Inside Baseball (circa 2006)

This is an extremely target'd post. You should probably only bother with it if you are among the very small team of creative and wonderful folks who worked on the netscape.com portal prior to its demonstrably failed Digg-like makeover in June of 2006:

And for those folks who were there to witness firsthand -- fair warning: listening to this excerpt from TWiT #180 (1-Feb-2009) just might make you ill -so- you may want to skip it too.

For the Record: Peter is quite correct -- Netscape.com numbers CRASHED when Jason overhauled it. The evidence was clear while his product was still in beta, but he rushed to market anyway. Complaints from folks who wanted to revert to the old portal-like design were voluminous (and quite venomous).