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Annual Report – 2012
Fresh off the presses from the talented wordpress.com team, here are BD00’s vital blog stats for fiscal year 2012.
BD00’s sole proprietorship business met all of his lofty goals for 2012: zero revenues, zero expenses, and zero growth. The plan for 2013 calls for a 25% increase across the board. It’ll be tough, but optimal deployment of resources and flawless execution of strategy will guarantee success.
The Search For Accountability
As I’ve said several times before, WordPress.com is a sweet blogging platform. One of the many metrics that the customer-and-product obsessed WordPress team provides to its users is the list of terms that people have searched to land on your blog:
As you can see, the search term “accountability” dominates all others. WTF is up wit dat? It also looks like people want to learn more about “CSCIs, CSCs, and CSUs“. The funny ones are “lighten up francis“, “firing squad“, and “disco dancer“. I’m humbled by the fact that some people searched for BD00 directly with “site:bulldozer00.com” and “bulldozer00“. lol.
So, when are you gonna expose yourself to the world and start blogging your thoughts, feelings, and opinions? One of the tag lines of the best boss I ever had was “don’t keep it a secret“. BD00 has internalized it with the addition of “no matter how much it hurtz“.
Sticks and stones may break my bones. But chains and whips excite me. – Rihanna
World Reknowned
WordPress.com is such a sweet blogging platform. The team keeps innovating and adding useful, customer-friendly features to the site. Here’s a recent addition to the stats page that enumerates page hits by country:
It’s thrilling to see people outside of the USA stopping by and taking a peek at bulldozer00.com. I anxiously await the arrival of viewers from North Korea, Cuba, Iran, the glorious nation of Kazakhstan, and the mud lands of Elbonia.
Still Waiting…..
Holy shite! Look at what my wordpress blog dashboard says today:
One thousand freakin’ published posts. BD00 is quite the bullsh*t l’artiste, no?
Alas, I’m still waiting for my….
Spamspeak
I don’t get many comments on this blog, but I sure do get a lot of spam (my favorite college food!). WordPress.com has an effective spam-detecting plugin from Askimet that magically tags suspicious comments and allows me to be the final arbiter. Here are the latest cumulative spam stats from my blog dashboard:
“Ham” comments (451) are deemed legit by the plugin, missed spam (6) is commentary that made it through the filter which I tagged as spam, and false positives (8) are comments tagged as spam that I changed to “ham“. I usually automatically approve of Askimet’s decisions, but I do get a kick out of occasionally browsing the spammentary:
“Thats really very nice blog, I am impressed.i like it this blog keep it up thanks for post.”
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“Wow! This can be 1 of the top blogs I’ve actually arrive throughout on this subject. Merely Magnificent”
“You got numerous positive points there. I made a search on the issue and found nearly all peoples will agree with your blog.”
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2010 Blog Metrics From WordPress.Com
Note: The content of this post was auto-generated by the folks at WordPress.com.
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:
The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.
Crunchy numbers
A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 10,000 times in 2010. That’s about 24 full 747s.
In 2010, there were 350 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 587 posts. There were 614 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 25mb. That’s about 2 pictures per day.
The busiest day of the year was March 2nd with 127 views. The most popular post that day was Strongly Typed.
Where did they come from?
The top referring sites in 2010 were linkedin.com, Google Reader, en.wordpress.com, and stumbleupon.com.
Some visitors came searching, mostly for quantum physics, do you design the classes diagrams before writing code, accountability, sysml, and quantum.
Attractions in 2010
These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.
Strongly Typed February 2010
8 comments
UML And SysML March 2009
2 comments
Quantum Consciousness July 2009
1 comment
What The Hell’s A Unit? November 2009
About Me March 2009
2 comments
What’s Up With Featured Blogs?
WordPress.com provides the capability for users to browse blog posts by clicking on a subject tag. After clicking on a tag of interest, the results page displays a bunch of blog posts that authors have marked with that tag. As the (egotistical and self-serving) screen snippet below illustrates, the first listed blog post at the top of the page is somehow designated as the “featured blog“.
Out of curiosity (which is judged as a sin inside of most religious and corpo institutions), I briefly searched for the criteria/algorithm that wordpress.com uses to select the “featured blog” of the day, but I couldn’t find it. However, I did find a bunch of vain, self-congratulatory posts just like this yawner.
Why am I here?
WTF?
Meh!
D'oh!
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