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I'm Ryan Lowe, a Software Engineering graduate living in Ottawa, Canada. I like agile software development and Ruby on Rails.
I write this blog in Canadian English and don't use a spell checker. Typos happen.
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» Full-time with Rails since May 2005 » Former committer for RadRails (now Aptana) » I also have a few Rails side-projects in development: 1. wheretogoinTO.com Toronto nightlife 2. Hey Heads Up! TODO list and sharing 3. Layered Genealogy family history research 4. foos for foosball scoring 5. fanconcert for music fans (on hold) Hiring Rails developers? I can telecommute by the hour from Ottawa, Canada »» Email: rails AT ryanlowe DOT ca
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I honestly cannot believe how many people have come to my blog for a solution to the Ant JAVA_HOME problem with Eclipse 2.1 I wrote up six months ago. I probably get 50-75 hits a day from just that issue. A strange combination of circumstances gives me all of those hits. My increased Google juice has to do with Google's inability to properly score blogs, meaning I have a relatively inflated score. So when you seach for the error text, my blog comes up near the top. It probably doesn't help that I got linked a few times by Robert Scoble who also has an inflated score, which probably adds to my score somehow (Scoble calls this 'giving Google juice'). The increased linkage of blogs is part of what gives Google problems, as linking frequency is a basis for its scoring system. The great thing is that I have a solution to a problem and I can share it with others, creating a sort of ad hoc community around a specific problem. It's really great when you can just Google an error message and get a solution right away instead of wading through manuals. Posted at November 28, 2003 at 08:53 AM ESTLast updated November 28, 2003 at 08:53 AM EST Comments
I have seen similar results on my own blog regarding either issues I have and post about have brought upon a community surrounding the topic at hand. Its really funny to see a community pop out of a thought being posted into the web. » Posted by: Ray Slakinski at November 28, 2003 10:26 PMI've noticed this a lot with my blog. It's funny some of the ways to find my site one Google. My favourite is the project management one, "FP BOAP" which brings up some of the material from last year that was very helpful in one of the assignments. I remember reading a slashdot article once about Google wanting to move blogs to a separate area like they have done with the news groups. Although this would probably fix all the ranking problems, it wouldn't help me get more hits. And more hits is what it's all about. » Posted by: Kibbee at November 29, 2003 11:34 AM |
