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April by the Numbers

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In the past few months, I’ve been paying attention to blog statistics. Sometimes I learn something useful. I’m not sure what you readers get from these posts, but my statistics say a lot of you read them, so I’ll keep it up. Read More

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March by the Numbers

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Photo by Gratisography

While I am learning how to write at the Iceland Writers Retreat, here is a quick look at what my statistics page has to tell me about what I wrote on this blog in March.

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Statistically Speaking: January

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This year, I am trying to learn from my blog stats, but as usual, in January I was distracted by the more creative search terms that led to this site:

 

 

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2013 Crooked Road in Review

The WordPress.com blog statistics helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog.

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Here’s an excerpt:

A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 3,700 times in 2013. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 3 trips to carry that many people.

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Iceland Airwaves by the Numbers

Iceland Airwaves 2012 poster

Uber-geek Souvenir

 

In science there is only physics. All the rest is stamp collecting. – Ernest Rutherford.

 

Maybe it’s because I used to be a stamp collector (molecular genetics lab tech), but I can’t resist the urge to measure things that don’t really need to be measured. Iceland Airwaves was a five-day MFA program in music that quite literally changed the way I hear music. When I came home, I put on my old CDs and sometimes I could barely recognize the once-familiar music – I just heard different things.

That should be enough. But no, useless data must follow.

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