As far as the election goes, right now it seems like those couple of weeks just after Christmas. Anti-climatic, nothings really going on, and you wish people would take down their friggin decorations.
I concur with Mark -- game night was fun. We're definitely going to have to make that a weekly thing, starting two weeks ago. I'll even go so far as to nominate myself (some purists might say 'volunteer') to keep it organized and let people know when, where and whats going on for a given week. (and hire goons to make them show up)
I looked for software that might keep track of blogging statistics, but I couldnt find any. Then I thought about writing software when I couldnt find any. But then I remembered the guy who said "People go through a lot of work not to actually sit down and think about a good way to do something" (or something like that... I think it was Thomas Edison or Henry Ford) (of course, if theyre so smart, how come they're dead?) So anyway, I ended up counting things by hand... (see my 11/1 post) though I'm not quite done yet, here are some preliminary results:
(I took out the results since they werent complete and wont mean anything when they are done. Read the next post.)
The thing about counting by hand is, if you think of a statistic you want to add later on, you dont want to go back and count it, because its more tedious than, say, adding a few lines to a Perl script. But I figured number of posts, and total words posted would be pretty fair indicators of how active somebody was for a given time period. So those up there are the totals, and I'll describe my methodology:
The stats come from the archives, so if any archives were lost, they obviously arent counted. First, I counted the posts per person per month. Then, for every person I cut and pasted each of their posts for a given month into a Word file. Then I said "word count" and when nothing happened, I selected "word count" from the "tools" menu and thats how I got the words per month. Then I created some cells that would total all the numbers in an Excel file. I'll release the Excel file when I'm done.
Right now, theres about 10 months I havent done yet. They're not the past 10 months, they're the months where the blog became the "Martin and Jeremy Blog" and later the "Martin completely overpowers everybody in terms of posting Blog"
And another thing: I'm not entirely sure how MS Word counts the words, but I'm hoping that diffeneces in peoples posting styles will statistically cancel out. Also, I neglected "empty posts" so the number of posts wont match Blogger's official count when I'm done. (I've only found 2 so far though)
I also neglected audio blogs... because they never caught on (there were 2, I think) and I'm not that anal. (only anal enough to count all this shit)
I concur with Mark -- game night was fun. We're definitely going to have to make that a weekly thing, starting two weeks ago. I'll even go so far as to nominate myself (some purists might say 'volunteer') to keep it organized and let people know when, where and whats going on for a given week. (and hire goons to make them show up)
I looked for software that might keep track of blogging statistics, but I couldnt find any. Then I thought about writing software when I couldnt find any. But then I remembered the guy who said "People go through a lot of work not to actually sit down and think about a good way to do something" (or something like that... I think it was Thomas Edison or Henry Ford) (of course, if theyre so smart, how come they're dead?) So anyway, I ended up counting things by hand... (see my 11/1 post) though I'm not quite done yet, here are some preliminary results:
(I took out the results since they werent complete and wont mean anything when they are done. Read the next post.)
The thing about counting by hand is, if you think of a statistic you want to add later on, you dont want to go back and count it, because its more tedious than, say, adding a few lines to a Perl script. But I figured number of posts, and total words posted would be pretty fair indicators of how active somebody was for a given time period. So those up there are the totals, and I'll describe my methodology:
The stats come from the archives, so if any archives were lost, they obviously arent counted. First, I counted the posts per person per month. Then, for every person I cut and pasted each of their posts for a given month into a Word file. Then I said "word count" and when nothing happened, I selected "word count" from the "tools" menu and thats how I got the words per month. Then I created some cells that would total all the numbers in an Excel file. I'll release the Excel file when I'm done.
Right now, theres about 10 months I havent done yet. They're not the past 10 months, they're the months where the blog became the "Martin and Jeremy Blog" and later the "Martin completely overpowers everybody in terms of posting Blog"
And another thing: I'm not entirely sure how MS Word counts the words, but I'm hoping that diffeneces in peoples posting styles will statistically cancel out. Also, I neglected "empty posts" so the number of posts wont match Blogger's official count when I'm done. (I've only found 2 so far though)
I also neglected audio blogs... because they never caught on (there were 2, I think) and I'm not that anal. (only anal enough to count all this shit)
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