On Jun 30, 5:20 am, JSH <jst...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Now that I'm winding down from new math research I'm focusing more on
> 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 it
> worth sharing some of the information.
>
> 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 come
> from Great Britain, with the city giving the most hits being London.
>
> 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 in
> terms of actually driving people from links on negative sources to my
> math blog.
>
> Which is why I'm posting as I think it's a hoot.
>
> 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 have
> available, and thankfully, crank.net is a non-force in terms of hit
> counts.
>
> 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 and
> consider what it means about the Internet and how interest is drawn or
> not drawn by particular tactics.
>
> On a side note, I continue to use search results from the major search
> engines to gain some sense of my overall worldwide influence, and as
> it has every year, it is growing.
>
> 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.
>
> I can simply go direct, publi****ng as I choose, what I choose, when I
> choose.
>
> James Harris
I guess Google Analytics is the NPD-sufferer's dream (and his doctor's
nightmare) - a robot attention monitor.
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