As some guy who's looking to build my career in website development, I'm constantly coding new things and adding bits to the pile. I've got a ton of websites under my belt; I just cleaned up my Desktop PC (my baby, sorry all my macs) and found backups of this very site dating back to 2002. In that time, I went from constructing websites in netscape composer (aka what most people do now in Dreamweaver), hard-coding html sites, to building html templates for complicated content management systems and building plugins for said cms'. Finally, in it's 9th year, I'm using (for totally selfless reasons, too) a cms of my own design, pretty much written entirely by these ten fingers. 

So it goes without saying that I have some experience with web traffic. Believe it or not, at this site's apogee, ~2008, this site could rely on a good 30k uniques per month. Peanuts, I know. Mostly people searching for rants about a tech columnist and PETA, and pics of Lala and Tech News. Today, after being sucked dry by SEO whores after I dropped the domain for a spell, it's a lonely world in these parts of the internet. Seriously, you're the only traffic I get. btw please be sure to click on things before you leave!

So how does one drive traffic? I consider this one of my weaker subjects, so I'm working on some projects to help improve my standing in the field. but just as someone who's dabbled, I think I have a working grasp on the basics. So, let's go down the list.

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So, iTunes 10 was released recently, and the internet is in an uproar at how pedestrian an update it was. The logic, initally, was that as it's an update to it's tenth release, th e only proper way to honor such longevity was a total rewrite. Since the begining, anyone with ipods, iphones had to use iTunes to transfer their data to their devices; music, movies, tv shows, app backups, etc. The iOS devices are becoming so hugely popular that iTunes has become woefully inadequate to handle it all. So everyone was super-hoping that version 10 would be something special.

Personally, i think Apple's update was fitting, given the direction they've taken as of late. You see, Apple seems to be diving head first in to the streaming content market, trying to get away from giving people digital copies of their media. We see, with their new Apple TV, that they have switched to a rental model for tv and movie content. It's no secret that Google is brewing some monopoly busting cloud music service (but probably all kinds of media), and Apple has already started working on fanciful ways to make all your digital media evaporate up to the cloud. 

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