Product Code Names should be redone

William — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 06:42:00 GMT

I got my head above water and started getting administrative tasks under control. So I start looking at Traffic and realize that all of my posts that blog about Barbie Barbie Cummings site, link to Barbie Cummings Blog or Barbie Cummings MySpace Page, result in tremendous traffic. In fact, Barbie herself mad an appareance.(NONE of the links are safe for work)

So clearly hot porn stars draw a lot of attention. No one wants to admit it, but weblogs lie a lot less than people and they say "Blog about Porn". So wouldn't it be a good compromise, from a marketing point of view, to dub your products with names like "Heather", "Jenna", "Janine", "Chloe","Tara" "Sindee" and the like? Subtle enough to get under the radar, clear enough for the right people to get. LIkely to raise some suspicion, but we're nowhere near Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, right?

I know, another great example of the type of stuff I blog about at 3:00 AM when I can't sleep. But somehow, I think there might be something to this. Would you rather work on "Orcas" or "Janine" I rest my case.

Technical Blogging vs other stuff

William — Fri, 25 May 2007 15:05:00 GMT

I remember a while ago, KC had a post about what people really read. His point was that, no matter how cool his technical articles were, they didn't get anywhere near the attention that his posts on Religion/Politics/*** etc did. People may claim they don't like to read posts about such topics, but their traffic patterns tell a totally different story.

Seems to me he's on to something there...

Now, I seem to remember some jealous loudmouth running his mouth a while ago about my readership. If memory serves, he took a few shots at me to the sheep in the KnightsOfASPRoundTable (and honestly, I swear, he had a Yahoo group called that. It was like 20 dudes in a private group who were proud of being KnightsOfAspRoundtable - go figure) claiming that my readership was under 100 people.

"I sent that email to see if he would apologize -- but instead we see
has no shame, no brain and cannot admit when he was wrong. I think
well over half his deleted post attacking me was a huge insult to ****
coders who are quite good so I wanted the knights to be aware even if
they meet Bill Ryan in neutral contexts he and his readers (all < 100
of them typical blog volume) are bad news to be avoided. Consider
yourself warned.
"

You may remember, the 'email' he sent me was the one threatening to sue me with his 'Big City Lawyer' and his '12k-24k a month income'. The post had over 100 comments on it, all but 5 of which were dogging Charles. This post alone had over 1000 aggregate views. To put it in perspective, he's been blogging an entire year and doesn't have 100 comments to all of his posts combined.

UPDATE:

So rumor has it that his explanation for this is that I'm posting blog volume from 07 and that his comments were made at the end of 05 (12/05 to be exact). Well, just to point out that he's wrong about this too...and yes, I can post December, January or any other month and it'll tell the same tale. He was making up facts as usual to try to disparage me b/c he didn't have anything real to hit me with.

/bill's House O Insomnia : Blog Traffic

Product Code Names should be redone

Technical Blogging vs other stuff