visitors “flock” to my blog
Ok, so the pun was bad, but i had to get it out of my system. Allow me to explain. my google analytics showed a spike of visitors the last couple of days, specifically on friday. It seems my post on the new safari tools has caught the eye of someone important, as it looks like Chris Messina posted it to the Ma.gnolia.com web dev blogs group. To mangle a quote by Ron Burgandy, “i dont know if you know this, but he’s kinda a big deal”. Chris is an open-source advocate, and is largely responsible for the mozilla based browser, Flock (even though he no longer works there). Actually, i found THIS list of stuff he’s done, and considering he’s only 2 years older than me, i have some serious catching up to do. But yeah, Chris likes my blog. I get the feeling that Chris is a humble web-pseudo-celebrity and will probably call me out on this, but hey, if he’s reading my blog, i think that’s awesome. Thanks for the traffic. Leave me a comment or something, let me know what you think, i’d love to talk shop.
2. July 2006 at 10:01
Hi Alex, Just saw your comment on my site (It’s a beautiful Sunday and we are inside on our computers…. what’s wrong with this picture? :-)
At any rate I am with you the whole blog thing is pretty wild how stuff can spread like wildfire. I can certainly understand the creeped out feelings on a quick return on a post. I did read though that there are more than 10,000 personal bloggers at Microsoft and that number is growing quickly so you never know.
Keep up the awesome work with your site! Now get out from behind the PC and get outside!! ;-) I am….
2. July 2006 at 10:02
Oh yeah forgot to add. Like your site so much am going to put a permanent link to it from mine. :-)
2. July 2006 at 17:53
Hey Alex, thanks for the props…!
I wouldn’t say that I’m a big deal or anything, but I have been around a bit, whatever that’s worth! Anyway, your screenshot of the Safari WebDev additions were pretty helpful, as a picture is definitely worth its weight in pixels when you’re used to such tools being only available for Firefox.
Not sure if you’ve seen it, but definitely check out Xylescope.