Awakened Voice

Ever since LibSyn released their updated statistics I’ve been wanting to compare those numbers with the statistics that I’m getting via Blubrry. I took a few minutes today and grab a couple of screen captures comparing the download numbers for an episode of my Amazin Moments podcast. Click the images below to see a higher [...]

The new LibSyn stats system is live. I’ve used LibSyn as a podcast media host for three years now and the weakest link in LibSyn’s offering has been statistics. There have been problems with the stats for months. The LibSyn team has been very open about the problems which they addressed here and here. In [...]

The posting of this file is long overdue. I lead a discussion about podcast statistics at the PodCamp Philly event on September 8, 2007. I’ve put the audio I recorded from the session up on the Internet Archive. If you have any interest in new media statistics then I believe it is worthy of a [...]

“Dead networks mean that it’s super easy to create your own social network for free on Ning and that people are dipping their toes to experiment in this particular pond.” Gina Bianchini, Ning
This may be taking the old adage to have respect for the dead a bit too far.
Ning, a service whose tools I admire [...]

One of the things that absolutely blows my mind is how passionate members of the open source community are about the tools that they make and use. When I started doing screencasts last summer I didn’t really have any road map with respect to the tools that I would cover. I decided to focus on [...]

The new Automattic Stats plugin allows standalone WordPress users to get the same stats users of WordPress.com get for their blog pages.
The stats that you get on WordPress.com are basic but are a good alternative to Google Analytics for those who want to answer very basic questions about how many people are reading their blog [...]

This post will surely elicit some controversy as it dives into the social media hornets nest known as statistics.
I started thinking about stats again after seeing that the FeedBurner stats for TechCrunch indicated that blog eclipsing 100K readers. Interestingly enough that number has dipped to around 87K as I write this post.
First off, I want [...]