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Not a thorough post… more like sticky notes… Growing from 0 to 100 feels like a slog Growing from 100 to 150 still feels like a slog When you’re near 200, going…

A funny thing happens when your web traffic starts to travel up and to the right … you tend to overlook the outliers. Sure, you’re aware that those tiny spikes can offset…

Last year ended on whimpering note for one of my passion projects. Just as I was recovering from the growth slump following two months of seemingly exponential growth, December 2018 proved to…

It’s my freshman year for a hypothesis: hyperlocal journalism just needed to be approached from the right angle. True statement? All signs point to a resounding yes after launching countless content aggregators…

This one’s another one-liner: Add Google AdSense tags and watch traffic take a dive as it makes your site load like a slug. August was a great month as traffic spiked to…

This one’s a one-liner: Upload a song to YouTube, let it gain traction to reach about 10K views, and then delete said video. Ok, let’s back up a little. About two years…

As of this moment, I have 11,177 play racked up on Soundcloud, which sounds decent until you dive into the granular part of the stats. Given the whole story, this figure seem…

A couple of years ago, I built an online marketplace for musicians. It went so great, it wouldn’t even cover my server costs. Awesomesauce. If I had to do a post-mortem of…

The other day, I was trying to figure out why I’ve had so much cognitive dissonance in my head, regarding some of the features I’ve built for one of my side projects.…

Long time, no type, so here goes another bloggity post/newsy update: The network of headline-driven media sites, aka The Press Enquirer, I’ve built over the past several months has now garnered more…