I don’t keep blog stats. I’m sure it would be no thing to install sitemeter but then I’d have Feral Mom’s problem with it (scroll down to #10). The less I know about my readership, the better.
But I do get questions. Last night at dinner a friend asked me how many people read my blog. I honestly have no idea. It’s hard to tell. What with rss and all that these days. I have on more than a few occasions met people who knew me by my blog first.
Textpattern provides a rudimentary tool for logging visits to the site, and so in the spirit of Steven Rubio’s series of posts about the subject, here are a list of topics that have brought people to sterneworks.org in the last few days (this is the main site, not the blog, as far as I can tell):
“jonathan sterne” (more than once–I’m famous on the internets!)
“the problem of two bodies”
“alexander graham bell” (image search)
“what kills inspiration?”
“MLA+ASA+SCMS”
“ear+sound culture”
“mock job application”
“job offer response timeline”
“how+to+make+tenure+smart+way”
“NCA job list”
“stivale+job+search”
“list of synth rock bands”
and here I give up but the list goes one for days and day. I also note some referring links to the professionalization section of sterneworks from other academic institutions. That’s cool.
Happily, now that superbon.net is its own entity, I do not have any statistics for what brings people here.