OMFG I am a train spotter
As I write this my partner Jodi is whizzing cross country from Liverpool to London on the Virgin Pendolino tilting train.
She is speaking at a conference tomorrow, and during our text chat I asked what train she was on, so I could get a picture and shoot it back to her.
Geek
Nice pic, she then asked me if there was any stats. Geek
The technology of the day has turned me into a cyber trainspotter and I love it. I now know for example that the pendolino has a top speed of 135mph up from 125mph after track upgrades in 2005. It has seating for 439 passengers, but averages 224 per train, and emits 76% less CO2 than same journey by car or plane. This stat comes from a study by ECCM Ltd based on flights between London, Manchester, Glasgow and Liverpool. Are we to assume from this that cars produce the same emissions as planes.
Re-calculate your carbon footprint and re-book your overseas holidays..
Note: If you had wondered what OMFG is an abbreviation for, here is the long winded version to clarify.
Obscurus Mesozoic Fenestrosaurus Gizzard
April 30th, 2007
I have been reading an article on the sitepoint forums
The article concerning traffic, or indeed the lack of to the authors website. I am in a similar situation, looking to my stats daily and seeing no page impressions.
Time to go PROACTIVE
Quality content is a must, that’s a given. I know I personally am not gonna stick around if the subject is uninteresting, or it is regurgatated old news.
That being said, I have been paranoid at the mere possibility that someone might actually read any of this, which to be fair can often stifle the creative process.
Signed up to del.icio.us, not in the game yet.
and the above services, I guess we’ll just have to see how it pans out.
Also started an account with google analytics.
I’ll put some data up soon, to keep tabs on progress.
I’m sure it will become clearer as I write more often, strategies to be considered, time essentially to be set aside for the writing of content that might be worthy of reading.
Some Initial Results
I have some results from my first week, not quite sure yet how to fully utilise all the information from these stats, to get the most benefit from the programme.
I think the majority of visits, are from source, being me, and there is a lot of material to look at and interpret.
If you look at the pie chart below however, there are a few encouraging results.
So it seems bloghop and blogararma have kicked in since I signed up good news, although as I previously mentioned, am not quite sure what all this means in terms of generating visitors.
One of the contributors to the forum suggested that one post at a time was the way forward, and I think that is to be my main strategy from now on.
April 22nd, 2007
