August 3, 2008

  • Xanga: Blogregationist

    Xanga blog service info:

    Want detailed info on Xanga's traffic, geographics, and demographics trends?  Visit Quantcast and browse around.  Some interesting findings...

    1) 8% of visitors are considered "Addicts" and are responsible for 64% of all visits.

    2) Teens, Kids, and Asians are highly-concentrated on Xanga.

    Now for my rant...

    Have you noticed that Xanga has become a blogregationist?   Yep.  Used to be that Xanga Hong Kongers were in the social mix here on www.xanga.com.  But since June 20th or so, they've been broken out into a separate subdomain called hk.xanga.com.  Great timing: right before the Olympics!

    If you go to the main Xanga page, you should notice a little tab at the top that says "visit xanga hk".  Now that's where all the people who write with these funny characters (这些都是奇怪的字符) are dispatched to for promotional pruposes.  It sure has cleaned up xanga u.s.a. though, hasn't it?  No need to be offended anymore by cover content with squiggles you can't read anyway and surely are possibly divisive by nature, right?  Because the Hong Kong contingent was growing and becoming more integrated into the Xanga content I was encountering, I had several months back began providing a Chinese translation of my posts for native Chinese speakers.  Well, what a visionary I was not: I never imagined that Xanga would isolate Chinese language bloggers from our melting pot.

    And, oh, by the way, are there any bloggers from the U.K., France, Australia, Russia, the Netherlands, and wherever all else that are offended by the fact that Xanga is no longer just worldwide Xanga but now either xanga hk or xanga u.s.a ?  That's right.  The switching tab at the top of the Xanga home page provides only these two options.

    It's strange that Xanga didn't at least announce this separation and provide explanation (I did due diligence and checked "Xanga News" - not there.)  At Xanga's startup, it was a great worldwide unifier bringing bloggers from all over the world together.  Now, with moribund massiveness, it has decided to fracture the world into smaller, self-manageable fractions.  What's next?   xanga espanol ?   Yes.  But only if it could attract enough of a critical mass of Spanish bloggers to segregate.  And that's unlikely - observing that Xanga's popularity, measured by visits, in the last year has dropped to less than half.   Is Xanga becoming Babel?

    Just remember that the Book of Mormon, a book of scripture used by members of the Church of
    Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, features a story about a family who prayed
    that their language would not be confounded. Their prayers were answered and
    they were led to the Americas.  Thank God for xanga u.s.a !

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