Site Traffic…Sex!

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I continue to find it really interesting to track my site traffic trends using wordpress and Google analytics. I’m never really sure which posts will generate a lot of traffic, or where it comes from. So now that I’ve been at this for just over a month, I decided to take a look. Here’s what I came up with: Seeing as how I’m not going back to Cambodia, eating more tarantulas, or changing my domain name anytime soon, I’ve concluded that if I want to increase my traffic, I need to talk more about sex, and James Spector needs to keep re-tweeting my posts. But it would be strange in a circular sort of way if he re-tweets this one.

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No, Shut Up

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This is dead on. Via Ezra Klein, the following answer was provided on Quora in response to this question: Why is Dropbox so popular? Well, let’s take a step back and think about the sync problem and what the ideal solution for it would do: There would be a folder. You’d put your stuff in it. It would sync. They built that. Why didn’t anyone else build that?  I have no idea. “But,” you may ask, “so much more you could do!  What about task management, calendaring, customized dashboards, virtual white boarding.  More than just folders and files!” No, shut up.  People don’t use that crap.  They just want a folder.  A folder that syncs. “But,” you may say, “this is

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The Framing of News

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I wanted to check out the latest from Egypt this evening, so I first went to the BBC: Then I went to Al Jazeera: From the headlines alone, you’d think he gave two different speeches. I won’t read too far into it, and the articles reported much of the same information with varying emphasis, but it seems the BBC is quick to report a victory on behalf of the protesters, while Al Jazeera is implying the protests must will go on. Take another look at the two pictures of Mubarak.

States and Stuff

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Via Colin Whooten, The Economist compares country GDPs with individual US states: I wouldn’t have expected Saudi Arabia to be comparable to Massachusetts. Texas and Russia feels about right.

Why is Al Jazeera Blacked Out in US ?

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Via The Big Picture via the Huffington Post: WTF? Huff Po: Canadian television viewers looking for the most thorough and in-depth coverage of the uprising in Egypt have the option of tuning into Al Jazeera English, whose on-the-ground coverage of the turmoil is unmatched by any other outlet. American viewers, meanwhile, have little choice but to wait until one of the U.S. cable-company-approved networks broadcasts footage from AJE, which the company makes publicly available. What they can’t do is watch the network directly. Other than in a handful of pockets across the U.S. – including Ohio, Vermont and Washington, D.C. – cable carriers do not give viewers the choice of watching Al Jazeera. That corporate censorship comes as American diplomats

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I Have A New Home

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It’s been one month since I started this blog, and I’ve had a great time with it so far. I expected to write primarily about beer, but the content has taken some unexpected turns. And I think that’s ok. It’s been humbling to see that I have quite a few regular readers. So thanks for stopping by. I’ve really appreciated all the comments and feedback, and I think I’ll keep the blogging up. With that said, I’ve decided to move. A few readers suggested I pick up somethingsbrewing.com. So I did. And if I succeeded in moving my content, you should be on the new site now. The process to move everything was a bit messy, and I’m still working

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