Analyizing my blog traffic

I’m taking a page out of @fredwilson’s book (avc.com) and analyzing my blog traffic (via Google Analytics) to see what’s changed from last year to this year.  It’s a great exercise that I think anyone with a blog should look at. In 2009, the traffic stats break down like this: — Direct traffic / RSS:…

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Is Facebook evil? Maybe. Is Facebook evolving the web? Most definitely. NY Times, you’re way off.

The debates about whether or not Facebook is “evil” for its recent announcements continues to rage on.  It’s being discussed and dissected everywhere, including within this blog’s community. The NY Times doesn’t know what its talking about, or at least Randall Stross doesn’t Good friend and blogging bada$$, @tobydiva, pointed me to this article on…

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Is Facebook super evil? Jumping off Calacanis’s rant…

If you missed it, Jason Calacanis wrote a very well put together rant on the evils of Facebook.  He makes some great points and he definitely has a case. The following is an email exchange that @bmeriwether had about that post.  Sometimes these “offline” conversations start growing and my thought is, threw it up and…

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Thanks to Betty White, we now have a use for Facebook

If you missed it, Betty White was on SNL this past weekend.  She killed.  Who’da thunk it. What’s cool about this story is that some dude started a Facebook Fan Page called, “Betty White to Host SNL (please?)!“, and somehow got over 500,000 people to like it.  I didn’t even know 500,000 people watched SNL. …

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