Starting to take on some data...
Well, it's Tuesday, and we're still in full "friends and family beta" mode, but we're starting to attract more and more entries. The data still leans heavily toward our own material -- I've got over 100 entries at this point -- but people are piling in and piling on.
"Addicting" is the word most often cited by users so far, although it's not clear if it's the kind of addiction I feel -- the need to vent about something that I haven't mentioned before -- or the need to read what everyone else is saying. I'm guessing it's more the former: we seem to have quite a few people with 6, 7, 8 or more entries within the first 24-48 hours after they've signed up. Will that hold? Hard to predict.
Some people are having trouble with tagging, which we'll try to resolve later today when we load our first FAQs list on the site. It explains the process of tagging, and suggests some ways to use tags in order to track how your opinions match up with those of other users. We'll make it pretty prominent, so it's easy to find, and I'll link to it from here. [Interesting point about this: we must be attracting people who don't usually spend time at Web 2.0 sites.]
And lastly, it's great to see things that happen that you just didn't foresee at all: the post today about "Having to listen to the buffoon deliver the State of the Union Address tonight and with that Nancy Pompous Pelosi up there behind him," which is longer than the home page cloud was designed to accommodate. Ooops -- throws off the whole flow of the design. We -- and by that I mean Chris, our CTO and the brains behind the site -- will fix it later today.
"Addicting" is the word most often cited by users so far, although it's not clear if it's the kind of addiction I feel -- the need to vent about something that I haven't mentioned before -- or the need to read what everyone else is saying. I'm guessing it's more the former: we seem to have quite a few people with 6, 7, 8 or more entries within the first 24-48 hours after they've signed up. Will that hold? Hard to predict.
Some people are having trouble with tagging, which we'll try to resolve later today when we load our first FAQs list on the site. It explains the process of tagging, and suggests some ways to use tags in order to track how your opinions match up with those of other users. We'll make it pretty prominent, so it's easy to find, and I'll link to it from here. [Interesting point about this: we must be attracting people who don't usually spend time at Web 2.0 sites.]
And lastly, it's great to see things that happen that you just didn't foresee at all: the post today about "Having to listen to the buffoon deliver the State of the Union Address tonight and with that Nancy Pompous Pelosi up there behind him," which is longer than the home page cloud was designed to accommodate. Ooops -- throws off the whole flow of the design. We -- and by that I mean Chris, our CTO and the brains behind the site -- will fix it later today.
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