well… that was fun…

Well, that was fun. I’m going to try, over the next couple of days, to close out my series of Apple Post Mortems. Right now, I think I have four pieces left:

Part 5: Problems I think Apple should fix and challenges Apple faces

Part 6: Should Apple blog? (Is S4e right?)

Part 7: The Marketshare “problem”, (aka, damn you, Mike spindler, or why Apple’s Marketshare only matters to analysts you shouldn’t listen to anyway)

Part 8: Where Apple fits into the big picture.

I’m also open to suggestions… feel free to send me email, or leave me comments here.

FWIW, when Scoble pointed to my site, I started getting about 1 week’s traffic per day. Not bad. But today, Daring Fireball linked in, and traffic from them is about 4X Scoble and Winer combined. Going back to friday, the most popular linking sites are:

daringfireball.net

http://scobleizer.wordpress.com

http://www.macsurfer.com

http://www.scripting.com

http://www.tuaw.com

About 20% of the incoming readers slipped off and looked at the front page of the blog, and about 15% actually viewed a page other than the linked page. Everyone else viewed the linked page and moved on.

The one big winner in all this is the Masked Blogger, where 17% of you clicked through onto his site, so if you folks didn’t know about him before, you do now. I think he owes me a beer or two for doing his publicity work for him…

Me? if a few of you stick around and join the conversation here, that’ll be awesome. I found the conversation to be interesting, and surprisingly few trolls needing to be ignored in either camp. I’ve pointed to some of the more interesting blogs that I discovered in all of this already, and will continue to do so, but I think this has pretty much been taken as far as it deserves to go… so onward into other stuff…

It’ll be interesting to see how the old baseline readership numbers and the new ones differ, once things settle down. (and the stats above are because I find them interesting, and because they probably say something; what they say, I don’t know, although I do find it interesting hat Daring Fireball isn’t on Technorati’s top 100, but generated such a wave of traffic (it is #52 on most favorited). Scoble’s blog is high up on both lists, but John Gruber’s blog drove the serious traffic. tend to thinik that this backs my thought that the way “popular” is being judged is wrong, given it’s an epoch-based number and not a rolling one. Or maybe not.

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