Observations in the first 10 minutes 2
So, my first observation is that Google’s AdSense crawler appears to not be getting the joke. So far it has selected ads with titles like “Get Paid To Create Hubs” and “Blog Advertising”.
I guess the ad selection isn’t entirely stupid, as I can only imagine how many first time bloggers expect to make millions out of the public’s intense interest in their thoughts (because in blog world, unlike reality, everyone is interesting).
The other observations I have are:
- I’m a total novice at this blog thing
- Blogs appear to have evolved in to something way more complicated than actually makes sense to me
- I am definitely going to be using Postgres going forward (SQLite is different enough to be annoying without providing any benefits that I can determine)
- Typo is currently set up to do far too much logging
- Ruby gems brings back frightening memories of CPAN
- Given how often I’ve heard Rails folks rail against the many frameworks of Java, it’s amusing to see just how many such frameworks are used by Rails
- Despite all of it’s other features, it’s not immediately obvious how to add spelling and grammar checking to Typo. You’d think this would be a priority (well, maybe only if your spelling and grammar is as bad as mine).
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It seems like it would be a cop-out for something named “Typo” to have spelling or grammar checking!
Also, it occurs to me that the ads on first-time blogs might as well be directed at the author rather than any potential readers, since most page views are probably going to be by the author anyway!
Exactly. The cool thing is one could come up with this logic statistically without having to really identify it as a trend.