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Monthly Archives: March 2005

Outsourcing to WA.

Our great local newspaper, The West Australia, has an article today on Bloggers. Being a good WA promoter, they’ve used an article from a good WA journalist. WA, as in Washington. That’s right the one in the U.S.

Rather than write something locally about the burgeoning local Blogger community, they’ll just republish an article from the other side of the planet.

Great one. Before you know it guys, you’ll have outsourced everything to the U.S. journalists and be absorbed into Googlezon.

Microsoft with $850,000 Worth Of Sun.

Microsoft just received $850,000 worth of Sun Microsystem’s servers and storage. Proof the relationship is still barreling ahead.

All details, and photos at Enterprise Engineering Center WebLog.

Link via Scoble.

Slashdot Effect, A Historical Term.

Slashdot’s effects have diminished. Not surprising really, given slashdot’s news is always a day or two behind the rest of the blogosphere. It’s not often they break news these days.

A year ago, Slashdot contributed 5.5% of all traffic going to tech news sites like CNET (CNET ), Wired, and Gizmodo. But by last month, its power had fallen considerably, estimates Bill Tancer, an analyst at online measurement company Hitwise in Redwood City, Calif. When Tancer measured traffic going from Slashdot to several recent stories to which it linked, he found that, in one case, Slashdot increased a site’s traffic by 4%. In the case of one Reuters wire-service story, no one clicked on the link at all.

From BusinessWeek.

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