Re: Is A2K Losing Some of its Luster?
Damn, having spent a couple years with my primary job being manipulating internet traffic I can't help but get sucked into your alexa geekiness nimh...
nimh wrote:
Yeah, true, I was going on intuition ... what, with increasing percentages of people in an increasing number of countries getting online, you'd have thought traffic would be continually expanding?
<thinks>
Google.com, is that just the English-language Google? Perhaps it's that just the American/Western traffic is levelling out now, as pretty much everyone who's gonna be online is now already? (I mean, levelling out in frequency, not in volume, cause with ever more people downloading audio, video etc that should still be going up and up.) That it is that all the new people getting online are now concentrated in non-English markets?
I have no idea...
It's pretty simple dude. The visitors aren't the only thing that grows. The destinations are growing in number as well. ;-)
nimh wrote:
(Yes, I realise that the graph seems to indicate that #7 and 8 actually have a higher traffic than # 5 and 6, but I swear, Alexa ranks Myspace as 5, and qq.com as #8)
<looks up>
Yeah, trippy. No, no evidence of the Internet ever growing ...
Odd?
The alexa rank is a 3 month average. The end of the graph isn't reflected yet.
As to the internet growing, I don't get why you are trying to measure that through the alexa stats. Nothing they have in their free statistics will show you that growth.
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But back to the ole "is site-x going downhill" internet staple...
A2K's luster to each individual will wax and wane for reasons that have nothing to do with A2K, just as it will with anything that they use more than is ideal to maintain allure.
Right now, I have a new tool/toy in the Motorola Q and it's the mobile device I've long been dreaming of. I make a living off the net and the more mobile I go the more fun and freedom I can have. I have new ways to communicate with others and am using it heavily in this first week of having it.
Thing is, I've done this gig before. I am perpetually wired with technology (ever heard of a P.A.N?) from work and personal work and have the most pda, the thinnest real laptop and previous versions of all these gadgets (been in this gig since I first used networked computing). I have a history of technolgy use and I know exactly what is going to happen.
At some point, the new tool will lose its luster, not literally as my "old" tools and toys are never scratched or anything, they are "like new". It will lose its luster not because of any change in the object, but because of changes in me, in my mind and my perception and in a few days I won't use it half as much and later still I will find it boring and it will just become the useful tool it is instead of the instantly-gratifying toy it's currently pulling double-duty as.
I personally think the current a2k sucks, but that's because
I have changed. I even think some of the rules I helped write are ass-backwards. This relfects a change in me, not the site.
Others may be enjoying the heck out of it and such is life. As to the "site introspections", it's mostly a form of jonesing.....
