Nobody cares about my other posts, however.

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Jul 152008
 

After I take the bar, maybe I’ll have time for posts based on something other than my site visitor logs (or cut-and-pasting from someone else’s blog). Until then…

I’ve been thinking about my most popular posts, in terms of hits (most coming from web search sites). The common thread is that Googlers really want to know how to do stuff: how to reset their ipods, how to block the stupid video on ESPN’s homepage, and how John Basedow died in the tsunami (or not).

The first two links (A and B) consistently get more hits than the rest of my blog, combined. The ESPN one, I get–it was linked by Deadspin, and actually fixes a problem that lots of people have. But the iPod one is even more popular, and the actual content of the post is basically just a series of links to other, useful sites. I don’t understand it.

And the John Basedow post is not actually that popular, but it is a personal favorite, especially since the lazyweb came up big and I now have the mp3 of the John Basedow theme song, of which I will never tire.

Now You Know.

 Posted by JHW at 1:45 pm
  • http://laustintexas.blogspot.com Lauren

    A) nice redesign, I just saw it for the first time! But what is that picture of in your masthead??
    B) I have definitely googled the ipod reset before…but it usually always happens when I'm not in front of a computer and forget how to do it.
    C) I take personal pleasure in the Basedow post because I was a part of making it happen! Also, I would still like to have it as my cell phone ring…
    D) funny how on your ipod post, you also mention that you are moving in august. and here you are two years later moving in august again. i hate moving!

  • http://www.en-dash.com/blog Jake

    A) It is a cropped image of molten lava, which I picked because it matches the color scheme. I don't love it, but it's an improvement over the old design.
    D) I will probably move again some other August, but hopefully not for a few more years. And I will never, NEVER, do it myself, no matter how much it costs.

  • http://www.en-dash.com/blog Jake

    A) It is a cropped image of molten lava, which I picked because it matches the color scheme. I don't love it, but it's an improvement over the old design.
    D) I will probably move again some other August, but hopefully not for a few more years. And I will never, NEVER, do it myself, no matter how much it costs.

   
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