What’s the most important (or interesting, or unexpected) thing about blogging you know today that you didn’t know a month ago?
What’s that little something
I’ve learnt over the past month
That I didn’t know before
About blogging?
It’s just this:
When I read something interesting,
Worth sharing, worth re-reading,
Worth saving, worth referring to.
I should shout out from the rooftops,
“Yes, friends, I Reddit and I Digg it when I StumbleUpon it.”
—Linus Fernandes.
Dear Readers:
I have discovered a brand new platform, Medium, to host my posts.
For starters, I have begun posting articles from my secondary blog, Make Time For Sports, at the site. The initial posts are identical in style and content to the originals but I have since decided to combine five to six posts in a digest-like format and publish them on the platform.
Thus, you can expect a lag from the time they are published on my site and on Medium. If, of course, you cannot wait, you are welcome to visit my blog and catch them earlier.
Medium’s editor is markedly different, very minimalistic and unobtrusive. Once you learn to use it, you will fall in love with it. I did.
Medium, like WordPress, provides the functionality of sharing your draft with whoever you wish to seek input or feedback from. [Not that I have used the functionality, yet, but I am more than willing to, if someone (anyone) will put up his or her hand.]
This , for now, is all my experience with Medium.
Do not forget to visit my posts there.
My profile: https://medium.com/@linusjulianfernandes
Cheers,
Linus
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14,237 | |
 WordPress.com Reader |
281 | |
 Facebook |
277 | |
 blogtopsites.com |
274 | |
 WordPress Dashboard |
194 | |
 Twitter |
191 | |
 en.wordpress.com |
141 | |
 StumbleUpon |
122 | |
 dailypost.wordpress.com |
113 | |
 linkedin.com |
86 | |
| brandalyzer.wordpress.com |
84 | |
| indiblogger.in |
78 | |
 Google |
67 | |
| bleacherreport.com |
64 | |
| mostlyeconomics.wordpress.com |
52 | |
| mail.yahoo.com |
50 | |
| maketimeforsports.com |
42 | |
| loveandotherdifficulties.wordpress.com |
42 | |
 google.co.in |
34 | |
| edge.papercutpm.com |
32 |
Followers of this blog will have noticed that there have been no original posts since the beginning of this year.
The story:
I have taken a sabbatical from writing; the quotes will continue—hard,fast and strong.
Till then!
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 14,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 5 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:
The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is on fire!.
The average container ship can carry about 4,500 containers. This blog was viewed about 15,000 times in 2010. If each view were a shipping container, your blog would have filled about 3 fully loaded ships.
In 2010, there were 1,371 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 1,441 posts. There were 92 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 16mb. That’s about 2 pictures per week.
The busiest day of the year was April 29th with 141 views. The most popular post that day was ITIL.
The top referring sites in 2010 were blogtopsites.com, blogsurfer.us, WordPress Dashboard, google.co.in, and facebook.com.
Some visitors came searching, mostly for facebook status quotes, intriguing facebook status, venky’s chicken, project management quotes, and nooriya haveliwala.
These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.
ITIL April 2010
Intriguing Facebook Status Quotes July 2010
1 Like on WordPress.com,
The Women’s Reservation Bill – Boon Or Bane? April 2010
Overstock.Com OSTK January 2010
It has come to my attention that certain individuals are going around yelling ‘GIVE UP’ and other such imprecations and misleading people that they are doing so as representative of my actions. This is an attempt at mischief by some ill-meaning miscreants and I would ask you or anyone else to not take them at face value.
I have neither requested nor incited nor persuaded any individual or group to perform these actions either on my behalf or any one else’s.
Nor am I responsible or accountable for the action(s) of any group or individual who purport to do so.
If you encounter such individual(s) or group(s), I request you to ask them to refrain from associating their actions and deeds from yours truly.
Sincerely,
Linus Fernandes
Image by john curley via Flickr
In this age where dysfunctional behaviour is winked at, it is refreshing to note that the organizers of the Meter Jam campaign have taken another step forward by adding an offline component to their online avatar.
Area volunteers will be created in a bid to create awareness in the general public of commuter rights.
At the same time, Hindustan Times have launched a Facebook fan-page called HT Mumbai First that is dedicated to tracking genuine complaints , which are then forwarded to the traffic police department.
Just two interesting movements FYI!
Weekly Stats Report: Sep 6 – Sep 12 2010
Project: Rubber Tyres
URL: http://linusfernandes.com
| Mon | Tues | Wed | Thur | Fri | Sat | Sun | Total | Avg | |
| Pageloads | 39 | 34 | 37 | 30 | 29 | 45 | 60 | 274 | 39 |
| Unique Visitors | 31 | 30 | 33 | 28 | 25 | 30 | 46 | 223 | 32 |
| First Time Visitors | 29 | 30 | 31 | 28 | 25 | 29 | 43 | 215 | 31 |
| Returning Visitors | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 1 |
Rubber Tyres --> Smooth Rides 