On Jun 30, 9:12=A0am, JSH <jst...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Jun 30, 12:08=A0am, gjedwards <gjedwa...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On Jun 30, 5:20 am, JSH <jst...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > Now that I'm winding down from new math research I'm focusing more
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> > > side details like measuring the impact of posts on the newsgroups on
> > > things like statistics of hit counts on my math blog, and I thought
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> > > worth sharing some of the information.
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> > > For instance, in the past 6 months according to Google Analytics my
> > > math blog has hits from 80 countries, though the bulk of the hits
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> > > from Great Britain, with the city giving the most hits being London.
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> > > According to Google Analytics, the hits coming from what I'll call
> > > hostile sources, being the crank.net website and newsgroups through
> > > groups.google.com are 10.12% of the total, where crank.net has 6.02%
> > > and groups.google.com has 4.10% which is invaluable information to
me
> > > because it has shown me that hostile posts here have nominal impact
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> > > terms of actually driving people from links on negative sources to
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> > > math blog.
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> > > Which is why I'm posting as I think it's a hoot.
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> > > Hostile posters who I've seen at times making it a point to link to
> > > negative sites have had a nominal impact based on the evidence I
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> > > available, and thankfully, crank.net is a non-force in terms of hit
> > > counts.
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> > > The hate page is not getting the attention I'm sure it's creator
> > > intended, so now it's more of a humorous thing to me to note that
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> > > consider what it means about the Internet and how interest is drawn
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> > > not drawn by particular tactics.
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> > > On a side note, I continue to use search results from the major
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> > > engines to gain some sense of my overall worldwide influence, and as
> > > it has every year, it is growing.
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> > > I now consider the academic journal process to be irrelevant to my
> > > needs and it is no longer necessary for me to even consider
> > > publication in any math journal at any level.
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> > > I can simply go direct, publi****ng as I choose, what I choose, when
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> > > choose.
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> > > James Harris
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> > I guess Google Analytics is the NPD-sufferer's dream (and his doctor's
> > nightmare) - a robot attention monitor.
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> So you're calling people you don't know in 80 countries robots? =A0
Idiot.
Not "robots being monitored" but "a robot doing the monitoring".
But you never were very bright, were you?
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> especially insulting people from London, England who make up the bulk
> of the hits according to Google Analytics?
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> Got something against people from London?
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> Humor aside, it is amazing to me how facts have no impact on certain
> newsgroup posters, and I'll admit that a lot of my gratification with
> statistics is in learning that the impact of those certain types of
> people is negligible.
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> I guess most people do care about facts.
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