February busiest month at ttahko.net
As it says in the title, this February was the busiest month of the website/blog to date, with 747 unique visitors, 2876 visits, and just over 30k hits. No doubt this has something to do with the fact that I’ve been updating the blog a bit more frequently. The site is now almost a year old, and this could mean that it’s time for some changes, but the format seems to work and I’m too lazy to revamp the graphics right now.
The one thing that is still missing is feedback: the blog doesn’t get many comments. These posts are also direcly imported to my account on Facebook, and there I do get some comments and discussion, but it would be nice to see some here as well, as the audience on Facebook is limited to my friends. Feedback would also help me to determine how much of the traffic here is actually from legit/returning visitors.
So, if you are a frequent visitor to my blog, the least you could do is to tell me what you would like to see here so that I can make the website and blog more interesting to any visitors that I may have. So far the blog has been dominated by philosophy posts, and specifically posts about papers that I’m working on, but I would quite like to extend on that a bit. Here are some suggestions for content, tell me what you’d like to see:
-Philosophy ‘work in progress’ posts of the sort that I have been doing a lot.
-General philosophy posts about random subjects.
-Philosophy news, CFPs, issues in profession, funding, teaching, and so on.
-Updates to my Gallery, selected shots from albums.
-More photos?
-General photography posts such as photography tips and news about new gear etc.
-IT/Technology news and commentary.
-Reviews of gadgets etc. There will be one post in this category coming up very soon…
-Something else?
Oh, and if I don’t get any comments on this post, I’ll just assume that my audience consists of spam robots…
Dear Tuomas,
your blog is excellent. Really. And i’m not a robot!
Please give me some time to think about your requests.
See you!
A.
Thanks Anna, good to know that you’re not a robot!
Being an analytical philosopher, well I will analyse the issue; but I think that the main problem is the time rather than the interest. For writing a note requires some… inspiration. Well, it seems that you have easily the necessary inspiration… Many people simply don’t have it…
You know I’m no bot.
I like photos…and travel reports…and other non-philosophy stuff. Anything I can understand, basically.
Book reviews? Philosophy for laymen?
Thanks sis’, book reviews is actually a nice idea, although I read too little fiction nowadays. We’ll see…
Oh, Anna, you’re probably right that people rarely have the time or inspiration to comment on stuff — I follow about 20 blogs myself, but very rarely comment on them.
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I vote for ‘general philosophy posts’. I like to read blog posts that give an interesting philosophical idea or observation in a relatively short space (~1pg). If they’re too long or too technical I’ll start skimming or stop reading altogether; if I’m going to put that much time and effort in, I might as well read a real journal article. But I read and like stuff like your post on varieties of modality. (My browsing history: philosophers’ carnival->varieties of modality->here.)
Thanks Kenny, that’s a good point: I do the same as you when faced with very long or technical posts. Although I have to admit that I sometimes struggle to keep mine short & sweet. Will try to do that in the future though!