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Need to do a fairly simple post today — too much going on for a real thought-y one:<\/p>\nNeed to do a fairly simple post today — too much going on for a real thought-y one:<\/p>\n
So I’m pulling out the cheapest stunt in the lazy blogger’s bag-o’-tricks: wondering about the site’s cumulative statistics — page visits and such, and what it all “means” (to the extent it can be determined to mean anything).<\/p>\n
We had a houseguest this week — a friend of us both (especially The Missus) who, like us, was a member of our old “biweekly Algonquin<\/a>” writing workshop. We haven’t seen The Professor in something like nine years so naturally, in the process of catching up, we started talking about current writing projects.<\/p>\n “Why are you doing a blog?” she asked me.<\/p>\n Uh…<\/p>\n I’m still trying to figure that out. Obviously, the daily routine forces me to write — but I could do that to greater effect, perhaps, if I instead worked on something “real.”*<\/p>\n And I think The Boy within also fantasizes that random lightning will strike. Some famous editor or agent or, who knows, maybe Ellen Degeneres or one of the Weinsteins will land here while searching for something else, and suddenly realize, simultaneously, (a) what s\/he has been missing all this time and (b) that every other powerful person has so far overlooked it, too.<\/p>\n Whatever my purpose might be, I know what I meant (and have succeeded) not<\/em> to do with Running After My Hat<\/em> is to write about just one thing, or two things, or even three or four things, All. The. Time. I happily read and admire blogs which do so but it would bore the living daylights out of me to write<\/em> such a blog. (I know this because I’ve done it, or tried to.)<\/p>\n Anyhow, I decided to go back through the statistics collected by the little Sitemeter program in effect here (and lots of other places), just to see where most visitors landed when they got here.<\/p>\n Now, most visitors to RAMH<\/em> (and probably to most blogs) enter the site through the home page. They have it bookmarked that way, or they’re following a link from somebody else’s blogroll. That sort of thing. I’m not counting visits which started out at the home page, because visitors there don’t (often) know specifically<\/em> what they’re looking for. Instead, I’m looking at visits which began at specific<\/em> pages within the blog.**<\/p>\n Below, the top 25 so-called “entry pages” on RAMH<\/em>, in descending order from most to least often entered. I’d laugh to think of these as “2008’s greatest hits” (one of them is already from 2009) — really, I’ve posted only about 225 entries since starting, in April.<\/p>\n Nevertheless, I’m charmed that visitors found the following 25 pages, mostly via search engines, without knowing anything of me or of Running After My Hat<\/em>.<\/p>\n