MADness—the Blog

I was on the road this week and am now getting to a few items I had meant to post about earlier, one being some reflections about the site.

When minaday.com launched five weeks ago, it was an experiment.  I had no experience managing a daily website.  I didn’t know if I would run out of time, or ideas, after three weeks.  I didn’t know if there were three people in the world who’d be interested in reading anything I had to say. 

If you’re reading this I don’t need to tell you:  I’m still here.  I’ve survived some busy times at work, squeezed in a weekend getaway, a few birthday parties—and of course, several trips to the movie theater—yet still managed to keep to the schedule at Minute A Day, with at least one new post daily (either at the front page or the blog).  (On the other hand, I have not kept up my training schedule for a marathon in April.  Ten weeks to go.  Better get moving.)  Anyway, I’m still working on the routine, but so far, so good.

The numbers on the site, if you’re interested, for January:  50 posts total (21 Movie Minute posts on the front page, 29 blog posts at MADness).  Readership info (growing from 0, since the first content went up 1/1):

I suppose the Pages/Visit number above accounts for this: 

Number of visits: 2673 - Average: 613 s

Perhaps I should rename the site to Ten Minutes A Day About Movies.

Almost all the traffic comes from the U.S., but visitors from dozens of countries have stopped by. 

A couple of oddities:  The only search engine I had to submit the site URL to was Bing, yet it’s still the only search engine that seems not to have sent a spider or bot (Google and Yahoo lead the way).  The favicon.ico hits at about 57%; I still don’t see it on IE8, but Firefox, Chrome, and the Mac all are fine.

Feedback:  It’s been fun hearing from readers.  For whatever reason, people tend to send me email (I’ve gotten my share of phone calls too), but few commenters are using the comment box at the end of each post.  I don’t know why that is.  Please don’t be shy.