It's always fun to take a peek at my server logs. For this site, it's entirely a curiosity thing; for my other site, I track the effectiveness of some advertising I do online, and generally see what's getting traffic and what isn't. I popped open the stats page a few minutes ago, and saw a tremendous spike for last Thursday. For April, I had been averaging around 200 "hits" a day or so - Thursday the 14th was 4,523. I assumed I'd see some additional traffic after the CCI launch and hoopla, but that's a big spike. I also noticed that one of the higher entries in the referer list was ...
I just saw a press release titled "About Adobe - Adobe to acquire Macromedia". Adobe is the company that produces Photoshop, among many other great products -- primarily print-orientated applications, although Photoshop is the defacto standard application of web designers. Macromedia generally has stuck to Web apps in the last 5 years - Flash, Cold Fusion. This bothers me from 2 perspectives. It's the #1 and #2 companies in the field merging -- and I'm not even sure who #3 would be at the moment, but they're not not even close. So much for competition. I'm sure the deal has to go through regulators, etc., and will take months and months to ...