User talk:Stephen Deken/Diary-X

= Diary-X =

Selected information about Diary-X which goes to its notablity.

Diary-X in National Media

 * "Who's Blogging Now?" Newsweek (U.S. Edition) March 5, 2001. Newsweek.com Article ID FOTY0110D.  Newsweek.com makes it sufficiently hard to link archives, though.  Wayback Machine has it.  Excerpt:
 * An aspiring Samuel Pepys can turn to many sites on the Web for launching a personal journal, including DiaryLand.com, Pitas.com, Diaryx.com and Blogspot.com. Joint journals, or discussions, can be conducted at sites such as Metafilter.com.
 * Name dropping, of course, but there we are. They got the URL wrong too; that's what we get for not having a press kit.


 * This story, in turn, was picked up by Slashdot (among others), although a notable website picking up a story from a notable source about a notable phenom in which various non-notable things are mentioned is a bit of a stretch.
 * Can't seem to find the TIME article. And, come to think of it, I've never actually seen it in person.  Possibly someone saw Cannes Diary X: Palmed Off (where X == 10) and thought it was an article about the service.

Internet Notability

 * Alexa ranking of 29,334 does not meet WP:WEB. However, going on the 'once notable, always notable' principle, our ranking in early 2005 skated briefly above 10,000.  Of course, Alexa only tracks those users who download their toolbar.
 * Google backlinks are misleading, because Google has consistently penalized Diary-X for quite some time. Google only recently lifted whatever ban they had in place for Diary-X, so now you can at least search for site:diary-x.com and get results.  "diary x com" returns 42,000 hits, but that's probably low.