Category Archives: Blogging

stat tools

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TIANo, I’m not talking about boring jerks who corner you in bars and flash their Technorati rankings; I’m talking about useful programs or sites to help you take your raw hit data and extract the meaning that’s lurking deep within. Stat charts are like lab charts; they can tell you a lot about the health of your relationship to your readers.

A salute to the highly organized Pete Quily for being efficient enough to write these down and post them to the Wiki while I was busy yapping.

Google Analytics

Stat Counter

Hit tail

Crazy Egg

Measure Map

103 Bees

My Blog Log

someone also mentioned   Mint

And of course, we all agreed that Alexa sucks donkey dick.

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stats: the forbidden love

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This is the so-called lecture, in actuality dialogue, that I gave at Moosecamp, which is the first, more free-form day, of the Northern Voice Blogging Conference. It was my intention to get people talking about the simple right to care about hits, but it turned out that this was taken as a given and we went off on all kinds of tangents. I’m a big tangent person, so I love this. Here’s the whole podcast, thanks to Podcastspot.com; I shall never again question the relevance of podcasts.

I’ll snippet the bits of wisdom and the URL’s later.

http://northernvoice.podcastspot.com/episodes/61B26D/download/mp3_96

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the strangest compliment

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We’re all drawn to weird little things. Some men fancy a dainty ankle far more than a massive set of bazoombas. Some painters notice the way someone puts their colours together, or the effect of sunset light on the colour of beach grass.

I am drawn to funky glasses, and I do not mean the cocktail variety (although that, of course, goes without saying).

And what do I say when I see a really cool set of glasses on the face of a total stranger? Why, I walk up to that stranger and I say,

“Those are really cool glasses…

They’re totally German Graphic Designer.”

It’s just what I do. And today at the Northern Voice Blogging Conference I did it to Maryam (that’s right, nobody drops a name like raincoaster…and she’s probably going “who?”).

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raincoaster feed is the most nourishing

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My feed...best in the west

It has become apparent to me over the past few days, for obvious reasons that will be clarified by a momentary glance at the Feed Reader Subscriptions graph above, that the ol’ raincoaster blog has lately gained popularity with those of the geeky persuasion. To them we say
Welcome, and pass the calamari!

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the search for meaning is itself meaningless…but I’m okay with that.

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TIAGod himself only knows how it was that a poor, overworked and obviously demented search engine, perhaps tired of finding the answers to only the most meaningless questions, reached out with the fragile query “Church etiquette for teenagers” and came up with my blog.

Other search engine items that led here:

and the immortal

Let it not be said that we at the ol’ raincoaster blog fail to come through for you, however righteous, gastrically distressed, scientifically curious, or obscene you may be.

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