Shit! I hate to bitch, but I’d have used more expletives if I knew you were fucking tracking it. I mean I have my own hashtag, you bastards! 
(Nice to see “twat” made the cursebird list. Unfortunately, I only contributed to it in my dreams.)
Alexa revised their ranking system again. Data is now limited to the last six months.
I thought I’d look up my website.
As you can see, even in the last six months, we seem to be growing in the face of a declining social networking trend. That’s no surprise. we were the fastest growing social network in the United States last year in all categories (by percentage).
That’s good. But let’s look at the big boys.
Hmm, not even close (remember the graph is logarithmic). Well, at least with 19 places in the last three months, we’re still growing fast right?
There’s always a bigger fish. Congrats, Twitter.
It’s weird how worlds intersect. Here is some lobbycon dialog:
“I don’t know, but if you plot the points, there aren’t many intersections. I’ve noticed it on my Facebook: The Open Source world has different geeks, and then the Web 2.0 world is mixed up. Priorities are f’d—people like X, who are big in the Web 2.0 world, nobody knows here.”
“Web 2.0 is…not even geeks really.”
“If it were, every party would be like the Ars Technica/Gizmodo WWDC party.”
“Haha.”
It came out in conversation today if there were other Ruby on Rails sites bigger than Twitter. The answer is, yes.
A random post on my stalker feed brings me back of the last party
…
“Are you single?” It’s the second time at the party, Alex has asked that. The internal dialog is now in fine form.
This is San Francisco, shouldn’t you ask if I’m gay first?, “Stop trying to fill out my social networking registration page, Alex”
Somewhat less emphatically: “You are single?!” Then slightly more emphatically: “Terry is single”—as if repetition makes it true.
I’m in a relationship with my Nikon and it’s complicated. “My status is not some box you can check off,” I retort.
“Wait, you are single, aren’t you?” decidedly less emphatically.
That’s thrice! Damn Canon photogs! “You couldn’t even shoot my D3.” I laugh.
“Terry is single,” Alex declares to anyone who was interested. (Nobody was.)
Nelson Muntz voice: “Ha ha!” Maybe if you were a Nikon-toting hottie, I’d have given you a straight answer.
Now, in my defense, when it comes to that senseless brand war, I have to represent. But I admit that it was a bit harsh, especially since, as an event photographer himself, he must get asked my most-despised geek-party conversation starter an awful lot: “Who are you with?” (i.e. “Who are you shooting for so I know if I should do a posedown.”)
We hates it, my precious, yes we do.
Coincidentally, just that day, I devised a customer support answer tree to turn this question into a lethal conversation-killer:
A friend sent me this article with the comment, “I think you will enjoy reading this.”
I did. Thanks.
Zombie: What, oh what is this secret that you will never tell? Your status keeps threatening to not tell. It even reads “EVER!” Zombie: Muuuuuuuust knoooooooooow gosssssip! Zombie: p.s. Braaaaaaaaaaains
Pirate: I could tell you, but then I’d have to, you know, kill you. 
Pirate: Do you know what vegetarian zombie’s say? [More Zombie vs. Pirate after the jump.] Continue reading
The strange thing about search is it’s a lot like academia: full of assholes. I know, since I’m one of them. So I was trying to figure out why this twitter about my Keynote bothered me so:
“@tychay apparently serving red meat to the faithful at #phptek proving there are language Nazis on both sides. —tweet from a stream follower
Then it hit me. I act like an asshole, I’m probably an asshole, but never, not once, do I engage in personal attacks that aren’t obvious jokes. I don’t go up there like the founder of Ruby on Rails [Ed: corrected (see comments)] and in every talk say (to me):
Haha.
No, really!
That’s hilarious!
In my current talk I have a slide that says to the viewer that if they disagree they should give me a big “Fuck Y—.” on their blog. I suppose that’s a bit ironic since this is the same talk where people explicitly create F-bomb counters on IRC and and twitter.
[Ego, assholes, internet architecture, being wrong, and learning after the jump.] Continue reading
Because I work in social networking, people often ask me about advertising in social networks. For some reason, they don’t buy the obvious excuse that I’m an engineer, not a business person or entrepreneur. What do I know?
[The problem of advertising in social networking] Continue reading
I just get back from Amsterdam and two of our engineers are leaving Tagged and we have a lot of job openings.
One of the departing wrote an interesting e-mail on leaving which I’ll quote below and maybe it’ll give you an idea what it’s like working here. But first, some open job reqs…
[Tagged Jobs Reqs and farewell after the jump. Read on! It’s worth it.] Continue reading
