Here’s are my three takeaways from this little experiment (I am discounting the links from my old blog to this new one. It’s an anomaly since I just switched) …

• I suspect that Twitter and Friendfeed today are major traffic drivers to many sites. I have heard this in meetings with execs at major media companies. What this means is that you must to syndicate your content where the people are and then engage in conversations around it in order to influence.
• Yes, having a place you can call home online still matters. But you better make sure that it is dynamic and socially connected the social hubs. Louis Gray says your blog is your castle. But the problem is the big blog platforms like Blogger and TypePad have really fallen behind the curve. Blogs are fragmenting. They’re virtually isolated from the social hubs. Posterous lets you post everywhere at once plus it syndicates reader comments into Twitter, Facebook and even Friendfeed if you use Backtype. Tumblr I believe can do the same. These companies are redefining publishing by making a blog format more social. The blog needs a reboot. I am excited to learn more about Tumblr when I meet with them later today.
• I am curious about the word “Direct” in my logs. My gut is that in 2009 it reflects Twitter desktop clients while in 2006 it was more about desktop RSS readers.