LIVEdigitally

One of my favorite VC bloggers, Fred Wilson, recently posted on removing some widgets from his blog.  Now Fred clearly attempts to try every plugin ever made, and I applaud him for the efforts.  I’ve tried a few from time to time, and the two that I’ve decided caused the most hassle for LD are now gone.

1. Sitemeter
   Why I used it: Built-in server statistics are less reliable than Windows ME.
   What I liked: Seemed to keep pretty decent stats, and the stats views are real-time.  Very handy for determining who is linking in.  Considered mostly reliable for site metrics.
   What I didn’t like: Tangibly slowed down page-loading, occasionally prevented site from loading in single-digit-seconds.
   How I’m replacing it: Google Analytics.  It doesn’t boast the same real-time capabilities, but I realized that I don’t care enough on a day-to-day basis to watch the numbers anyway.
2. My Del.ici.ous
   Why I used it: Very convenient way for me to link to a story I found interesting without having to add a full blog post for it.
   What I liked: Helped keep content “fresh” on the home page.
   What I didn’t like: Extremely buggy, caused really ugly script errors that were all-too visible.
   How I’m replacing it: I’m not.  I’ll keep bookmarking sites I like, and those who care can track them here.  I’ll probably try to add more short-form blog posts anyway, since my unbelievably long essays are a little much for the average reader.

Anyone have any other plugin recommendations that I should check out?  I browse the WordPress codex intermittently, am I missing the boat on anything?

This entry was posted on Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007 at 4:40 am by Jeremy Toeman and is filed under General. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.