No one is “exactly the same” on social media as they are at home. I’m not even sure it’s possible. The process of writing about your life changes it.
Statistics
A MONDAY MORNING DAWDLE
The Dawdler What’s a typical or average day look like for you from when you awaken to the day to when you retire for the night? I finally give up trying to sleep. I listen to whatever book I’m into… Read More ›
STATS AND OTHER BIG NUMBERS
IN RESPONSE (IN PART) TO “VIEWS” BY FANDANGO We all want to know why some posts are popular and the rest? Not so much. Everyone wants to know the secret. I think the secret is getting Google to notice you… Read More ›
FPQ #107: HIATUS OR JUST WIFI INTERRUPTUS? ROUND TWO!
Fandango’s Provocative Question #107: HIATUS For all practical purposes, I am on hiatus. There is just so much stuff that I have time for. I don’t have the time to deal with running up posts every day and still managing my… Read More ›
HOT ONES AND COLD ONES – Marilyn Armstrong
A couple of years ago, I discovered my most popular post was black & white pictures of implements in my kitchen. Also well-favored were cute pictures of Bonnie and a 300-word piece on why I’d like to be called “Spike.”… Read More ›
RERUNNING AND REWRITING ONE’S OWN MATERIAL – Marilyn Armstrong
I’ve written more than 10,205 posts. I have rewritten several dozens of these and reblogged a few more. After rewriting, most of the posts are so altered I barely recognize them. A few others I rerun because I like them…. Read More ›
STATS FOR THE FIRST HALF OF 2019 – Marilyn Armstrong
FOWC with Fandango — Stats This is a good time of year to look at statistics. It’s just past the middle of the year and in theory, it should give you a reasonably good idea what the year will look like…. Read More ›
STATS AND BUMPS ALONG THE WAY – Marilyn Armstrong
During my first three years of blogging, I got around 100, then 200, then 250 to 300 views per day. In year four, it slid up to around 350 to 400. Where it stayed, showing a gradual, slow but steady… Read More ›
LIFE. EXPONENTIALLY. – By Tom Curley
Did you see DJT on Fox and Friends this morning? Or maybe you saw him on Colbert this evening. He was also on the evening news, so if you watched TV at all, you saw him. It was also all… Read More ›
LIVING EXPONENTIALLY – Tom Curley
Did you see DJT on Fox and Friends this morning? Or maybe you saw it on Colbert this evening. It was also on the evening news, so if you watched TV at all, you saw it. It was also all… Read More ›
THEN I UNDERSTOOD WORDPRESS AND WHAT’S HAPPENING – Marilyn Armstrong
I reread the letter from this engineer and I realized suddenly, with a certain horror, what it means to me, to you, to all of us who have been here for a while and built sites. WordPress decided to change… Read More ›
LOSING IS THE OTHER SIDE OF WINNING – SUPER BOWL LII
Since the Patriots became a “real” football team in 2001, there have been 18 super bowls. The Patriots won five. Lost three. The other 10 Super Bowls were won by other teams and the Patriots weren’t in the game. The… Read More ›
THE MOST POPULAR POSTS OF 2017
These are not necessarily my favorite posts, though a few are. These are posts that got a lot of hits — and are not reblogs. I also — with one exception — didn’t include photo-only posts. It was too much… Read More ›
GOOGLE BUMPS
For my first three years of blogging, I got around 100, then 200, then 250 to 300 views per day. In year four, it slid up to around 350 to 400. Where it stayed, showing a gradual, slow but steady upward… Read More ›
FAME WITH OBSCURITY: A PECULIAR ACHIEVEMENT
A PECULIAR OBSCURITY I am occasionally stunned at how many hits I can get on a particular day. It happens once in a while, usually for no reason I can understand. It used to happen whenever the season premier episode “Gazing Through… Read More ›
HALF A MILLION – A LOT OF VIEWS
We have a small pond in our woods. It’s way far back and though I can see it from two windows in the house, I have never been there. There’s no path. Getting there would mean climbing boulders and crossing… Read More ›
SERENDIPITY: SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 