ThoughtfulChaos

No time for a detailed post. I received a Google Analytics invite code a few days back and today I finally found the time to activate, configure and install it. So right now if you reading this on the blog itself then your visits are being logged by 3 packages: StatCounter, Performancing Metrics and Google Analytics. Only problem now is how do I get more traffic? Sheesh...

Bye for now.

There is one thing that all bloggers like to do, apart from blogging that is. Can you guess what that thing is?

All bloggers love to keep a tab on the metrics for their blog. How many visitors read my latest post? How many people have subscribed to my blog feeds? How many readers are regular readers? From which sites were my readers referred to me? And many more similar fundas. Why? I guess for me the main reason is ego... I just want to know how 'interesting' my blog/posts are perceived to be. If you are a professional blogger or a blogger who plays to the gallery you could also use this info to tailor your posts to better suit the audience you are trying to target.

I just installed the latest kid on the metrics blog, Performancing metrics, on this blog. It is specifically targeted towards blogs... stats for my blog are yet to trickle in so I do not know what exactly that means but it will be interesting to see what stats are thrown up tomorrow. Most web stats packages are geared for use in general sites not necessarily blogs. They consequently do not have a number of metrics that make a lot of sense for blogs. Performancing metrics aims to fill in this gap.

Continue reading "Performancing Metrics are a go!"...

A very happy birthday to my favourite CMS in the world. Yesterday, 5 years ago Drupal 1.0.0 was released. Thanks to the Drupal community who made this great CMS possible. Here is hoping for many more years of excellent releases, new features and more power.

findory.com has an interesting tool that shows you a blog's neighbourhood. Neighbourhood means blogs that are similar to the blog in question. The 'proximity' of a blog in he neighbourhood is indicated using shade and size. Larger and darker shades indicates a higher degree of similarity.

Finding the neighbourhood tool is not that intuitive. Go to Findory Blogs and type in the title of the target blog in the search text box and hit 'go'. From the listing of posts click on the blog's name (NOT the title of a post). The blog's name appears in slightly smaller font just below the post title in the listing. In the page that appears scroll down to the very bottom and look for a 'Findory Neighbors' link on the right sidebar. Clicking on that link displays the neighbourhood for that blog.

It will be interesting to see how the neighbourhood of this blog changes over a period of time. Here is what the neighbourhood for this blog looks like on 16th January 2006.

Continue reading "Findory neighbourhood as on 16th January 2006"...

There. I did it. A new theme. Again. Seems as if I am spending more time tweaking my blog than actually blogging. If you are seeing something very weird then flush your cache and reload the page. In IE and Firefox you can do this by pressing the Shift button and then clicking on the refresh button in the browser's toolbar. Oh.. of course... those you of reading this in a feed reader or an email please pop out of there and check out the blog's brand new avatar.

This new theme is still christened madz. madz is simply too cool a name to lose. So the old theme becomes madz_old and this new theme is ... well madz. This theme is still a work in progress. There are few more things I want to play with but I don't have the time right now so I uploaded whatever I had completed.

Continue reading "New theme. Again."...