What’s Popular?
February 18th, 2006According to Measure Map (which was recently gobbled by Google), these are the five most popular posts at jimthompson.org:
| Aerial Sightseeing Around Texas: the Battleship and the Monument | April 9th, 2005 | 542 visits |
| Houston Hybrid | July 23, 2005 | 482 visits |
| Slugs! | July 4, 2005 | 377 visits |
| Google, Microsoft, and the USGS | April 8th, 2005 | 322 visits |
| Sue and the Monster | July 13, 2005 | 316 visits |
How strange. How very strange.
February 18th, 2006 at 1:46 pm
Hi Jim!
I really enjoy your comments over at the TechBlog! Congrats on your “citizen-blogger” selection as well! I’ve just recently started to feed your blog on a regular basis. I really admire your brevity–I’m still a longer-winded blogger. But then, I don’t seem to have the time/discipline yet to manage more frequent weekly postings.
You are right. I was a bit general (it being early morning and all) in calling Measure Map an “equivalent” to Google Analytics the other day at TechBlog–although I must confess, I haven’t had a chance to use either one, yet. I see you posted some stats using Measure Map. What I’m curious about is a blogger’s firsthand experience with either of these. As a blogger, do you find them useful in any way for your blogging work or are they just interesting tools in general?
With Respect,
Claus
February 18th, 2006 at 10:47 pm
Thanks for the nice comments, Claus. My use of Measure Map and Google Analytics is strictly out of curiosity. I write my weblog here at jimthompson.org strictly for personal use and to keep my friends and family mildly amused and up to date on what’s going on in my life. I suppose that if I were trying to build an audience, I’d use the information I get out of the tracking tools to try to adjust content to my audience’s needs, but as it is, the tracking tools are just to play with.