A Serendipity35 Year in Review 2006

2006 was the first year for this blog. We started out just as an experiment with using open source blogging software, but quickly I got into writing about educational technology in all its flavors, and Tim got into playing with the software and fine tuning the performance.

Since February, we have posted 198 entries. And even though we have gotten 123 comments, they are really spread out - only five entries got more than 5 comments:

You've Been Facebooked!

8 comment(s)

Trying out Moodle and Sakai

7 comment(s)

Social Computing (NJEDge.Net Best Practices Showcase)

7 comment(s)

Why serendipity?

6 comment(s)

Heart of Darkness

6 comment(s)

123 comments sounds OK, right? But when you consider that the blog has had 1,615,349 visitors, it sounds pretty weak!

Checking our logs turns up:

Top visited articles (conferences bring in the visitors, it seems)

This conference is only online (HigherEd BlogCon 2006)

36,352 visits

Online Socializing: How Are Schools Reacting?

35,370 visits

William Gibson - his blog

28,317 visits

Personal Broadcasting: Podcasting and beyond

28,235 visits

Social Computing (NJEDge.Net Best Practices Showcase)

26,547 visits

Mashing It up in Philly (NEWUG WebCT Regional Conf)

26,134 visits

Hot Issues in Ed Tech at the Campus Technology Conference on Education Technology

26060 visits

What is this thing called Web 2.0?

24,847 visits

Thoughts at the Podcasts, Wikis and Blogs Seminar at NJIT

24,653 visits

Do Professors Enjoy Teaching Online?

24,529 visits

Longest Entry: Social Computing (NJEDge.Net Best Practices Showcase)

The Search Terms that Found Us in December
(we seem to be making big waves)

Top 20 of 819 Total Search Strings # Hits Search String 1 1192 37.39% big waves 2 201 6.30% big wave 3 65 2.04% Big Waves 4 43 1.35% serendipity 5 41 1.29% semantic 6 35 1.10% semantic web 7 25 0.78% BIG WAVES 8 23 0.72% kindergarten classroo- 9 22 0.69% Big waves 10 19 0.60% white star line 11 17 0.53% [KEYWORD] 12 16 0.50% a big wave 13 15 0.47% college blogs 14 13 0.41% how many people search itunes through google 15 12 0.38% how to download video from youtube blogs 16 11 0.35% i facebooke- 17 10 0.31% big wave pictures 18 10 0.31% njit wiki 19 9 0.28% big waves pictures 20 9 0.28% download love in the time of cholera The Rest of the Search Terms And We have readers in over 80 countries! Top 30 of 87 Total Countries # Hits Files KBytes Country 1 54777 45.96% 47881 48.23% 418582 37.22% US Commercial 2 26390 22.14% 22490 22.65% 266675 23.71% Network 3 16242 13.63% 12209 12.30% 205244 18.25% Unresolved/Unknown 4 10838 9.09% 7164 7.22% 99068 8.81% US Educational 5 1707 1.43% 1378 1.39% 18306 1.63% Australia 6 616 0.52% 608 0.61% 5302 0.47% Brazil 7 614 0.52% 85 0.09% 989 0.09% Sweden 8 590 0.50% 547 0.55% 6969 0.62% United Kingdom 9 567 0.48% 547 0.55% 9110 0.81% Non-Profit Organization 10 488 0.41% 433 0.44% 6121 0.54% Canada 11 447 0.38% 420 0.42% 7325 0.65% Germany 12 445 0.37% 442 0.45% 12413 1.10% United Arab Emirates 13 430 0.36% 394 0.40% 5947 0.53% United States 14 418 0.35% 411 0.41% 4006 0.36% India 15 370 0.31% 359 0.36% 3605 0.32% Japan 16 343 0.29% 330 0.33% 5575 0.50% Netherlands 17 301 0.25% 291 0.29% 4831 0.43% France 18 239 0.20% 150 0.15% 2521 0.22% Russian Federation 19 238 0.20% 231 0.23% 3334 0.30% Portugal 20 188 0.16% 184 0.19% 1560 0.14% Argentina 21 177 0.15% 176 0.18% 1827 0.16% Poland 22 171 0.14% 161 0.16% 1400 0.12% Israel 23 170 0.14% 162 0.16% 1592 0.14% Italy 24 167 0.14% 158 0.16% 2119 0.19% New Zealand (Aotearoa) 25 154 0.13% 151 0.15% 1413 0.13% Mexico 26 150 0.13% 144 0.15% 2260 0.20% Switzerland 27 141 0.12% 118 0.12% 4112 0.37% Old style Arpanet (arpa) 28 123 0.10% 110 0.11% 2050 0.18% Czech Republic 29 120 0.10% 107 0.11% 994 0.09% Singapore 30 119 0.10% 106 0.11% 1416 0.13% Belgium

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