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[edit] Diary-X

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

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.