Nerd Stats 2012
Here is a quick summary of my blog and Twitter stats for 2012 ((To see previous years’ nerd stats postings, click the year in the table.)):
| 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | % change from 2011 | |
| Blog postings: | 423 | 357 | 344 | 380 | 201 | -47% |
| Tweets: | 2,227 | 1,815 | 2302 | 3,625 | 875 ((note to self: You started Tweeting in 2008, so you get these totals by simple subtraction, not by some fancy pants program or anything. I hope this helps you when you write your “Nerd Stats 2013” posting when you think “how the hell did I figure out how many times I tweeted in a given year??”)) | -76% |
| Visits to my blog | 32,410 | 45,153 | 44,689 | 60,560 | 63,844 | +5% |
| Average number of blog visits per day | 93 ((not sure why this value is not equal to the number of visits to my blog divided by 365 days. Probably some some of rounding error)). | 126 ((ibid)) | 122 | 166 | 175 | +5% |
| Busiest day on my blog: | Sept 26, 2008 (460 views) ((thanks to the Hockey Hotties posting)) | July 25, 2009 (1,181 views) ((thanks to the Blogathon!)) | Feb 9, 2010 (233 views) | Oct 10, 2011 (374 views) | Feb 13, 2012 (350 views) ((This makes me sad, because the posting that drew this attention was my dad’s obituary.)) | -6% |
It’s pretty clear from the above that I was a lot less active on my blog and on Twitter this year – which is pretty much what I expected would happen once I started school. I was pleased to see that despite the decrease in blogging, I still managed to squeak out a slight increase in visits to my blog and I’m approaching my goal, as per my 101 list’s item #82 “up my blog readership to an average of 200 readers a day” ((Which should really say “views” per day, not readers, as the blog stat tracking thingy tracks viewers, not individual readers.)). Also, if you are so inclined, you can also check out the blogging annual report that the helper monkeys of WordPress were so kind as to compile for me.
Also, perusing through some of my old postings, I noticed that when I first started blogging my Nerd Stats for the year, I also included a list of all the books I’d read – or at least the ones I could remember – in the year. I’m sure I’m not going to remember all of them as I haven’t been tracking them, but to the best of my knowledge ((Where “my knowledge” = anything I wrote about on my blog, is sitting on my bookshelf that I can see and remember that I read, and was recorded by my e-reader.)), I read the following books in 2012 ((In no particular order. And for the textbooks, I didn’t read all of them from cover to cover – just the required chapters)):
- The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling
- World War Z by Max Brooks
- The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg ((In progress.)).
- Mortality by Christopher Hitchens
- The Happiness Project by Gretchn Rubin
- Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
- Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
- Flashforward by Robert J. Sawyer
- Your Brain at Work by David Rock
Textbooks:
- Financial Accounting in an Economic Context by Jamie Pratt
- Corporate Finance by Berke et al
- Fundamentals of Organizational Behaviour by Langton et al
- Managerial Economics (Custom Edition)
- Management Ethics by Bowie & Werhane
- plus countless journal articles and course notes!
And that, my friends, is my final blog posting for 2012! See y’all next year!
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