It’s sort of an odd claim, yet backed up somewhat by interesting stats.
Author: Clif Guy
Is Feedster better than Technorati?
Seems like it might be. Terry Storch is complaining about Technorati too.
Web 2.0 explained
Informative podcast of a previous Public Radio broadcast with a panel of experts explaining the idea of Web 2.0. Chris Lydon moderates.
Dave Winer repeats some of the things he said in his podcast I previously linked.
David Weinberger and Doc Searls, two of the co-authors of the Clue Train Manifesto, add their points of view.
Dave Winer on RSS and related innovations
Listen to this 25-min podcast by Dave Winer, one of the Internet’s great innovators and strategic thinkers. It puts the innovations of RSS and podcasting into a strategic framework. I know it’s 25 minutes, but it is a good use of your time.
More podcasting stats
GoLexa
This is an amazing tool for search engine optimization and site optimization in general.
Colossal failure
Here’s the ultimate epilog to a story of colossal IT project failure that made headlines in the national popular press 10 years ago – the ill-fated baggage system at Denver International Airport. It’s a good reminder of why it’s best to keep IT projects small, to deploy as soon as possible in order to start getting a return, and to make incremental improvements from there.
Blogs and power laws
A couple of years ago Jason Kottke shared insight into how power law distributions relate to the web.
Quoting from the post: “Many systems and phenomena are distributed according to a power law distribution. A power law applies to a system when large is rare and small is common. The distribution of individual wealth is a good example of this: there are a very few rich men and lots & lots of poor folks. It’s been shown that the distribution of links on the web scales according to a power law, so it comes as no surprise that the distribution of links to weblogs does as well.”
Leo said something interesting the other day: “the web is fractal in that it has a similar level of complexity at all scales” (or something like that – Leo feel free to correct the quote). This power law thing seems like it might work at any scale. The web as a whole follows a power law. The blogoshpere follows it. Does an individual site follow it (http://www.cor.org/ or www.umc.org)? What about a section of a site (www.cor.org/missions or web.umc.org)? I’m thinking it does.
If that’s the case, what does this tell us about site design? Well, obviously, the most important stuff must be on the highest-traffic pages. Traffic falls off rapidly from the top (root) page of a tree of pages to the bottom (leaf) pages.
Bridge Strategy
Alex Yefetov says we should be building content on our site that relates to the most searched terms on the web, such as: sex, love, dating, health, and career.
Alex lays out the foundation of this approach:
Bridge Strategy part 2
Godcasting
Kerry Woo has some interesting stats about podcasting sermons.