My cyber-friend, Blake, at I Hate Stairs, tells me he has had a problem posting a comment here at How To Be An Inspiration.
As far as I can tell all is well this end but knowing my expertise with
computers and internet type things I will be the last to know if my
blog has contracted a problem. I would be most grateful if a few of you
reading this would leave a comment so I can see if the problem is wide
spread. If you do have a problem please drop me a line at –
h2bai*stephendeal.org (replace the * with a @ to help foil those nasty
spammers). Thanks Blake for bringing it to my attention, but I hope you
don't mind if I wish the problem was yours because you, at least, have
a fighting chance of knowing how to fix it. I've found that weeping and
banging the computer with a shoe has very little maintenance or
restorative properties. Meanwhile, check out Blake's wheelchair stalking post. Be afraid, very afraid.
Over
at Disaboom, where I also post these posts, cherylberyl has asked how I
came up with the figures I did for the Disaboom posts when I wrote I'm 100 Today!
Okay. Well, Disaboom, although a marvellous resource, is pretty useless
when it comes to tracking your blog's statistics so a degree of
extrapolation is required. Google Analytics provides a smorgasbord of
statistics for my How To Be An Inspiration site, so I know how many
visitors I have per day and per month. I also know if it is the same
demented soul visiting time and time again or lots of discerning
individuals visiting once or twice. So, at Disaboom I total up the
number of visits per post for the last month (not the last 30 posts)
and divide by 30. This gives me an average number of visitors per day.
Google Analytics reveals that I have, for example, 900 visits from 300
unique visitors over the last month on How To Be An Inspiration, so
assuming Disaboom blog readers behave in much the same way as Google
blog readers (and I realise that's a major assumption) then if I have
had, say, 1500 visits to my Disaboom posts over the last 30 days then
it is likely that 1/3 are unique visitors. Therefore it is not
unreasonable to say I have a regular Disaboom readership of 500
individuals in this example. Yes, I know there are a lot of assumptions
but until Disaboom stop treating every post as an unique blog then it's
the best I can do. Tim, if you are reading this, maybe you can help.
And finally, a few months a go I joined Facebook,
which once you get past the countless invitations to hug, grow flowers,
drink beer and all manner of cyber-silliness, has proven to be great
fun, putting me back in touch with several people from my dim and
distant past. (Hi Brian, Tony, Jonathon etc.) I have been trying to get
this blog to show up on my Facebook page but it seems to require large
numbers of people prepared to concede that I write this before it will
let me, and even more people prepared to admit they read it before any
meaningful statistics can be gathered. If you are on Facebook, and have
not already done so, then please, be my 'friend'. I'll be yours. Look
for Stephen Deal and this photo.
Thank you for reading.
