Bananaranha: the month in review
Filed under Bananaranha on November 13th, 2007
My, how time flies. It’s a couple of days less than a full month that this blog operates. Where by “month” I mean an arbitrary 30 day period, since I didn’t have the foresight to launch this blog on a 1st.
Even at this early stage I have had several thousand visitors. Of course, submitting most of the early posts to Digg’s Apple section didn’t hurt. Digg’s stance of this is uncertain (”While we welcome users to submit their own content, overdoing it often incites the users to mark the user as a spammer, the site as a spam site, and otherwise decent content as blogspam.“), so I took my chance. Well, the worst did not happen in my case, so I guess some people found my posts worthwhile. After all, they were all relevant to Apple, and better written that a lot of the Apple stuff that’s out there. Of course, I could be biased ;-)
Anyway, I stopped submitting every other story of mine to Digg (which sounds a little silly, patting myself in the back and all). I now have one of those fancy “Digg This” button, so you can do it, if you like what you’re reading. But digg is not the best traffic source. Content is the best traffic source. You see, I found out that while my rants and speculations get a cursory glance, what really draws people in (and back again) are the helpful articles, the tips and tricks, the how-tos. Expect to see more of those (intermingled with my rants and wild speculations, because, hey, they are the reason I started this blog: to voice my frustations and expectations about Apple and software in general).
Here’s a run down of what I’ve written so far:
October 17th, Hello and Welcome [introductory post, nothing to see here]
October 17th, Top 10 Leopard features (in order of importance) [a rundown of my favorite leopard features]
October 18th, Linux advocacy considered silly [some random guy bashing Quicksilver in favor of the command line]
October 19th, Delicious iPhone [a very cool idea for a Delicious Library app for the iPhone]
October 20th, .Mac 2.0 - Turning dot mac to a successful online community [my ideas on what Apple should do with .Mac]
October 21st, It’s time TextEdit.app gets some love [A rant about the sorry state of this unloved application]
October 22nd, Flickr invites are teh suck [Do you hate flickr badges (”invites”)? I hate them more]
October 22nd, Leopard Gold Master last minute changes? [Gruber reports on Apple fixing the ugliness issue with Leopard Dock used on the side]
October 23rd, Leopard Only Applications, the first bunch… [A list of applications pre-announced to be Leopard only]
October 23rd, More Leopard Only Stuff: Panic [Panic announces that CandyBar 3.0 will be Leopard only].
October 25th, What comes after Leopard? Musings on OS X 10.6 [Musings on the next version of OS X, based on solid facts and wild speculation]
October 28th, haxies: Mess with the O.S, die like the rest [A rant about those distateful application “enhancers” that have bitten some people upgrading to Leopard]
October 29th, I can has Office Suite? [An interestring observation about Apple’s office suite strategy]
October 31st, Enough with the Java drama queens! [Some thoughts on the delay of Java 6 for the Mac]
November 2nd, On the curious persistence of certain names such as Amiga and Napster… [What’s in a name? Why do names like Amiga and Napster stuck when the thing they reffer to have long since become obsolete?]
November 2nd, Why can’t I bookmark an iTunes Store page? [Why, Apple, why?]
November 5th, Culture in the age of the blog [A nice interview with mr. Doctorow]
November 6th, Blogger Templates are teh suck [A rant about the blogger templating system. Apparently, it sucks donkeys balls].
November 7th, How I got MySQL and PHP running on Leopard (in 3 easy steps) [A short tutorial on enabling MySQL and PHP on OS X 10.6]
November 8th, Naked Light : Photoshop killer or one more mid-level image editor? [Reporting on another one of those OS X image editors]
November 10th, QuickLook chokes on BOM-less text files [Hope they fix this soon, although it will only bite those with non-latin files]
November 11th, How to fix the Leopard GUI ugliness (dock, menubar, stacks) [All the available options for reversing some of the Apple-inflicted ugliness of Leopard]
So, there you have it. If you really liked any of the above or if you really hated one (now, why would you do that?), please, do add your comment below. I’d like to here what you think of Bananaranha in general.
Now, off to the next post.
