Archive for WTF
August 3, 2007 at 1:52 pm · Filed under allsux, images, politics, scandal, WTF
Recent posts on Web Urbanist have been getting all sorts of insane comments. Some commenters on a post about creative urban homeless shelters left great and productive feedback, while others suggested things like “we round them up and put them to work digging ditches for no pay” or “Nice designs; too bad they’re wasted on the homeless.”
Is there really that much hatred for the homeless, or are these just one-off idiots who have lost their head (or have noheart)? A follow-up post received far fewer responses – because it was less controversial, or because it put those first commenters in their place? It seems hard to believe that people will possibly find the most recent post on graffiti murals as Belfast as controversial, but I guess the comments above go to show that you never know.
August 1, 2007 at 11:25 pm · Filed under allsux, video, WTF
in your entire life … make it this one:
July 9, 2007 at 4:15 pm · Filed under allsux, guerilla marketing, web 20, WTF
June 17, 2007 at 4:30 pm · Filed under allsux, banned, censored, digg, google, liveleak, technorati, web 20, WTF
In this latest installment of the AllSux retrospective, I’m taking a look back at the site’s most controversial and popular posts! If you’ve been reading for a while you may or may not have seen these, but they are the ones that put the site on the map and brought in the readers it has today.
(5) This post about Ask, Google and Google-Sux got some attention mostly because I bashed a site, and its administrator came back at me guns blazing. However, their counterarguments got shut down pretty fast. In reality, I think it was the comments that drew more attention than the post.
(4) This post about the huge scandal about LiveLeak not being indexed by Google drew a lot of readership, though much of it was from a Spanish site I never was able to decipher!
(3) Of course, one of the biggest AllSux targets has been Digg.com – and this story that followed the huge Digg scandal was the most popular of them all. While other blogs (and major news sites like Wired) were confused, I stayed up all night and summarized what was going on.
(2) The Technorati experiment had a huge readership. I think that a lot of people are interested in the deeper consequences of using social networks, and this post struck a cord with folks.
(1) Of course the most visited page on AllSux is Allsux! That bodes well for this and my other (newer) blog, because it means that there are a lot of readers who want to see the lates and greatest, and don’t just show up to read a single post and leave. Thanks to you all – keep visiting, reading, and please leave comments! Also visit this new blog I’m helping develop: WebUrbanist.com.
An honorable mention goes to all of the articles on AllSux about Helium. Though none of these pages have individually made the top five, they have cumulatively done amazingly well. Why? Because other frustrated Helium writers keep finding them and sending me words of support as well as their own stories bout Helium.
June 11, 2007 at 8:55 pm · Filed under allsux, mybloglog, WTF
Scanning through MyBlogLog members you can find some really strange stuff. Take the RedGirl blog, for example, where you can download a I <3 You blog clock, even if you can’t understand a single word on the page. I’ll admit that some of the weird images on this blog are humorous and bizarre, but some of the captions make no sense.
May 24, 2007 at 3:43 pm · Filed under allsux, technorati, WTF
So why did I WTF my own blog … while talking about how people misuse WTFs? Well, I did it for a few reasons:
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May 23, 2007 at 12:09 am · Filed under allsux, technorati, WTF
I have to admit, this is a pretty clever use of the Technorati WTF tool. Still, using WTFs only for self-promotion does seem a bit underhanded, at least so long as you like and respect Technorati as a real source of information! Right? But wait, I WTF-ed this article about WTFs! OMG WTF is going on! On that note, vote here to WTF this WTF … think of it is a meta-WTF to raise awareness about WTFs like this. I’ll redirect all of this traffic to Technorati anyway – a great site people should use to look for better sites than this one!
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