Saturday, October 18, 2014

"... & Statistics"

Reading about Silicon Valley's would-be libertarian kings & their sycophants, one of whom claims to have had 500,000 weasels visit his blogspot, which he's been running for about two wks. longer than this enterprise has been chugging its way to obscurity.
Moldbuggism, for now, remains mostly an Internet phenomenon. Which is not to say it is “merely” an Internet phenomenon. This is, after all, a technological age. Last November, Yarvin claimed that his blog had received 500,000 views. It is not quantity of his audience that matters so much as the nature of it, however.
Frankly, I'm not impressed.
No idea when the half-a-million mark was hit here, but I'm guessing it was earlier than a yr. ago November. (Thought I typed something about it, but can't find it in 19 soon to be 18 short of 12,000 items posted here.) Not that Google stats are in the least trustworthy. Note the graph, which has stats beginning July 2006. A yr. before this started. And if the lowest month for page-views was 16,000+, how can there only have been a million seven over 89 mos.?

In other stats, a Toshiba lap-top battery will last almost six yrs. I bought this devil-box at the end of October 2008 & the battery gave up the ghost last wknd. when it was disconnected it from the A.C. while running during new modem installation.
Although it had stopped holding much more than a 10-min. charge a couple of yrs. ago.

1 comment:

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said...

Not that Google stats are in the least trustworthy.

Indeed. Google claims numbers way higher than sitemeter says.

I think Google counts every time I refresh the post to check the floating blog roll, while sitemeter says, "Nah, we already counted you."
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