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Monday, August 8, 2005
Podcasting at 18,000 miles an hour 
Looks like a pretty good flag, actually
| | Saw Venus chasing the Moon after sunset last night. Actually, it was kind of the other way around. The Moon was slowly moving in the direction of Venus. At least from our Earthbound vantage. |
| | Anyway, I shot the scene. |
Breaking the pattern
Blam
| | Just ran across this. Don't understand it, exactly, but if it fights blog spam I'm for it. |
Beyond the numbers
| | I can't do the kind of trending graphed in that post. Or if I can, I don't know how. Nor am I much interested, unless there is some Big Issue I'm following. And then it's usually not about what I'm up to, but what's up with the Issue itself. |
| | If you look here, you'll see visits to this blog running from 1322 to 4240 over the last week or so. On the whole, those numbers are high. Generally they run from the high hundreds to about 3500. That's what they've been doing for the last 5 years. |
| | I'm sure there are some bonus reads from aggregators, but I doubt those raise the number of actual readers beyond another thousand or so, tops. |
| | The blog is blessed with a #18 ranking on Technorati's Top 100, but that reportedly weighs heavily to links on front pages, including blogrolls. I'm grandfathered into a large number of those, which will probably shrink as the 'sphere realizes that blogrolls are, like, so 1999. |
| | As I've said before, being an alpha blogger is like being an alpha paramecium. We're all one-celled animals here. And I mean that as a good thing. |
| | I don't know about the rest of ya'll, but I'm here to change the world for the better and have a good time doing it. If looking at a few numbers can help me do either, fine. But I have a feeling that the numbers that matter, whenever they arrive, won't look like the Top anything on the old Billboard model. Instead they'll help us understand the world we're also making. And there's no old model for that. |
Aweigh
| | I just learned that Peter Jennings, the best network anchor who ever lived, has died. |
| | I always liked Jennings. While his warm voice and handsome looks certainly helped his career, he clearly had the journalistic goods, in spades. More importantly, he always seemed genuine, balanced, and caring. He was already missed. Sad to learn that won't ever change. |
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