Archive for May, 2006
Having Added Pheedo Ads…
… your RSS or Atom feed reader will probably re-display the last 10 posts. This sort of massive, feed-disrupting change is something I try to avoid. Feeds are an important part of blog reading, and as more readers are subscribing to this blog via the feed, and being the entrepreneurial type, I wanted to experiment [...]
Web Site Mis-Marketing
I recently read on Yaro Starak’s excellent Entrepreneur’s Journey blog a guest piece by John Webster on analyzing web stats. I’m peeved. He didn’t actually say anything wrong, and he is the expert. In fact, I don’t take issue with any of his guidelines. But I do take issue with his advice.
Why Small Is Better Than Big
Somewhere between 9 employees and 50, the job becomes a burden. The best company I ever worked for was around 20 or 30 people. (It varied over the years.) After it ended, I said I wanted a break, a normal job for a stable employer. Be careful what you wish for; you might actually get [...]
Professionals Should Make Mistakes
We usually think of professionals as being people who don’t make mistakes. Amateurs make mistakes, because they treat the work as a hobby, rather than as a profession. But ironically, professionals probably make more mistakes than amateurs do, and that’s how it should be, though different mistakes.