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May 12, 2005
Political blog traffic down
HundredPercenter has some blog traffic numbers. Very interesting.
BLOG TRAFFIC DOWN
17.7% SINCE NOVEMBER:
HundredPercenter has just completed a study analyzing monthly web
traffic of 100 websites, big, small, political, non-political, conservative and
liberal– from November 2004 to April 2005.
Slowplay.com’s traffic up 2075% in the period he tracks.
Eric Anderson at 5:33 pm
April 4, 2005
DNS Problems
We’ve been having some DNS problem lately where not everyone can resolve this domain name. This has been going on and off for the last few days and varies by provider. I don’t think there is a temporary solution because we don’t have a unique IP.
I’m guessing this will be fixed shortly after [...]
Eric Anderson at 12:31 am
March 9, 2005
Google Suggests
Google suggests….
A amazon
B bbc
C currency converter
D dictionary
E ebay
F firefox
G gmail
H hotmail
I ikea
J jokes
K kelly blue book
L lyrics
M mapquest
N news
O orbitz
P paris hilton
Q quotes
R ryanair
S spybot
T target
U ups
V valentines day
W weather
X xbox
Y yahoo
Z zip codes
Valentines day? Ryanair? Paris Hilton!
Autogenerated listing of the top Google Suggest keywords for each letter.
Eric Anderson at 10:44 pm
February 20, 2005
Drudge vs. Bloggers - by the numbers
Daily Visits
Drudge: 7,650,107
Top 100 Blogs combined: 2,259,705
Alexa Ranking
Drudge: 346
Free Republic: 1,811
DailyKos: 4,518
Instapundit: 7,710
Google Pagerank
Drudge: 7
Instapundit: 7
DailyKos: 7
Google Backlinks
Instapundit: 78,200 : (57,400 + 20,800)
DailyKos: 51,330 : (49,000 + 2,330)
Drudge: 48,520 : (41,700 + 6,820)
Technorati Results
Boing Boing: 18,457 links from 11,546 sources
Instapundit: 14,165 links from 9,205 sources
Drudge: 10,749 links from 8,654 sources
Blogshare Value
Instapundit: B$1,751,696.90
Drudge: B$1,417,931.05
DailyKos: [...]
Eric Anderson at 12:57 am
February 10, 2005
Internet Explorer: Rock Solid?
Microsoft is offering in beta form its new Antispyware software:
Microsoft® Windows AntiSpyware (Beta)
Overview
Windows AntiSpyware (Beta) is a security technology that helps protect Windows users from spyware and other potentially unwanted software. Known spyware on your PC can be detected and removed. This helps reduce negative effects caused by spyware including slow PC performance, annoying pop-up [...]
Eric Anderson at 8:12 pm
February 3, 2005
Finally, Supreme Court will decide true value of Instalanche
Jordan Golson from Cheese and Crackers has apparently threatened legal action against 13 year old blogger Austin from Austin’s Blog:
HundredPercenter story: (a must read)
Austin’s Mom:
Our server contacted me that Jordan Golson was representing Matt Margolis(Blogs for Bush) for copyright infringement.
Nathan J. Novak (who will now be representing me) has the preliminary legal analysis:
In the hypothetical [...]
Eric Anderson at 12:14 am
January 21, 2005
Slowplay’s Top 40 Blogs
In response to John Hawkins’ Top 40, I have compiled the way I see the blogoshpere at this time. It’s amazing how your favorites changes over time and how many great blogs there are.
We don’t have any ad deals with anyone (heck, we don’t even have ads), so no blogs were excluded, but had [...]
Eric Anderson at 1:33 am
January 19, 2005
Is Google on crack or what?
This has to be the dumbest “solution” I’ve ever heard.
Google has announced a new hyperlink attribute called : rel=”nofollow”
Example:
Visit my <a href=”http://www.example.com/” rel="nofollow">discount pharmaceuticals</a> site.
It tells the search spider to NOT follow the link the tag is on. The intended benefit is to stop comment spam from being as effective at getting PageRank [...]
Eric Anderson at 1:52 am
January 17, 2005
Hewitt snubs Slowplay on O’Reilly Factor
Hugh Hewitt of the aptly-named blog HughHewitt.com made an appearance on Fox News Channel’s The O’Reilly Fact0r on Friday to comment about the Daily Kos scandal. Kos had taken money from the Howard Dean campaign in exchange for positive press on the blog. Hewitt’s comments on O’Reilly were similar to the ones made [...]
Nathan Novak at 12:01 am
December 23, 2004
Old School Blogs - Who’s still around?
Here’s the Instapundit blogroll from January 23rd, 2002
Recommended:
Virginia Postrel
TechCentralStation
Best of the Web
Jonah Goldberg
Overlawyered.Com
Dave Kopel
Kausfiles
Talking Points {site moved}Joanne Jacobs
Michael Barone
Andrew Sullivan
Pundit Watch
Matt Welch
Ken Layne
Adragna & Vehrs
Patrick Ruffini
Bjorn Staerk
Fredrik Norman
Andrea See
Frank Cagle
Jerry Pournelle
Rand Simberg
James Lileks
SpinSanity
Charles Johnson
Samizdata
SmarterTimes
U.S.S. Clueless
The Occasional {discontinued}
UThant.Com {broken link}
RealClear Politics
Tim Blair {site moved}
Damian Penny {site moved}
Hollywood Investigator
Natalie Solent
Shiloh Bucher
Jeff Jarvis
AnnaFrancoReview {discontinued}
NanoDot
Sgt. Stryker
Listen Missy {broken [...]
Eric Anderson at 7:06 pm
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