I have really enjoyed blogging here. I like having a place to direct my comments and my friends for citations. I want to take a moment to show some of the cool things I have enjoyed about blogging in this particular space.
The Blog Stats Graph
I must spend more time looking at this than any other website than my email. I love the graphical representation of my impact on the world. I would include a screen shot but unfortunately I have used up all of my free download space.
The Search Terms
Here are the most popular search terms used to find my blog in the past 2 days:
Search Terms for 7 days ending 2007-11-30
Today
| Search | Views |
|---|---|
| “gmail won’t let me send” spam | 2 |
| soup receipies for tea party | 1 |
| How Lovely Is Thy Dwelling Place word pa | 1 |
| ‘restristions of free thought and free s | 1 |
| Board of Education of the City School Di | 1 |
| how to learn to read music faster | 1 |
| Reno v. ACLU | 1 |
Yesterday
| Search | Views |
|---|---|
| elephants in the zoo | 2 |
| phantom of the opera mask | 1 |
| halite rocks | 1 |
| 10 banned books | 1 |
| learning music keys | 1 |
| jbpm scientific | 1 |
| judicial branch metaphors | 1 |
| how lovely is thy dwelling place faintet | 1 |
| doing homework fast | 1 |
| Perks of being a wallflower scholar anal | 1 |
| edi document tracking open source | 1 |
| why are goosebumps series books banned? | 1 |
| carter case board of education |
What’s fun is trying to figure out which of my blog posts are linked to which of these search terms.
Anyhoo, yay for 100 posts!
Inspirational Quote:
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
– Will Rogers
Two interesting recent blog posts on how to measure blog value:
Blog Subscriber Acquisition Mode
from blog: A Web Analyst’s Perspective – It’s Not METRICS!,
by dustinwallace, Dec 03, 2007
http://blogs.sun.com/itsnotmetrics/entry/blog_subscriber_acquisition_mode
Blog Metrics: Six Recommendations For Measuring Your Success
from blog: Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik, 19 Nov 2007
http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/2007/11/blog-metrics-six-recommendations-for-measuring-your-success.html