Saturday, July 17, 2010

I Am Big In Canada


An image is worth a thousand words, so let me not elaborate too much. This map above is based on the traffic to this blog this past week. The major countries seem to be as follows.

The Germans Called Me Robin Hood

Canada
United States
United Kingdom
India
Brazil
Mexico
Australia
Germany
Japan
South Africa

Sergey Brin's Is The Right Stand

I got Brazil and India but not Russia and China.

A 4 AM Traffic Peak, Mostly From Canada
Traffic: Canada Top Country, 2 AM Peak
What Just Happened? 3,000 Page Hits

The page hits for yesterday stand at 2,000 and for today so far stand at 1,000. So I guess that 3,000 hits a few days back not an aberration. That 3,000 could be my new daily floor.

Weekends tend to be slow for bloggers in general. People read blogs when they are at work! So 1,000 for a Saturday is good, it is like getting 2,000 hits on a week day.

My Secret Sauce

If you want to know how to do this, this is my attempt at a formula.

Blog Traffic = (Number Of Total Posts)*(Number Of Inbound Links)*(Frequency Of New Posts)
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Go Outside: Cults



We All Want Someone To Shout For: Best Songs Of 2010 So Far
(Via Fred Wilson)

Beach House – 10 Mile Stereo
Young Empires – Rain Of Gold
Delorean – Grow
Broken Bells – The High Road
Big Boi – Shine Blockas (Feat. Gucci Mane)
Caribou – Odessa
Glass Vaults – Forget Me Not
The Soft Pack – Mexico
Aloe Blacc – I Need A Dollar
Cults – Go Outside

Special shout outs to: 1,2,3,6,7,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,27,28,29,30,31,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50.

Skipped after sampling: 4,5,8,26,32.



Slow Motion: Panda Bear
Rome - Phoenix W/ Devendra Banhart
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News: July 17 (2)

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New York Times

One Bride for 2 Brothers: A Custom Fades in India
Draft Law Revives Practice of Soviets
Energy Secretary Emerges to Take a Commanding Role in Effort to Corral Well
Voices From the Spill | Dia D’ingianni, Retiree: A Dream of a New Life Is Painted Black by Oil
Officials Call Results of Well Test Encouraging
Paterson’s Legal Bills Are Adding Up
Harlem Journal: For People on the Margins, a Ministry Steps Outdoors
Animal Autopsies in Gulf Yield a Mystery
Four Recommended Apps for Losing Weight
At School in Harlem, Resentment Over Girl’s Drowning on a Field Trip
Teacher Fired Over Field-Trip Drowning of Girl, 12
Bangladesh, With Low Pay, Moves In on China
After Goldman’s Concession, Regulators May Be Satisfied
Apple Goes on the Offensive
Bits Pics: Twitter Usage During the World Cup
Europe Without Hotels
This Land: From a Gulf Oyster, a Domino Effect
Habitats | Bushwick, Brooklyn: A Bushwick Mansion Where Music Fills the Halls
State Secret: Chelsea Clinton’s Wedding Plans
Wheelspin: In Michigan, Homage to the Auto’s Heritage
Editorial: Haiti at Six Months
Op-Ed Columnist: Tweet Less, Kiss More
Movie Review | 'Inception': This Time the Dream’s on Me
Theater Review | 'Wanderlust: A History of Walking': A History of How We Got From Here to There
Love Among the Ruined
Man as an Island
Time to Wake Up, Sleeper Spy
Digital Diplomacy
When Funny Goes Viral
Quote Unquote | Fashion Phobia
What Business Can Learn From Chess
Laugh Lines, R.I.P.
Aging Gracefully, the French Way
David Brooks: The Gospel of Mel Gibson
Wealthy Reduce Buying in a Blow to the Recovery
Iran’s President Renews Pressure on Conservatives
Charles M. Blow: Dog Days of Obama

Time

Schwarzenegger's Minimum Wage Rejected
Palin Earned $75K to Speak at University
Smoking Gun Sought in BP-Lockerbie Link
CNN: BP's Progress Bittersweet for Some
The Child Tobacco Farmers of Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan Comes On Strong
Why Venezuela's Chavez Dug Up Bolívar's Bones

CNN

Tolerance for Ground Zero mosque
Back on TV, same old Fidel
Poll: Reid moves ahead of Angle
GOP blasts Obama on economy
Poll: Palin hot with GOP
Techies moving to 'Silicon Prairie'
Afghan 'Oprah' helps country heal

Foreign Affairs

The G-20’s Dead Ideas
Castrocare in Crisis
Coping With China's Financial Power
Khomeini's Long Shadow
Veiled Truths
Defining Success in Afghanistan
Renewing American Leadership
Honolulu, Harvard, and Hyde Park
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy
Obama and the Americas
Fear and Loathing in Nairobi
Mugabe Über Alles
Prisoners of the Caucasus
Empire Without End
The New Cocaine Cowboys
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Stopping Proliferation Before It Starts
Ukrainian Blues

The Economist

Egypt: After three slow decades, change is in the air
Greece: A controversial consolidation
Where has America's greatness gone?
Tibet and Xinjiang: Marking time at the fringes
Europe's future: Can anything perk up Europe?
The future of Europe: Staring into the abyss
Protests in Indian Kashmir: Stony ground
Lexington: Where has all the greatness gone?
Arab autocracy: Thank you and goodbye
China and Sri Lanka: The Colombo consensus
Hong Kong's economy: End of an experiment
Charlemagne: Calling time on progress
Ranking care for the dying: Quality of death
Leader: America's bank reform is hardly a panacea, though it fixes some important things
The banks' supposedly miraculous contribution to economic growth has been more of a mirage
When kings and princes grow old
Your Party. At last, an up-and-coming force in Japanese politics
Somalia comes to Uganda
Bombs in Uganda are probably the work of the Shabab
When the rivers run dry

India Today

RSS sorry for damage at Headlines office
K'taka political crisis reaches Delhi
'Muslims won't forgive Mulayam
TV studio attack: Sena MLA held
'Pak army chief derailed talks'
CPI-ML seeks arrest of Nitish
Normalcy returns to Kashmir
Bihar court summons Sonia
Film review: Tere Bin Laden
Film review: Udaan
Film reviews: Lamhaa
Lamhaa banned in Gulf
China wants to bid for 2026 FIFA WC
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News: July 17

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ReadWriteWeb

The New Digg: What It Means For Power Users & Publishers
10 Inspiring TED Talks for Startups
Ben & Jerry's: How a Big Brand Explores Augmented Reality
Google Launches App to Let Users Share Open Parking Spots
Twitter Launching Analytics Product Soon
The Future of Tech According to Kids: Immersive, Intuitive and Surprisingly Down-to-Earth
Augmented Reality Becoming More Like the Read/Write Web
How Steve Ballmer Ruined the Cloud and the World Cup
RFID Helps Indian Company Trap Ghost Workers
Google Makes Major Semantic Web Play, Acquires Freebase Operators Metaweb
3 Deadly Mistakes made by SaaS Providers
Apple: Free Cases for All

AllThingsD

Facebook Will Announce 500 Million Users Next Week With “Facebook Stories”
Gizmodo to Cooperate With Probe Into Lost iPhone Prototype
Justin Bieber’s “Baby” the Most-Watched YouTube Video Ever, So Far
Jobs Feels Like He’s Been Through a Tear-Down
Jobs: Nobody’s Perfect (But We’re Very Close)
AMD: After Hours Gains Gone; Focus Turns To Processor Delay
Shhh! Google Buys Metaweb to Boost Search Results
Apple’s iPhone 4 Solution: Free Cases For Everyone!
Hey! Did You Know a Lot of People Used Twitter During the World Cup?
The Only Problem With Droid X Reception? Too Darn Warm.
Apple’s “Just Encase” Answer to iPhone 4 Complaints
Japanese Author Skirts Publishers With iPad Novel
The Facebook Movie Is a Money Maker for Twitter
Venture Capitalist’s New Frontier: Where Cellphones Meet Retailing
AMD Posts Sharply Higher Sales
Paul Allen, Microsoft Co-Founder, Pledges Fortune to Philanthropy

Engadget

iPhone 4 proximity sensor fix in the works
RIM co-CEOs pull no punches responding to Apple's antenna statements
Jobs: 'no one's going to buy' a big phone
iPhone 4 coming to Canada and 16 other countries July 30th
Apple: iPhone 4 drops 'less than one additional call per 100 than the 3GS'
iPhone 4 proximity sensor fix in the works
iPhone 4 sales: 3 million and counting, 1.7 percent returned
Apple affirms: no software fix for iPhone 4 antenna issue
Xbox 360 sales increase 88 percent in June, give it US console crown for the month
Google halting Nexus One official store sales after current inventory depleted
Nokia: 'we prioritize antenna performance over physical design if they are ever in conflict'
2011 Subaru Outback gains in-car WiFi option, strange Maine birds not included
Toyota and Tesla plan to bring electric RAV4 to market in 2012
Sony Alpha A390 and A290 DSLRs hands-on
Boxee's first production Box gets shown off to the world (video)

ArsTechnica

iPhone 4 antenna: unanswered questions, unearned trust
Mercury flyby maps new territory
4G data caps: not here yet, but likely to come
Ocean bacteria may create as much methane as they destroy
What happens when we run out of oil and coal?
Grades don't drop for college Facebook fiends
Funding overhaul aims at fast broadband for rural healthcare
Electric vehicle, battery makers get charge out of stimulus
Droid X first impressions: nice hardware, Motorola
iOS 4.0.1 tweaks bar display, doesn't fix signal drop
Clear Channel: Internet means we get to buy more radio stations
Users of location services worried about robberies, stalking

VentureBeat

Boxee shows off final version of its video streaming Boxee Box (video)
Facebook co-founder Moskovitz says movie has more sex, booze
Nokia kicks Apple while it’s down, says it prioritizes antenna performance over looks
Apple does have a sense of humor with “antennagate” (video)
Even during iPhone 4 damage control, Steve Jobs is a skillful onstage presenter (video)
Intel snags former Palm and Apple VP Mike Bell for smartphone plans
Google acquires MetaWeb, says Freebase will become “more open”
New report: VC investing bouncing back in Q2
Samsung strategist Omar Khan talks superphones (video)
Roundup: Firefox comes to the iPhone, MySpace gets a makeover and more
SGN launches Skies of Glory as the first cross-platform Android-iPhone game
Apple won’t recall iPhone 4 despite reception problems, WSJ says
California sues Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac for blocking green energy initiative

GigaOm

Is the Difference Between MySpace and Facebook Black and White?
Four Business Tips From Apple's Steve Jobs
Why Google Launched App Inventor
The State of Open Source for the Smart Grid
Hulu Plus on the PS3: Less Content Than on the Web
Google Gets Semantic: Buys Metaweb
Surprise: World Cup Final Fails to Set Another Peak Tweeting Record
The Email Signature: From Efficient to Overkill
Google’s App Inventor: Escalating the Mobile Ad War?
Google Bows to Criticism, Changes Google News Design
When it Comes to Broadband, UK Still A Laggard
Seed-Stage Investments Jump Sharply in Q2 2010
Video: Chris Sacca Helps Founders Cash Out Shares Early
Esquire Misses the Point on Twitter and the World Cup
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Friday, July 16, 2010

Reclaiming My Twitter Account

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I have decided to reclaim my Twitter account. What I mean by that is I am no longer going to be feeding TechCrunch, Mashable, CNet, BusinessWeek and Time into my Twitter stream like I have been doing for over a year now. They have had their free rides. Now I have a blog that intends to compete with them. I am going to link plenty to them on a near daily basis. But now the feeds into my Twitter stream are going to be only from my blogs. Most of the fed tweets will be from this blog itself because this is the most active of my blogs.

I did that feed thing because when I was desperately trying to accumulate followers on Twitter, I figured I could not fail in my attempt to create a great Twitter stream if I fed from some of my favorite blogs, news sites to visit, my favorite magazines. 

That worked for a while. It no longer works for me now that I am toying with the idea of pro blogging in a serious way. 

A spike in blog traffic can boost your self esteem. It has boosted mine. Now TechCrunch, Mashable, CNet, BusinessWeek, and Time come across as crutches, possibly even competitors. Why am I giving them all that free traffic again? 

TwitterFeed tells me the newest feed from CNet into my Twitter stream has 700 clicks. Those clicks could be mine. Those could be clicks for my blog. 

Hello people, the free lunch is over. 

I never really did the RSS thing, and I tried Google Reader but I did not become a regular. I was using Twitter for all that. But no more. Now I create my own news feeds in the form of daily blog posts that link to many news items from many different sources.

A 4 AM Traffic Peak, Mostly From Canada
Traffic: Canada Top Country, 2 AM Peak
What Just Happened? 3,000 Page Hits
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