I am a 20th century creature. I thought of my blog as a public diary - a place where other interested people may come upon occasion to see what I've been thinking about. Turns out that one of my students last year started a facebook fan page for me. I don't facebook myself but Irene does and when she leaves herself logged in, I confess to checking the fan page to see which former and current students & friends have shown up there.
So, recently (some of you are probably reading this post via facebook), the facebook fan page has been pulling content from this blog and pushing it out into the facebook world. Some of you have been spammed by these posts (I am wearing an especially cool sweater and striking a fancy pose in my facebook fan picture) and I have mixed feelings about this. In principle, I don't mind but I just hope the pushing of blog content doesn't change my postings (ooops - it just did!).
I just checked one of my
earliest blog entries, and I do feel that having a forum to write my thoughts down has been a positive thing. Writing down thoughts requires more discipline than simply thinking them and knowing others may read them forces a certain integrity in process that I would not impose on myself otherwise. So, hooray for blogging and the 21st century!
In this 21st century, everything is tracked and google analytics tells me that over 450 people have taken a look at the site for an average of 2.2 minutes per visit since I started the blog last June (2009).
Here is a pie chart generated by google to show the breakdown by network location of the visitors (who knew they could do that?) (Wayland Public Schools is the 7th most popular provider - hmmm....)
I find it a bit upsetting that now that some of your FB fans are presumably reading your blog entries via the FB feed, you no longer have an accurate picture of your audience! Google Analytics can't account for your FB readership!
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