{"id":771,"date":"2009-07-25T22:33:10","date_gmt":"2009-07-26T02:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/?p=771"},"modified":"2009-07-25T22:33:10","modified_gmt":"2009-07-26T02:33:10","slug":"usage-and-reddit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/07\/25\/usage-and-reddit\/","title":{"rendered":"Usage and Reddit"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the most part, I don’t live or die on the number of readers of this blog.\u00a0 I’m not making money off this, so extra readers don’t\u00a0 have a direct effect.\u00a0 Of course, I am gratified that people want to read this:\u00a0 since one of my goals is to make operations research more famous, it helps if there is a readership!\u00a0 And I greatly enjoy it when people comment on my posts (something that is happening much more often):\u00a0 that can’t happen without a readership.<\/p>\n

Determining the readership of a blog is kinda tricky.\u00a0 Some people wander by through the web, or have the page bookmarked, or search on a term that occurs in a blog post, or otherwise access the blog as a web page.\u00a0 Somewhere around 150 or so people a day see the blog that way.\u00a0 Of course a number of people are searching for “sex market” or some such, and hit a post from my past entries that includes those words.<\/a> In fact, now that I have included that phrase here, they may end up on this<\/em> page.\u00a0 If so, then welcome:\u00a0 this probably isn’t what you were looking for, but there are some fascinating posts, so browse around for a while!<\/p>\n

Another group subscribes to the blog through RSS readers, like google reader<\/a>.\u00a0 They may not hit my website directly at all, but read the postings through their reader.\u00a0 Feedburner tells me I have about 700 subscribers that way.\u00a0 This number is an estimate, but presumably all of these subscribers are actually interested in operations research.\u00a0 This is the way I access blogs:\u00a0 I subscribe to all of the operations research blogs listed in the right hand column of my front page<\/a>, and I subscribe to an additional twenty-five blogs that are not operations research but have caught my interest.\u00a0 I also subscribe to about dozen blogs on operations research that appear to be inactive:\u00a0 if a post comes through on one of those, then I can move it over to the active list.<\/p>\n

Putting things all together, I put my readership at about 1000 people truly interested in operations research, which is a gratifying number.\u00a0 I certainly have not given a technical talk in front of 1000 people (the recent EURO conference<\/a> was perhaps the largest, but it was not 1000 people).<\/p>\n

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Once in a while I get a spike, due to an entry on other sites.\u00a0 I have never had a successful entry on Digg<\/a> or Slashdot<\/a>, which is probably just as well, since my poor server probably couldn’t stand the strain.\u00a0 But my recent posting on “P=NP (or not)”<\/a> did get some play<\/a> on Reddit<\/a> (thanks cavedave for the shoutout), which resulted in a spike in usage (up by a factor of five or so).\u00a0\u00a0 It was great to see the spike, but it will be even better if this results in more permanent subscribers and more interest in operations research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the most part, I don’t live or die on the number of readers of this blog.\u00a0 I’m not making money off this, so extra readers don’t\u00a0 have a direct effect.\u00a0 Of course, I am gratified that people want to read this:\u00a0 since one of my goals is to make operations research more famous, it … Continue reading “Usage and Reddit”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administration-announcements","category-blogs-and-web"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}