Jason Slater Weblog

If you are interested in Alexa you may have noticed that various web site rankings have changed - and some by quite a large margin.
Recently I wrote about Alexa (Alexa - traffic ranking) and wondered whether the toolbar data collection requirement really gave a relevant indication of web site reach (especially given the complications of some [...]

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Joanna Young recently posed the question “In 30 words or less … What does powerful writing mean to you?” on her Confident Writing Blog. I have been pondering this interesting challenge for a short while and initially I came up with:
“Powerful writing is expressing an important thing in the fewest, clearest, most emotive and compelling [...]

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I do try and avoid “me too” posts wherever possible but I do feel that this particular issue is important to Wordpress users (which I have been talking a lot about recently) and as such it needs to get to the user base as quickly as possible. A recent article in Technorati has highlighted that [...]

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For a while now I’ve included Alexa traffic rank on my Blog at www.jasonslater.co.uk as a widget and I’ve been wondering whether it really serves any useful purpose (the widget not the Blog!). When I first started out Blogging I was interested in how I was doing and whether I was reaching the potential readership I [...]

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Tom Krazit recently posted “Symbian CEO pitches middle ground between iPhone, Android” on the CNET news.com site which is well worth a read if you have an interest in mobile telephony.  Symbian is a dominant player in Europe on mobile phones but it looks like they may have their work cut out if they are [...]

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