Gee, thanks Alexa!

Somehow, Alexa has never really appealed to me: I really don’t want to tell some third party everywhere I go on the web, and I’m not all that interested in where other people went next; I’ll make my own decisions about which link to click, thanks just the same. Ten million people can be wrong.

But thanks to a link from Scott to JoeUser.com I wandered over for a look. What with “People who visit this page also visit the kill your weblog test,” and “You may be interested in Stupid White Men,” I don’t think I’ll feel the need to go back there for any more affirmation any time soon.

5 Comments

Comment by Dao, the dog #
2002-12-17 15:23:09

too bad it doesn’t parse beyond radio.weblogs.com
I’m too cheap to get a domain… so for now, I’ll pretend that my web site rating (which says it’s for 0107233) is really the one that appears… (which is really radio.weblogs.com heh heh
Related info for Radio.weblogs.com/0107233 Aaarf… this is so funny, I’m going to put it in my stats opml… not bad for a dog… okay, so there. I left my mark… as dogs are known to do.

ps. the blogger api is broken at blogspot.com
(yeah, I’m too cheap there too…)

 
Comment by Phil Ringnalda #
2002-12-17 19:45:35

I was a bit tempted to claim the traffic ranking for one of my Blog*Spot blogs (”look, I’m number 1,191 on the whole interwebnet!”).

API doesn’t seem broken to me: I just posted through my homebrew PHP app to a Pro blog, and then posted & published through w.bloggar to a Blogger Classic blog with no trouble. What are you using? Sometimes when they shuffle the return values around without ever admitting it, some apps break for a while.

 
Comment by billsaysthis #
2002-12-18 11:34:52

Phil, does your ’homebrew PHP app’ use the PHP wrapper that Beau Lebens and I did up for API 1.0, or is it something new you wrote for API 2.0?

 
Comment by Phil Ringnalda #
2002-12-18 11:53:25

Nope, it’s just the ”Open Post” thing I did with yours for my FAQs last summer: given the amount of use it sees (I’ve gotten exactly one post that I could publish, and maybe a dozen test and misunderstanding posts) I’m not in a desperate hurry to code up my own API 2 classes. I’d be happy to help, if you guys need some really bad coding assistance, though ;)

 
Comment by yuga #
2003-05-18 17:45:58

Alexa rankins are really cool. Makes you feel you;re on top of everybody else. :D

 
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