Today's theme: Different Kinds of traffic.

(Editor's note: Time-lapsed video of radar showing FedEx flights dodging thunderstorms. This also has a nifty soundtrack.)

Microsimulation of road traffic (Java Applet)

(Editor's note: This Java applet will allow you to create simple traffic simulations. I had a lot of fun with this.)

"There's a long list of high-traffic sites (beginning with theglobe.com and extending to hotmail and many others) that couldn't monetize. They were stuck because the bait that got them the traffic had no room for a reasonable hook. You could use a TV like model and interrupt with irrelevant ads, but it doesn't work so well.

All a long, long way to say something simple:
Whatever your website, I think you want better traffic, not more traffic.

You want to figure out why the right people will come, not build a sideshow that attracts exactly the wrong people."

(Editor's note: I disagree somewhat with the author of this article. While it is true that high traffic in-and-of itself is useless; it's easier to generate a buzz and get cross-linked when you are popular.)