huffpo drives me crazy but it's like a sore tooth. i can't stop messing with it.
ShirleyGoodnessanMercy
· 1 year ago
At AOL.com they are saying that there has been a "SUDDEN CHANGE" in the polls and that Obama and McCain are dead even now! 44 to 43%. Is that possible?
Older_Wiser
· 1 year ago
Of course not. You know that Mary Cheney is a VP over there, don't you? One of the worst run ISPs ever. Overloaded and always knocking you off.
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
No....Didn't Ablog post something on this yesterday? The sample had twice as many evangelicals as would be statistically possible, according to TPM.
John Aravosis
· 1 year ago
Yeah, that's the AP poll. We all think it's wrong. It's the ONLY poll showing that - and all the states polls, and national polls, show McCain FAR behind. Also, in a nutshell, the AP poll is including twice the number of born-again/evangelicals - i.e., rather than have them make up 23% of the total number of people polled (that's the percentage of them that voted in 2004), the AP poll, oddly, is using 44% evangelicas/born-agains. And guess who they're voting for.
IamSmartypants
· 1 year ago
Congratulations to you and the rest of the Americablog team. You were my gateway blog and I've been reading you daily for over five years. Blogs suck up a couple of hours of every day and I blame, err..., thank you for that.
I applaud Arianna for what she's accomplished with her web site. She has built up quite an outfit there in such a short time.
Having said that, I still can't stand it and very rarely even check on it. When I do it's usually because of a link from some other site. I can't quite figure out exactly what I don't like about it but it just seems to be too "corporate" feeling for my liking. Who knows. I can't stand Rawstory or Buzzflash either and they are miniscule compared to HuffPo.
I understand it's not trying to be a blog and is kind of more like a news aggregator, but other big sites seem to pull that off better. Hell, even FARK does that and still keeps it entertaining. Just don't get that from HuffPo.
Oh, and John, you've done good too. Congrats!
Indigo
· 1 year ago
Way off topic from the AP: "Greenspan said he had made a "mistake" in believing that banks in operating in their self-interest would be sufficient to protect their shareholders and the equity in their institutions."
That's quite a departure from his usual comments. I can accept his confession and forgive him but that doesn't change the situation. I'm looking forward to learning how he plans to make amends.
Older_Wiser
· 1 year ago
Three little words for AG: No shit, Sherlock. Make that a huge mistake...
KerrynowCampau
· 1 year ago
I would like him and his wife to make amends by giving up what ever assests/cash they have to pay back taxpayers for the bank bailouts and then try to get by with minumum wage jobs.
EmGD
· 1 year ago
I know how it is. We web bigshots have it rough. We went from 200 visitors a day to 300 and I'm debating whether to buy the regular caviar or the extra fancy caviar. Is this really a "buy a yacht" type of year? Perhaps I should gamble that the site hits 400 visitors, I could use a castle estate overseas for vacations.
LOL I was at a few hundred visitors a day when I first started too. I took a number of 'scoops' to get more traffic. It'll come.
tbhull
· 1 year ago
Congratulations!
This site, imo, in content, discussion, tolerance and format has been and is the best around.
BTW, Crooks and Liars just adopted the message format brought here long ago by Disqus. Eschaton not far away.
John Aravosis
· 1 year ago
Well, I'm still not sure people love it as a format, but if others use Disqus, then it increases the number of people who already have a sign on, understand how to use it, so perhaps that will help all of us get more commenters.
tbhull
· 1 year ago
I just heard the most vile and offensive Sarah Palin joke and will share it if anyone wants to see it.
Ben Dover
· 1 year ago
Congrats ABlog on the numbers!
Now, being the type person that STILL has a vcr that constantly flashes 12:00...what is the difference between the term unique visits and any other type? It's the terminology that I really have no understanding.
John Aravosis
· 1 year ago
Unique visits are, to the best of our ability to count, actual individual visitors during that time period. Meaning, if 5 people visit my blog during one month. Persons A, b, c, d, and e. And they're the only five people. Then I have 5 unique visits, or unique vistiors, or "uniques" for short, that month. But if each of those people visit my site ten times during the month, then I have 5 people times 10 visits each, or 50 "visits" or "visitors" that month. Services like Sitemeter, which a lot of us use, try to winnow down the visits to uniques, by using cookies and things, but it's not always 100% accurate. Google Analytics is consider "more" accurate - ad buyers, and others, like it when hear Google Analytics, among other services.
So, that's the difference between "visitors" and "unique visitors."
One other point you didn't ask, but a lot of people do: What are "hits"? Hits are an old term that is REALLY deceiving. On my home page, for example, every time one person visits there are perhaps 20 hits, if not more. The text is one hit, each image on the page counts as an individual hit, each ad, etc. So basically, you visit once, but I get 20 hits. That's why "hits" are probably the least accurate measure of traffic.
So always ask for "unique" visitors - the number will be smaller than "visitors," but it will also be far more accurate.
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 1 year ago
Guttenberg invented movable type which allowed the populace to read and eventually led to newspapers. Which eventually led to the Enlightenment. Let history note here that Ablog was part of the new revolution in democratic ideals which stopped the fascists. I am predicting a bloodbath week after next.
Ben Dover
· 1 year ago
I can't wait to see all the helicopters leaving Washington DC rooftops during the evacuation of the neo-cons.
That's gonna be some kind of fun!
KerrynowCampau
· 1 year ago
Congrats John Aravosis for making the list!
I know I can't stay away from Americablog for too long.....
frau sally benz
· 1 year ago
well damn, way to crush my excitement over almost reaching 4k visits period. ever.
but whatevs, congrats, i love this blog!
tbhull
· 1 year ago
This is Barack Obama at his best and beautiful oratory:
Guess Drudge will have to increase traffic by putting up a few more flashing red lights.
(Isn't that the cheesiest thing you ever saw?)
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
If you want to get your brand out to a huge, progressive, well-educated, and well-off audience, now is the time and here is the place.
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And if you want to waste your money on underemployed morons who keep their cars on blocks in front of their crappy ass houses, Drudge is always around.
bumpkis
· 1 year ago
IIRC...DRUDGE increased his "page refresh" speed a few months ago and that is what is driving his numbers up....
Hanlon
· 1 year ago
It really is something. I'm not up on this level but my site's been pulling 800-ish unique visitors a day this past few months, my latest monthly totals sitting nearly 20,000 unique.
I come in and out on this site, but damned if it doesn't have a great balance between frequent updates and great analysis.
John Aravosis
· 1 year ago
Thanks Zach. Well that's what we try to do, at least. Add some kind of analysis that adds something to the story. The updates are a bit more frequent than normal because of the impending election - we try to be more analysis than breaking news, as you can get breaking news at actual news sites.
Hanlon
· 1 year ago
Well you have to remember that blogs aren't just for "breaking" news, they're also for filtering.
My Google Reader has somewhere in the area of 40 feeds on it, only about six of which are blogs (this one included). Politics and blogging are something I do on the side currently, so while I wish I could dedicate more time to sifting through UPI/NYT/Bloomberg/AP/WaPo/BBC feeds, I readily admit that sometimes sweeping through blogs such as here helps me find what I might have missed while trying to slog through all my news sites.
So it's not just the analysis, bloggers also function to bring focus to the stories that need it. Think about how many buried stories have been culled out of various news outlets by bloggers only to turn into the headlines the next day.
EDIT: Jeezus could I have abused the word 'blogger' any more in that post? :P
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_rOCDG_btk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S17ay36jvQM
Having said that, I still can't stand it and very rarely even check on it. When I do it's usually because of a link from some other site. I can't quite figure out exactly what I don't like about it but it just seems to be too "corporate" feeling for my liking. Who knows. I can't stand Rawstory or Buzzflash either and they are miniscule compared to HuffPo.
I understand it's not trying to be a blog and is kind of more like a news aggregator, but other big sites seem to pull that off better. Hell, even FARK does that and still keeps it entertaining. Just don't get that from HuffPo.
Oh, and John, you've done good too. Congrats!
That's quite a departure from his usual comments. I can accept his confession and forgive him but that doesn't change the situation. I'm looking forward to learning how he plans to make amends.
http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/
This site, imo, in content, discussion, tolerance and format has been and is the best around.
BTW, Crooks and Liars just adopted the message format brought here long ago by Disqus. Eschaton not far away.
Now, being the type person that STILL has a vcr that constantly flashes 12:00...what is the difference between the term unique visits and any other type? It's the terminology that I really have no understanding.
So, that's the difference between "visitors" and "unique visitors."
One other point you didn't ask, but a lot of people do: What are "hits"? Hits are an old term that is REALLY deceiving. On my home page, for example, every time one person visits there are perhaps 20 hits, if not more. The text is one hit, each image on the page counts as an individual hit, each ad, etc. So basically, you visit once, but I get 20 hits. That's why "hits" are probably the least accurate measure of traffic.
So always ask for "unique" visitors - the number will be smaller than "visitors," but it will also be far more accurate.
That's gonna be some kind of fun!
I know I can't stay away from Americablog for too long.....
but whatevs, congrats, i love this blog!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9OhVMHIuO4&eurl...
(Isn't that the cheesiest thing you ever saw?)
---------------
And if you want to waste your money on underemployed morons who keep their cars on blocks in front of their crappy ass houses, Drudge is always around.
I come in and out on this site, but damned if it doesn't have a great balance between frequent updates and great analysis.
My Google Reader has somewhere in the area of 40 feeds on it, only about six of which are blogs (this one included). Politics and blogging are something I do on the side currently, so while I wish I could dedicate more time to sifting through UPI/NYT/Bloomberg/AP/WaPo/BBC feeds, I readily admit that sometimes sweeping through blogs such as here helps me find what I might have missed while trying to slog through all my news sites.
So it's not just the analysis, bloggers also function to bring focus to the stories that need it. Think about how many buried stories have been culled out of various news outlets by bloggers only to turn into the headlines the next day.
EDIT: Jeezus could I have abused the word 'blogger' any more in that post? :P