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Re:Kawasaki and Truemors: The stupidest idea ever? Not anymore. by SwellJoe on Tuesday October 02, 2007 @05:15PM (#62276)
150,000 page views? That's not very much, is it? My book on the web was getting 30,000 pageviews a day when it was first published...and these days it gets about 100,000 per month in its current wiki form four years later (about 1000 visitors per day and slowly climbing). And it's not at all Web 2.0 or constantly new. Our business website even gets 100k page views per month (similarly, 1000-1500 visitors per day), and we definitely don't consider that a triumph.

I'm not begrudging him success with Truemors. I, unlike a lot of folks here, think very highly of Kawasaki. I found his books inspiring and occasionally educational, and his Art of the Start presentation is awesome. But I think it's too early to call it a success at 150k page views per month...the 250k users thing doesn't quite gibe with the 150k page views...that would mean that almost no one EVER comes back to Truemors after their first visit, which is a very bad thing.

Re:Kawasaki and Truemors: The stupidest idea ever? Not anymore. by gommm on Wednesday October 03, 2007 @05:53AM (#62535)
What book ?
Re:Kawasaki and Truemors: The stupidest idea ever? Not anymore. by SwellJoe on Wednesday October 03, 2007 @02:25PM (#62691)
The Book of Webmin. It was published by No Starch Press in 2003, sold modestly (but got lots of readers on the web, too). It's now been combined with Jamie Cameron's book about Webmin (which was published in the same year) to form a wiki at http://doxfer.com/Webmin