Archive - 2008
July 20th
Cape Cod Whale Watch, Part 1
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Sun, 07/20/2008 - 15:22
This is part one of the Whale Watch that Kim, Fiona and I took out of Provincetown, MA with Kim's family
July 19th
More Alexa Bashing
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Sat, 07/19/2008 - 21:45Turnip of Power has a blog post up about Alexa as a random number generator.
They write: Now Alexa has changed their algorithm, making it worse than useless. I’m surprised my site doesn’t record a negative score seeing how off base their estimates are.
Well, I thought I should check to see how my site did during my vacation. Sure enough, both Google Analytics and Quantcast showed my traffic drop to about a quarter what it was before I left for vacation.
At the same time, Alexa has shown a significant increase in traffic to my site.
So, I think that Turnip of Power is wrong. Alexa isn't a random number generator. It is showing a strong negative correlation to actual traffic.
UPDATE: This is a test update.
Back Home
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Sat, 07/19/2008 - 19:56Back home after a weeklong vacation on Cape Cod. There are around 5,000 messages in my inbox and many comments and connections to follow up with on many different sites. It was a great vacation, but if I don’t respond for a few days, I hope you will understand why.
I have taken many of the Cape Cod posts off of the front page. You can find them in the personal section of the site. Once I get a little more caught up, I hope to post some more complete summaries of the vacation as well as a collection of pictures we took at various locations.
July 18th
More Turtles
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Fri, 07/18/2008 - 11:09
On our last full day on Cape Cod we stopped at a fresh water pond and say a snapping turtle
July 17th
Surf's up
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Thu, 07/17/2008 - 16:23
We spent little time body surfing before going to a quieter beach. Some beaches were closed due to the surf
