01-2008
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Below is a little summay of what’s going on in the first month of ZeroRatio:
After the birth of “ZeroRatio” (has anyone figured out why I used this name yet?) on January 5th, 2008, I’ve written an average of a little more than 1 post a day, although the Tag and Blog Traffic experiment has thrown the number of posts off slightly: I created 12 ‘trap’ posts to examine whether popular tags attract more visitors. Let’s list the tags in decreasing visit count as of today: Baking Soda, Ecology, Life, Hip-Hop, Politics, Christianity. Everything else got nothing. So it turned out that obscure tags that linger around the earlier pages of the tag portal can attract more traffic.
I also did another experiment, trying to examine the effects of commenting on others’ blogs on the traffic to my own blog. This experiment is on-going, and hopefully it will provide some insight next month. Turned out that I didn’t leave a link to this blog when I left comments in other people’s blogs, and how can you find out whether commenting generates traffic if you don’t leave a link!? Hence, experiment deferred.
On the same knowledge-seeking line, I attempted to figure out the efficiency of busses, and found that it requires around 6 passengers to beat small cars. I also read up on moral issues when big pharma go hang out in Africa, for my class. I will expand on the latter.
The most popular post of January turned out to be about my encounter with Stephen Lewis and I think I know why: a friend of mine is one of the organizers of the conference, and he spotted my blog and shared it with his colleagues. Now let’s just hope my sense of powerlessness is not infectious.
My other thoughts on career in medicine and God are comparatively recent, and I’ve yet to see how you guys respond to those.
Wrote an unfinished, semi-abandoned story about a radical treatment for our sick planet, a super short “flash fiction” about a random crush in a lecture hall, and another about a weird man (saying more will be spoiling it).
It turned out that my fiction is much less popular than my other posts. Hmm, what does that mean?
Misc
A few other popular posts do not fall into any category: a discussion on I am Legend, glorious tales of Tina, and a complaint about WordPress’ tag/category confusion.
小說
雨天騎龍記：寫了第一章以後，覺得沒有寫出什麼重點，角色描述也不夠鮮明，要繼續寫第二章之前大概要好好修改一下第一章。
反觀極短篇：最慘的是誰，精簡短小，比長篇連載好寫，好讀，好控制，點閱率果然遠遠超出其他中文文章，也是唯一擠身於前十名的一篇。
其他
其他用中文寫的文章少之又少，只有一篇序，和一篇寫不出東西的嘮叨。
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i never left any msg to the traffic experiment…perhaps it was cuz i’m not that interested in finding out the result…
i mean, i had the intention to write and share with close friends, not to advertise myself to random strangers, so the approach is different than your blog i guess. But it is a rather interesting experiment, so I have been reading those as well. Other ones sounded like essay..so I wasn’t ready to pick up something so substantial.
I was busy on the medicine/god day, so I didn’t reply right away…then the blog post drifted away with your immense blogging speed. I’ll go back to it some day.
There are some english post I just missed intentionally cuz I thought I wouldn’t be interested, but now that i look back, I loved mechanical messiah, and really want to read the next entry.
I’ve read most of your chinese blogs though, mainly because I like reading chinese more, but it’s a good idea to focus on the language that matters in Canada, attracts more readers for your experimental purpose.
請問一下，如何在「編輯」中，回應他人的文章。
我似乎都只能貼上自己的文，無法有「回應的區隔」。
（本人英文很差）
我是在有個叫做「編輯迴響」的地方，想做回應的。
但上頭沒有press this。
點開文章？
……（很長的刪節號，但標準是六點）