What this site is worth…

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… according to Cyberwire’s Website Value Calculator.

Er, $1,543.

I’ll stick with the day jobs, then.

Just for comparison, Lorcan Dempsey’s Blog is ‘worth’ $124,069 and BoingBoing would apparently be a snip at $13,164,332.

Later… Martin Weller points out that Tony Hirst’s site is ‘worth’ $217,468, while his own could command $5,662.

James Cridland’s MediaUK site comes in at $263,691.

Interesting to see, also, that Quentin’s Blog — ‘value’ $1,443 — is down in the poverty zone with me.

Just as well that we don’t do it for the money!

Royal tribulations

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Oh the poor dears. First Harry is denied permission to offer himself for abduction in Iraq. And now his brother William (Wills to you) has to deal with a Facebook hoax.

More than 45 members of Wills’s inner-circle were hoodwinked, including former classmates at St Andrews University and Eton College. In the past month the trickster has posted photos and messages to many of William’s friends.

Daily Mirror, May 16, 2007

Shocking. Er, tut, tut.

Newspaper logic

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You lose a tenth of your readers every paragraph. So if you have an 11-para story, you’ve lost them all.

Bob Satchwell, Director of the UK Society of Editors and a former newspaper editor.

Bob says this is received wisdom in the print business. Wonder if it also applies online? Jakob Neilsen thinks it does — he maintains that, for the most part, Web readers won’t scroll down.

Later… Quentin comments: “If you lose a tenth of your readers every paragraph, then perhaps at
the end of 10 paragraphs you still have a third of your readers left, because 0.9 ^ 10 = 0.35. Of course, if it’s a tenth of your initial readers, then you’re in trouble…”

Quote of the day

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Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

John Milton: Areopagitica

The case for the blogosphere, in a nutshell.

The postmodernism generator

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Jon Crowcroft found this…

The essay you have just seen is completely meaningless and was randomly generated by the Postmodernism Generator. To generate another essay, follow this link. If you liked this particular essay and would like to return to it, follow this link for a bookmarkable page.

I could have used one of these when I was an undergraduate.