My first “author” page on this site made a few cheap promises of dog pictures other random bits of cuteness, but it took me a while to deliver on those…Fortunately, the day of dog reckoning has arrived, and now you’ll notice that I’ve added a new item – “dogs” – to the navigational menu above. It’s all the cuteness you could possibly handle.
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From the monthly archives:
May 2006
I finished writing a long, in-depth entry about the discussion that ensued from yesterday’s TechCrunch post.
Then I deleted it.
I deleted it because a lot of people just weren’t getting the point. So, instead of going all in-depth and being overly meticulous (as is my habit), I figured I’d just come right out with the goods.
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What happened to the mutual respect that web professionals are supposed to pay one another? I mean, I know there’s not a formal guild or anything, but seriously – why on earth would anyone want to go out and throw a colleague under a bus without provocation? While I have no sound rebuttal to combat pure insanity, all I can say this morning is this — Michael Arrington of TechCrunch is officially losing it.
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Ever wonder how much your readers appreciate what you have to say? If you’re like me, then sometimes you’re a little disappointed at the lack of comments or other tangible evidence that screams “we like you…we really like you.” Naturally, you may begin to wonder if anybody really cares what you have to say.
Now, I’m not overly worried that people are going to run off and never come back to this site, but I was certainly curious to find out more about audience behavior. With that in mind, I took a look at my metrics, and I was actually pleasantly surprised by what I found. By applying some very simple mathematics to visitor data (and using some common sense – what, that’s big for me!), I came up with a way for you to loosely determine how focused your traffic is on what you have to say.
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