besides wondering how this ended up in peterme's referrer logs, i'm curious whether they're making money at it. 08:01 pm

well, direct from the source, andrew says that pitas and diaryland combined have over 100k members. 60k is starting to seem like it may actually be a low estimate. scary. 02:55 pm

alex says he has it on good authority that pitas has several thousand more users than blogger, and diaryland is bigger than both combined. maybe 60k weblogs isn't such an unrealistic number. 10:18 am

Net Myths You Should Ignore. i think people should expecially listen to no. 2. via evhead. 01:28 pm

call me a print design snob, but i find it scary that an article about Designing Logos for Web and Print is mostly a lesson in the basics of print design (i.e. the difference between spot color and four color printing and whether to use vector or pixel-based art). unfortunately, that article is going to make any amateur web design think they can also be a print designer without any experience or understanding of print design. via tremendo. 01:17 pm

reading joe's bit on ISSN for Weblogs, i noticed the assertion "...over 60,000 weblogs in publication today..." it made me wonder where that number came from. which made me remember that pyra announced that blogger had over 60,000 users. but, 60k users != 60k weblogs.

so, i went to the source. i figure anything that hasn't been updated in the last 2 weeks has probably been dropped. which means that blogger (including blogspot) has almost 16k active weblogs. i'm guessing, but with the other numbers below, i figure there's no more than 20k weblogs.

other interesting numbers: 24k blogger blogs (that's a mouthful) have been updated in the last 30 days, but only 12k have been updated in the last week. there are 15k editthispage weblogs. bloghop lists 7k, but it is culled from blogger and weblogs.com so there's overlap, which means there's probably only ~1-2k of non-blogger weblogs. blogstart has about 800 weblogs, and my portal has 1300. unfortunately, there's no way to tell how many of the non-blogger ones are actually active and how much overlap there is in the listings. 12:46 pm

sorry for the lack of updates lately. first i was too busy working to blog, and now i'm too busy goofing off. 11:55 am

not only do i get spam from HootingOwl search engine, they were nice enough to tell me that i came up on a search for "yellow emperor eugene oregon". 11:30 am

pretty soon i'm gonna have to give up keeping this list. the count is now at 41 thanks to john, jeff and david. as soon as amazon does it, it's all over. 11:27 am

Sex in Videoames is a really interesting 3-part (2, 3) series on how sex could be incorporated into video games, without being sleazy. via taylor. 01:23 pm

thanks to winston, Odigo has been added to the list. 11:41 am

usabilitysucks has been added to the list. 01:51 pm

it gets even worse. jason points out that the winner stole their design and code from ibm. nothing like winning an award for theft... 01:03 pm

inc. web awards 2000. testimony to the sad state of the web. some of these sites are truly hideous. 10:35 am

oh wait, i can't add usability expert to my resume, because "... usability people are not designers..." 02:46 pm

since when did usability expert = information designer? come to think of it, when did usability guru = forward-thinking tech expert? i guess this means i can add "usability expert" to my resume since the reverse must be true, information designer = usabilty expert. sadly, i don't think i'd be able to get $20k a pop for speaking. via xblog. 02:15 pm

i just added 6 more to the list thanks to Tim and jordan. bringing the count up to 30. 12:40 pm

mike's having an anniversary, and dug up a quote from stating the obvious' my ass is a weblog essay. greg predicted an inevitable winnowing within a year. 11:11 pm

the cut-off corner design count is up to 20. 24 if you count all the cnet sites. 01:37 pm

the latest issue of digital web magazine is out. there's an article about getting and dealing with clients. i'm happy to say that we do all of those things, except the part about telling the client you want to do their project. 01:32 pm

ugh. Sarcasm, irony are out; sincerity, chivalry are in. maybe in the warped minds of tv and film. i really like the rave example as proof of the new forward-thinking attitude. of *course* everybody at raves loves each other, they're on ecstacy. i think it's more likely to prove that people need to take drugs in order to escape from the harsh reality of sarcasm and irony. via taylor. 02:26 pm

The Browser War: Nobody's fault but yours. without writing a huge essay, i can't even go into how wrong this article is. the two biggest problems i see. the assumption that your ceo who has ie installed on his desktop doesn't have aol at home. the assertion that web apps aren't web pages. if web apps aren't composed of web pages, they're not web apps. 04:08 pm

lance, as always, manages to say it all so well. this *is* how the weblog cabal feels. 03:53 pm

V.C. Forsaking the Internet. apparently, it's all the vc's fault. they dumped huge amounts of money encouraging companies to get big fast, then bailed on all but a few. not that it'll affect the vc's at all.

"Despite all the pain caused... the venture capitalists in the middle are largely going to emerge wealthier than ever."

via peterme. 03:44 pm

i forgot to mention yesterday that the antarcti.ca app only works in ie5. sorry. 03:41 pm

the fame of blogger has finally taken it's toll. their iis server can't take the load any more. i may be going back to hand-coding. at least until i have time to build my own system or their's get ported to a system that can take the load. 03:37 pm

Dot-com doors slamming shut . interesting:

"Webmergers found that of the 130 doomed dot-coms, 98 were consumer-oriented companies -- mostly e-tailers."

12:46 pm

i realized this morning that i probably should have put a disclaimer on this: i didn't write it. i got it off the email circuit and rather than create more fram (amusing as it is), i decided to post it. besides, i don't know half your email addresses. 12:09 pm

reading through the same old cabal arguments over at metafilter, i saw the word fluff. obviously, it wasn't used in this sense, but all i could think of was how yummy a fluffernutter would be right now. the marshmallow stuff they sell here in california is just *not* the same as true fluff. sigh. 05:58 pm

tom writes: " I think the time has come to accept that people who write weblogs are, at the end of the day, just acting as writers. And that writers will always care about how their work is doing, the people they feel in competition with, as well as be in awe of their forebears and heroes. These things are not just going to end because we're writing in a new form, for a new medium." 05:42 pm

as soon as the first millionaire asks for this, it won't just be disabled people getting computer brain implants. 05:29 pm

Midlife crisis hits young dot-commers. 05:24 pm

ok, so i'm completely skeptical about 3d and literal maps of the web, which is why i disregarded antarcti.ca when i saw it. but when i followed dan's you are here link, i realized it was a little bit interesting. even the 3d stuff was intriguing, especially since eatonweb was an office building instead of a single story home. i can't see it being useful, but it is interesting. btw, you are here. 05:03 pm

the bite of the asp. i was just thinking about this the other day when blogger was having major server problems. what happens when the asp you're using abruptly closes it's doors? makes you think twice, doesn't it? 03:36 pm

What Is P2P? clay shirky does a pretty good job of explaining peer-to-peer. 03:20 pm

"no emailing during dinner". well, we always knew families in silicon valley are different than those in the rest of the country. 03:05 pm

part 2 in joe gillespie's logo design workshop. 02:54 pm

christopher finally put up a page for Team  & nbsp;. 02:35 pm

election silliness has begun. 02:33 pm

stupid human trick of the day: drive an 18-wheeler up a small, windy, two-lane road which has an extremely tight hair pin curve near the top. i'm still trying to figure out how they're going to get the truck out of there. 02:02 pm

this fun time-waster brought to you courtesy of lance. 04:37 pm

Cubism, Web-Browser Style. all i can say is that it's truly scary that someone thought this was a *good* idea. 04:25 pm

although clippen.com is only vaguely similar to clip2 (they deal with content whereas clip2 dealt with links), the verbiage and even a little bit of look and feel is very familiar. via ev. 02:16 pm

Surf like a Bushman. an interesting piece about how information foraging is similar to hunter-gatherer's food foraging. the marginal value theorem is something i've definitely experienced in my weblog reading habits.

"the optimal strategy is to move on when the rate of return from a particular patch falls below the average rate over the whole region."

via industrial flux. 02:08 pm

another testament to the mistake of changing a well-known company name. inprise is changing it's name back to borland. via flutterby. 01:36 pm

Deconstructing ‘You’ve Got Blog’. i always find it interesting to read explanations of why the mythical weblog cabal really exists. the thing i find amusing comes from the last two sentences where the author admits that if he was part of the so-called cabal, it would be a good thing rather than a bad one.

"Successful people remain successful. If I could get a piece of that action, I’d be right in there rootin’ them on."

via lake effect. 01:27 pm

well, netscape 6 has been released. unfortunately, i can't test it at all since it generates a nice error when it starts up on my win2k maching. you'd think that kind of error would have been caught by qa. they did qa it didn't they? 01:00 pm

Three Numbers That (Should) Have Nothing To Do With User Interface Design. a really well done article debunking the use of the magic number 7 +/- 2. via webword. 12:49 pm

i find the thought of the bay area hosting the olympic games extremely scary. i can't imagine anything worse. via lilly. 01:15 pm

oh, almost forgot, december 1 is a Day Without Weblogs. 01:06 pm

U.S. Income Tax Burden. it's quite scary how much of the tax burden the top 10% income earners shoulder. now i understand why the wealthy usually get tax breaks. they should. via signal vs. noise. 12:59 pm

Monopoly dot com edition. for some unknown reason, i'd really like to play this version. 12:29 pm

uidesign.net feedback has quite a few interesting responses to articles, including one by jef raskin on an interview with alan cooper. 12:09 pm

some unknown person was kind enough to put the new yorker article up on the web. for those of us who don't read any articles unless they're online, but were truly interested in this one. 05:30 pm

as keith claimed, this is truly addictive. The Reflex Tester. 01:06 pm

flooding can be a pretty dangerous thing. 12:42 pm

zzpost is a tool similar to blogger, but done with jsp. 12:17 pm

Second sight. "Bring your technology to the human being, and not the other way around." i've never heard the inch devices, foot devices, and yard devices thing before, but it makes sense to me. via industrialflux. 03:34 pm

IBM lays claim to industry's clearest computer display. drool... 200ppi, 4.5 times clearer than hdtv... i'll just start saving now. 02:24 pm

wash and wear gadgets. cloth keyboards that you can stuff in your pocket sound cool, but smart car seats? are you supposed to wiggle your butt in order to dial phone numbers? 01:19 pm

snicker. gotta love the parodies. 12:54 pm

i've never truly understood the value of the electoral college system. this article explains why districting makes your vote more powerful. something actually broke thru my complete indifference to politics. 12:37 pm

logo design workshop. a nice primer for logo design. via xblog. 12:46 pm

a little late, but holy sh*t. mona lego is flat out amazing. thanks heather. 12:28 pm

What can we learn from Jakob Nielsen? philip greenspun picks out the interesting stuff from designing web usability. 12:12 pm

you have to visit this page with ie. maybe i just find it amusing because i'm a diehard netscape user. 03:26 pm

an article about the contest, written by two of the other team. i know this is supposed to be their take on the contest, but the whole article is just one long piece of self-promotion for c2x2. i'm all for self-promotion, but it's a bit excessive. 11:58 am

oh god. another person who's decided to set out "definitive spelling rules. hard to take seriously from someone whose writing could have used some major editing for spelling mistakes. 01:31 pm

heh. i always love it when someone else (matt) does a write-up of an event (cool-site-in-a-day) so i don't have to. the only thing i have to add is that matt's team did an amazing amount of backend work. i don't know how they managed to do it in such a short time. 11:58 am

just got done walking around the expo floor. i was surprised by how predominant 3d was. still not convinced it'll go anywhere. some cool apps tho. 11:19 am

yay, our team won the cool site contest! chris, porter, winnie, jon and tony were all great. we had a lot of fun. 08:27 pm

this cut-off corner trend is getting really bad. even banner ads have them. thanks john. 10:49 am