The Power of YouTube- March 27, 2008 I was looking at the most recent batch of Movers and Shakers today, and I noticed a site among the top three that is not in any way affiliated with March Madness. Once it caught my attention, I felt like digging in to see what was going on. The site is Avaaz.org and they're into global social justice issues, organizing online, that sort of thing. They have an international staff of campaigners,http://awis.blogspot.com/2008/03/power-of-youtube.html Madness, I Tell You- March 25, 2008 Looking at the graph of the top three Movers, I'm reminded of how my job in Web metrics has made me (slightly) cooler. There was honestly a time when I had no idea what March Madness was--none at all. I think I occasionally heard it and associated it with springlike things: allergies and short pants. One glance at this graph (or the previous years' versions of it), and I see two things:http://awis.blogspot.com/2008/03/madness-i-tell-you.html Oscars Always a Hit on the Web- March 4, 2008 Sometimes, when I look at Alexa's Movers and Shakers, I discover some hip new site everyone's clicking on. And sometimes, I look at the graph and realize, oh, yeah, the Oscars just happened.http://awis.blogspot.com/2008/03/oscars-always-hit-on-web.html |