Heh, one day off and people check for your life signs? I wonder how many people just helplessly refresh your web site every day hoping for another post?

Yeah, seriously, how many people do you get here, on average, to bother putting up Google Ads?

ROFL!!!!!!

Same as every other blogger: 0 traffic.

I’m guessing Vlad gets a lot more because he is a real person that actually knows his shit. Not to mention all the “King of all SBS media”

A lot more people than you’d imagine. Vladville had 36,000 sessions yesterday (Monday) with 0 new posts. It averages from 30-50,000 unique visits a day. That is Vladville alone, no SBS Show traffic. This doesn’t take into account RSS traffic which is hard to estimate because I don’t know how many people collect that and on what interval - every hour? every day?

It’s a little intense to be honest. Not only do I get pinged when there are no blog posts but I’m also called out for stuff like “When is the next SBS Show going to be online”, “How come you haven’t updated the QuickVlad blog in a while”, “Hey, can you post this in your wiki” in addition to all the other IT question bs I get 24/7.

Susan Bradley suggested I get a different perfume as mine must have some fermones that attract a massive herd of geeks - she apparently does not get as many support emails as I do.

The WEIRDEST shit that has ever happened was the SBS Show announcement. I write the XML feed for the SBS Show by hand and it requires a file size for the enclosure. What I usually do is upload the show and get the size on there. Well, someone was apparently so anxious to get their hands on the SBS Show that they were trying the filename over and over and over until they finally struck it - and then posted it to the Yahoo newsgroups. Now I don’t know if it was just a shere coincidence or just no life at all but people either like this blog or are into stalking. Not sure which, not sure if I want to know either
-Vlad

hey man…don’t knock the google ads!

they pay for sbs show’s dental plan.

36,000? Damn man, is there a porn site somewhere in here that I am not aware of? So that Google Adsense is bringing in some sweet sweet dough?

Thats a lot of traffic alright but when you consider that most of the net is just boards and non-doers its not a surprise. I don’t even bother looking at Microsoft anymore because they seem to have cornered a niche in marketing-speak and beta-ville which are not very useful to engineers. I’ve been a fan of the SBS blog until this weekend when they seem to have dropped their technical stuff in favor of fluff.

Yeah, whats the deal with the SBS blog? Did they drink the koolade?

LOL. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. The SBS Blog is combining two efforts - one from the support group and one from the dev folks. You see, when we do something like this, it offers you “one stop shopping” versus having to read a bunch of splintered feeds from essentially the same group of people. The alternative is that we have a bunch of separate blogs, duplicate entries, occassionally someone contradicts the other person, and it prevents the complaints about “there being too much information on the internet - msft can’t even give me a single offering”. Either way, I get unproductive feedback, so I chose the way that works better for the largest number of contributors
Seriously folks, if 3 or 4 posts on a single blog that don’t interest you are too much cause information overload or you have trouble filtering them you’re in trouble. It’s only going to get worse across all fields. Anyone with a keyboard and an ounce of effort can and is publishing today. Personally, I aggregate close to 150 feeds. Of those, I may read 50 *items* in a day (and by “read” I mean “mostly scan the first paragraph and move on”). 2 or 3 of those may be worthy of blog post or forwarding on to an email audience. The name of the game is being the master of your information. If you don’t need it, move on. I promise you that the level of technical quality on my blog won’t decrease.

Great to see that so many people hang on your very words, Vlad…

I was not hanging enough, as I missed the DC live meeting…

It would be great if the DC group posts the webcast for the rest of us to hear. I really want to know what I can do with 100 smackers to improve my shop!

As to the makeup of your odor and its love potion effect on computer addicts everywhere… Love is a wonderful thing…

agreed - lets get a copy of that webcast?