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Dot.Communist reports 200% growth in monthly traffic year-to-year, and 500% annual revenue growth for FY 2002

BALTIMORE- Privately-held weblog and commentary provider The Dot.Communist announced today that it recorded 8,190 page requests in August of this year, up from 4,010 for the same period in the previous year, and from 1,143 in August 2000. August's showing followed a record month in July of 9,242 page requests, a 190% increase over July 2001's total of 4,661 page requests.

Seperately, Dot.Communist reported $5 in revenue from its merchandise sales on Café Shops.com, resulting in a 500% annual growth in revenue.

“Given this phenomenal growth in traffic and revenue, even in a recession year, we see this as a sign that the digital economy is ready for a rebound,” said Dot.Communist chief content officer Sean Gallagher. “We hope to continue this growth until we can get venture capital, issue an IPO, and cash out as quickly as possible, er, I mean, build value for shareholders.”

This release includes certain forward-looking statements which should generally be ignored.

Steve Gillmor, riffing on Python (no, not that Python) says Notes is dead. Ray Ozzie, riffing on Steve, says publishing is dead.

Well, I'm sure that both Notes and Publishing, if they could be rendered as corporeal beings, would quote Python as well: “I'm not dead yet.”

Notes and its offspring, Domino, despite the best efforts of IBM to kill them, somehow live on despite the bungling. Publishing, despite the New Media's desire to cast it onto the metaphorical undertaker's cart, still appears to be the only way to make money off words reliably. Publishing has outlasted Pointcast's push and it will doubtless outlast P2P. It will coexist with the Web, weblogs, etc. just as it has with film, radio, and television.