Holy Cow! 4000 page views for Icarus Rants!
It is human nature to enjoy feedback - we're hardwired that way. We like positive feedback, but in the absence of positive feedback, we'll wallow in negative feedback - simply because it's feedback (in which case it's a cross-purpose, since the animal brain wags its tail at all feedback, but the human ego can be crushed by negative feedback).
One of the fun ways to torture myself (and I understand I'm not alone in this) is by looking at the Google stats for my blog.
It is human nature to enjoy feedback - we're hardwired that way. We like positive feedback, but in the absence of positive feedback, we'll wallow in negative feedback - simply because it's feedback (in which case it's a cross-purpose, since the animal brain wags its tail at all feedback, but the human ego can be crushed by negative feedback).
One of the fun ways to torture myself (and I understand I'm not alone in this) is by looking at the Google stats for my blog.
The Google people are all about data collection (it's a search engine, after all), so they've got piles and piles of stat data.
Thank you for helping make this blog a fun ride!!
| view count | days (delta) |
days (total) | views per day during the period |
posts (delta) | posts (total) | views per post (total average) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1000 | 94 | 94 | 10.6 | 85 | 85 | 11.8 |
| 2000 | 72 | 166 | 13.9 | 52 | 137 | 14.6 |
| 3000 | 34 | 200 | 29.4 | 28 | 165 | 18.2 |
| 4000 | 21 | 221 | 47.6 | 16 | 181 | 22.1 |
I used the super-handy tool at Tables Generator to make the HTML for this page, after I mocked it up on Excel. (Normally, I prefer Google Sheets or OpenOffice Calc to Microsoft Excel, but in this one instance, I blasphemed and used Excel.)
If I really knew how to use Excel (or any spreadsheet), then I could put all this into a pretty graph showing this crazy steep curve that any skater would love to do stunts on.
I have a suspicion this kind of growth is unsustainable for a small blogger like me, but OTOH, this is the Interweb where hitting a tipping point can result in instant popularity.
Of course, while searching for tales of overnight success on the Interweb, I ran into this story about how - just like winning the lottery, or getting doxxed by a jackass/sicko/madman - the emotional roller-coaster and invasion of privacy can destroy your life.
So, um, now I'm torn. Do I want to have mega-popularity so my subversive goal of getting people to use their brains sneaks out into the world?
Or do I want to remain small-time and anonymous, because popularity is potentially dangerous?
Well, shit.
I'm still super-excited about 4000 page views! That means you guys like me!
Thank you for helping make this blog a fun ride!!
#IAmIcarus
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