen upon some 70-80 custom Engadget feeds. Users have created custom feeds for everything from honing in on Apple and Wii and BlackBerry news to combining Engadget and Gizmodo into a single, mammoth gadget news feed. But oddly enough, [...]
Yes, Alexa is a ridiculous barometer
Rob Malda loses it for 5 minutes and totally goes off on Alexa. 99% of what he says is true, and for whatever reason, people really do tend to look at Alexa as a standard for traffic metrics. (I can tell you that as someone who runs a “reasonably large web site,” having the Alexa [...]
Outage
Looks like my site had a temporary outage this weekend (blame Hans Reiser and that file system of his, if you must), but it looks like things are humming along on ryanblock.com’s new server. Thanks Chad!
Switched over to ryanblock.com, dropped the middle initial
With a little caving in to cybersquatters, some mod_rewrite magic, and help from Chad and Chris Finke, it looks like everything’s finally moved over to ryanblock.com — which might be why all the items in this feed are showing up as unread in your aggregator. (Aside, for those wondering, the now-missing a in between Ryan [...]
Apache nerds: ryanblock.com needs your help!
Hey, anyone good with Apache mod_rewrite rules? I could use some help 301 redirecting ryanblock.com to ryanblock.com. It’s not just a simple switch since I’m changing the permalink structure (from ryanblock.com/archive/YYYY/MM/slug to ryanblock.com/YYYY/MM/slug), but hit me up if you think you can lend a hand! Update: Wow, that was near-instantaneous. Chris Finke FTW!
Microsoft, now Sony are blogging — where’s Nintendo?
Microsoft may have one of the most blogger-friendly policies in the industry these days, and there is no shortage of semi-official Xbox-related sites — some 20 are linked from Microsoft Games’ official Gamerscore Blog. (My fave is, of course, Larry Hyrb’s blog.) But when it came to official game console makers connecting with their audience, [...]
Why is Safari on Windows?
Download Squad asks the the same question I’ve been asking (rhetorically) all day: why is Safari on Windows? Yeah, I know there are actually a lot of very good reasons right beneath the because-we-can surface — Michael Gartenberg makes some great points. But I guess I just find it a bit frivolous, considering those were [...]
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