It’s pretty obvious that I haven’t been posting much lately. However, you couldn’t tell by looking at my traffic. It looks about the same it always does save for the times that I get a project of mine put on Digg.  How do I account for this? Simple.  I have lots* of linkbacks to my original projects. 

Whenever I do a new mod or hack or whatever, it usually (read: always) gets to the front page of Digg and thus, gets linked to from all over the planet.  I love those days.  However, on days like today, when I am more than a month removed from my last front pager, I still get between several hundred to a thousand unique visitors a day.  This traffic certainly is not from my mediocre amount of subscribers, it’s from all the linkbacks.  A quick browsing of my stat tracker and I can tell that 90% of my incoming traffic is not from the little link posts I make. No, they are coming for the projects and original articles. 

With this in mind, I am going to be changing the format of Zerosign slightly.  I am tired of making the link dump posts that do little more than make me feel better for publishing something once a day.  Instead, I am going to be spending that time working on some projects I have coming up. What does this mean practically? All orginal content, in the form of projects or articles, but fewer posts. I believe that this arrangement will work out best for all of us. I won’t spend time looking for some reblogged item to post, and you won’t have to read about the same item that you already saw on BoingBoing or Make.  I will be planning on putting out a quality original post once or twice a week (if people can wait a week for a normal podcast, then I hope they can wait a week for an original, thoughful post from an expert me). If however, you miss those short, fast, regurgitated posts that I used to make, I’m sure you can find those somewhere else.