“The individuals benefit from the knowledge of other individuals, and as a mass, we become greater than the sum of us all!!!”
Facts :

People, overall, are more intelligent and more informed than ever.
One week’s worth of newspapers will give more information than the amount of information given to an average person living in Europe in the 1800′s… in a lifetime.
3,000 new books are published each day.
In the last 2 years or less, there have been 17 Billion new web pages added to the WWW (World Wide Web). Between 1998 and 2005 …

I guess it became a bit of a hobby for me to compare major websites and their functionalities in this way. Of course, I’m a guy who needs to be doing this kind of research just so that I can keep up with the trends and provide better work for my clients. The last major review I did was Facebook vs. MySpace/Nexopia etc., and today I want to compare Netscape and Digg.
Today I want to cover the basics of these two community websites.
These sites will both :

Allow its members to …

Well, the stats are in for February, and I’ve done some things to this blog to enhance the looks and the functionality of it, as well as keep up diligently with new and informative posts.

Let’s do a quick recap of the growth in traffic :

Is it just me, or does everybody else often have a hard time finding a category for your Digg submissions?
Their categories are sometimes too specific, and there aren’t enough of them. I find myself debating what category is the closest to what I am about to submit, and it’s very difficult.
Anybody agree with me? The Digg Categories are so hard to choose from and poorly organized.  
Here’s a list  of a few items they should be adding :

Funny Stories (NOT in the video section)
Reviews (a whole Reviews Category, and then …

In the previous entry regarding how to measure the quality of your posts, I was asked by my friend Jimmy Reimer “how long does it take to write a post?”.
Well, it all depends of course… I’ll classify the type of posts I have into 4 large categories in terms of how much time goes in, and what I get out of it. So here is my classification system :
Type A
Simple posts that have just writing would be considered type A, and they are the easiest and least time consuming. …

Generating traffic is the first step, but retaining the traffic is also important too. If people come to your site, and feel that your website is of no value, they will leave and not return. I’ve created a custom list of things to analyze to figure out the quality of your blog posts.
These figures are from my own blog and are not benchmark figures by any means, but if I can gather a larger amount of statistics, I could perhaps come up with a scoring system to calculate the quality …

My RSS feeds throughout Thursday, February 22nd, was at 62, and all time high. When I checked it just now (after midnight on the 23rd) it dropped to 36. I was wondering if the quality of my posts just dropped drastically, but then I realized that John Chow’s RSS feeds went from 3,300 or so to 2,900 or so. I guess there is a cycle perhaps? A very interesting experiment would be to try to figure out a regular trend of when the RSS feed count drops or jumps.
Starting today …