Minute Tech 052: Is Your Voice the Best Communications Medium?

- Twitter Takes a Break, & Pew Spews Percentages;
- Is Your Voice the Best Communications Medium?
- Minute Tech Blog Seeks Redesign.

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Show Transcript

..alex.

Minute Tech 044: What is Ice Skating?

- Oil is up, Oil is Down, Imus is up, Apple is Down;
- What is Ice Skating?
- Toyboxcar Leads Me to Scribd.com.

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Show Notes

..alex.

Minute Tech 022: What is glass?

Dale Chihuly's glass sculpture is incredibly beautiful; when juxtaposed with natural plantings, or as natural as you can get in an oversized terrarium, they seek to mimic CBLF's with SiBLF's:

the outline for todays show:
- Space shuttle set for daytime landing; Chinese lunar orbiter;
- What is glass?
- Jeremiah Owyang describes his use of Twitter.

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..Alex.

Learning Accelerates Itself - GA & this new venture.

I don't yet know what my audience feels about this podcast...but I'm glad I instituted Google Analytics on day 1 of the podcast, as I can begin to see traffic patterns. From reviewing GA this evening, I can see:

I've had, in the past ten days these raw stats:
- 92 pageviews;
- 61 unique views;
- 52.08% bounce rate
- 68 pageviews of the root (or index) level
- from 3 to 8 pageviews of non-root pages
- a peak amount of 14 visits on Monday, October 14th.

-- from this (specifically the 68 views of the main page) I can see that when I post URL's on Twitter, Facebook or MySpace I should probably give the specific blog URL rather than the main page URL. Also, what accounts for the 14 visitors on Monday? I think alot of that could be due to an e-mail I sent to colleagues at work about the Williamsburg podcast from the just-past weekend.

Fun stuff (does this mean much?):
Browser & OS - % of visitors:
- IE on Windows - 45.8%
- Safari on Mac - 39.6%
- Firefox on Mac - 8.3%
- Firefox on Windows - 6.25%

My main concern: how can I tell how much of this is from me checking my blog site, or from me editing the blog, and then "viewing" the results? Any of it? I'll have to cross-check my browser, OS, ISP and screen-resolution (all data that GA tracks) and try to weed out the effect of my own visits.

So...learning about analyzing stats on a website. What does this do? It allows one to see how the web industry is gauging itself, how it might be doing various things to optimize it's collective or individual presence on the web, and how a business might spring up from the need to interpret these Delphic wisps of vapor for the general business user who may be missing some very important statistics about his or her company's impact via their web presence.

More later as I learn it. :-)

..Alex.

Minute Tech 010: What is stock?

Apple's 3rd quarter earnings release is after the NASDAQ market close today, so several pertinent topics for this mornings Minute Tech podcast:

- Apple, Inc. earnings release 4 pm EST;
- What is stock?
- My intro to social media sites.

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..Alex.