I have a tough time with major holidays like Easter. Say the Mass, do the eggs and candy with the kids, choke down some desiccated ham — then what? It would be a relief to run to the net to read, but, of course, everyone else is doing the same damn things — some more graciously than others. You crave new content, but there won’t be any new content until Monday.<\/p>\n
The same goes for us, too, I expect. I have some numbers I may want to post about later, but I doubt that there will be a lot of other new stuff.<\/p>\n
But: How about a lot of old stuff? Friday night I ran our stats, and Saturday Cathy built an Excel tool to combine them into something meaningful. Not canonically<\/i> meaningful, mind you. What we can calculate are hard clicks on specific posts. Most people read BloodhoundBlog by RSS feed. Many more read from the front page, seeing some or all of the most-recent 15 posts at any given time. Hard clicks, clicks into specific posts, denote a special interest from feed readers, an off-site or on-site link, a desire to comment or to read comments, a Google search, etc.<\/p>\n
What we end up with is a list of our 50 most popular posts as expressed by people who pulled the trigger on their mice. This is a reasonably reliable if not perfect measure of popularity. In any case, it’s what we have, so it will have to do.<\/p>\n
Many of these posts were written by me. I write a lot, and I’ve been writing on BloodhoundBlog longer than anyone else. As you’ll see, many of these entries have enduring appeal, so our other contributors will account for more and more of our Top 50 as we go along.<\/p>\n
Anyway, if you’re as bored as I am on Easter, divert yourself onto the paths of our past. Just remember, it’s not an escape from tedium, it’s professional development.<\/p>\n
I have a tough time with major holidays like Easter. Say the Mass, do the eggs and candy with the kids, choke down some desiccated ham — then what? 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