http://xblog.xman.org/articles/2006/09/06/observations-in-the-first-10-minutes en-us 40 hey, if it has a capital X in it, it has to be great! <p>So, my first observation is that Google&#8217;s AdSense crawler appears to not be getting the joke. So far it has selected ads with titles like &#8220;Get Paid To Create Hubs&#8221; and &#8220;Blog Advertising&#8221;.</p> <p>I guess the ad selection isn&#8217;t entirely stupid, as I can only imagine how many first time bloggers expect to make millions out of the public&#8217;s intense interest in their thoughts (because in blog world, unlike reality, everyone is interesting).</p> <p>The other observations I have are:</p> <ul> <li>I&#8217;m a total novice at this blog thing</li> <li>Blogs appear to have evolved in to something way more complicated than actually makes sense to me</li> <li>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)</li> <li>Typo is currently set up to do <em>far</em> too much logging</li> <li>Ruby gems brings back frightening memories of CPAN</li> <li>Given how often I&#8217;ve heard Rails folks rail against the many frameworks of Java, it&#8217;s amusing to see just how many such frameworks are used by Rails</li> <li>Despite all of it&#8217;s other features, it&#8217;s not immediately obvious how to add spelling and grammar checking to Typo. You&#8217;d think this would be a priority (well, maybe only if your spelling and grammar is as bad as mine).</li> </ul> Wed, 06 Sep 2006 03:28:00 -0700 urn:uuid:30ffcbe7-61f2-480c-9833-369b9fe813e2 Christopher Smith http://xblog.xman.org/articles/2006/09/06/observations-in-the-first-10-minutes Errata blogging ruby typo http://xblog.xman.org/articles/trackback/2 <p>Exactly. The cool thing is one could come up with this logic statistically without having to really identify it as a trend.</p> Thu, 07 Sep 2006 20:14:14 -0700 urn:uuid:d55b919e-b878-4f43-85d7-bb727e250bdc http://xblog.xman.org/articles/2006/09/06/observations-in-the-first-10-minutes#comment-51 <p>It seems like it would be a cop-out for something named &#8220;Typo&#8221; to have spelling or grammar checking! <p> 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!</p></p> Thu, 07 Sep 2006 09:30:48 -0700 urn:uuid:115ce37f-613a-4182-bf30-5a4e1ab07a63 http://xblog.xman.org/articles/2006/09/06/observations-in-the-first-10-minutes#comment-143