The Wrong Advices

As flawed as it is as a metric, many advertising programs still place significant weight on Alexa rank. Naturally if you are part of any of these programs you will want to improve your rank to maximize your earnings. Or if you’re like me you do it for the challenge, and the pleasure of [...]

The picture below originally appeared in the Op-Ed section of the New York Times. I found it amusingly insightful.
Here is my summary of the key points in the life cycle of a blog post.

Someone writes a post that gets wide publicity.
A bunch of people in agreement quickly align themselves with the author.
Soon after those [...]