Peter Smith’s Posterous

well willya lookit that, first ever re-use of one of my photos via
creative commons licensing.

-----Original Message-----
From: Emma Williams [mailto:editor@schmap.com] Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 4:30 PM
To: smith.pcw@gmail.com
Subject: [Flickr] Schmap: Ottawa Photo Inclusion
 
You've been sent a Flickr Mail from Emma J. Williams:
 
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:: Schmap: Ottawa Photo Inclusion
 
 
Hi Peter,
 
I am delighted to let you know that one of your photos with
a Creative Commons license has been selected for inclusion
in the newly released seventh edition of our Schmap Ottawa
Guide:
 
Alexandra Bridge

 
If you use an iPhone or iPod touch, then this same link
will take you directly to your photo in the iPhone version
of our guide. On a desktop computer, you can still see
exactly how your photo is displayed and credited in the
iPhone version of our guide at:
 
Alexandra Bridge
http://www.schmap.com/?m=iphone#uid=ottawa&sid=tours_tour1&p=212863&i=21
2863_32
 
Finally, if you have a blog, you might also like to check
out the customizable widgetized version of our Schmap Ottawa
Guide, complete with your published photo:
 
http://www.schmap.com/guidewidgets/p=25635302N08/c=SK28061576
 
Please enjoy the guide!
 
Best regards,
 
Emma Williams,
Managing Editor, Schmap Guides
www.schmap.me/emma.williams

"Twitter's meteoric rise to ubiquity is proof positive that the world, in all its complexity, is eager to embrace simplicity."

http://www.apple.com/business/profiles/twitter/

Insert bad joke about "going viral" here

Interesting, I was fiddling about with some free analytics tools - Compete, Google Trends and Quantcast. Impressed to see how they all agreed more or less on the fact that my org's website is getting fewer and fewer visitors. The similarity of the Quantast and Compete trend lines is particularly striking.

In terms of the declining traffic - well, what did I expect, given that the site has no feeds, doesn't allow user generated content, and that we've got no offisite presences in social networks?

About the services though; dunno much about how these analytics tools work; are they all pulling from the same pool of data?

     

Click here to download:

Free_analytics_tools_all_agree.zip (77 KB)

8tracks is a cool little site. Who knows how long it'll last. So enjoy while you can.

Here's my first mix.

Funny how the trend differs when you compare with the trends for Twitter, in my previous post. Yanks own a clear blogosphere advantage, according to BlogPulse. I realize that this is apples and oranges, given the different time frames and measurement tools. But am struck how in the blogosphere, Yanks are always more discussed than the BoSox, while on Twitter, there appears to be a consistent level of Red Sox chatter in between games, often more than what gets tweeted about the Yanks. Despite the fact that when the games are on, frequency of tweets about the Yanks spikes significantly.

My Twitter stream is full of Red Sox fans and chatter - but I hardly see anything about the Yankees. But it looks like my follower set is skewed, according to the data I get from Twist: