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By far the favored blog traffic monitor is Sitemeter. Bloggers rely on it to keep track of simple site statistics: number of visitors, location of visitors, in-clicks, out-clicks, etc. They have nearly 1 million accounts.
This weekend, Sitemeter attempted a major overhaul of their service. It went from a simple and useful (but inelegant) style to a complicated and useless (but gorgeous) style.
Needless to say, bloggers were pist. In the end, Sitemeter rolled back to their original format and all of us bloggers could sleep well last night.
But in my own search to find other bloggers who were in the same pissy mood against Sitemeter as myself, I came across this post with some very amusing comments:
Palladian said… There’s a difference! SiteMeter offered change but it did not offer Change You Can Believe In™! SiteMeter also did not offer Hope™.
UWS guy said… SiteMeter was a maverick. In their recklessness they tried to mimic a popular and hip competitor (google) they tried to add “change” to their ticket. It was a poor substitute and ultimately was rejected by the majority.
Henry said…If Obama promised to fix Sitemeter, make it new and better, would you believe him? What if just promised to fix the health care system?
Christy said… You hated the change. Sitemeter rolled it back. Progress lies elsewhere
When political analogies start to creep into techie news…. I never ceased to be amazed by cleverness.
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