OneAndOneIs2

Sat, Aug 04, 2007

After the storm

According to my webhost's stats, I generally get a thousand hits a day on this blog. That does include RSS hits & everything, and it's variable, but it sits roughly between 900 and 1100 most of the time.

After a year-old post of mine was, for some reason, submitted to reddit.com and made the front page, I had a week's traffic in the space of a day: 6674 hits.

The day after, just 891.

Maybe I should just stop looking at my stats, I clearly lack the capacity to understand them :o)

1 comment • Categories: Omni, My Life

Comments:

Comment from: hari [Member]

· http://hari.literaryforums.org

Some issues, even if they're theoritical or trivial on the whole, seem to attract a lot of self-righteous indignation.

The adblock issue seems to be one of them. I think it's making a mountain out of a bloody molehill. The majority of internet advertising is now within acceptable limits and advertisers are naturally realizing the negative impact of pop-ups, Flash banners and animated ads. It doesn't require a lot of moral posturing to realize that things correct themselves automatically over a period of time.

In the case of advertising, it's the same. We're moving naturally towards more acceptable forms of advertising that actually pays rather than irritating ads that have a negative impact.

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