Congratulations!!! You are Feldie Vision’s 1000th Reader!

One of you reading this blog post is my 1,000th reader!!  Feldie Vision has reached a major milestone.  I started my blog on March 18th, the first day since 1863 that the Seattle P-I did not go to press.  Since,  I have confused, dumbed down, and generally disturbed 1,000 readers!!

I know 1,000 may not bring me riches  . . . or even enough to buy a Rainier Tallboy at the Historic Triangle before an M’s game.  Other things I have started have reached more people.  Feldie’z Nutz served 1,000 customers during an average homestand.  World Wide Broadcasting delivered audio entertainment to over 2,000 people on a daily basis.

One thousand is relatively insignificant when I think that the past two years I helped install a software platform that serves over 500,000 microfinance clients living in poverty in developing nations.  Or that I was responsible for providing timely, overpriced, and mainly useless information to nearly 5 million daily as the product manager for 411 at T-Mobile.  Or that the Seattle P-I couldn’t stay in business because it only had a daily circulation of 125,000 paying readers.

Still, I am proud that Feldie Vision has reached the 1,000 reader threshold.

Here are some stats:

• 17 posts (counting this one). That means each post brings nearly 63 readers.
• 47 comments.  About 3 comments per post.
• 250 monthly readers.
• 9 daily readers.
• 110 people read my most popular post “I Don’t Pay for Cable“.  Apparently, people really don’t want to have to pay for their cable.
• 87 people are aware I will not find a job this year because they read my 2nd most popular post “I Will Not Be Hired This Year“.
• 64 people wanted to find out who was responsible for posting the garbage on this blog and clicked on the “About Feldie” link.
• 31 wanted to get a review of Star Trek by visiting “Star Trek Sneak Peek“.  A disappointing number considering the post came out 3 days prior to movie release.  Of course, 31 people were most likely disappointed when they found out the post really wasn’t a movie review.
• 25 people found my blog when using the search term “Bruce Harrell“.  This is followed by 11 using “trekkie” as the two most often used search terms to find Feldie Vision.
• 13 read “Life after the P-I“, my first and lowest trafficked post.
• 2 readers came to Feldie Vision using the search term “drunken teenagers“.  I claim no responsibility for that one.
• 1 disappointed MD happened on to Feldie Vision while using “orthopedic surgeon business card” as a search term.

On the trend side, it appears things are picking up for Feldie Vision:

• In July Feldie Vision is averaging 12 readers daily on non-post days.  In June the daily non-post day average was 5.
• My most recent two posts account for 20% of the visits to Feldie Vision.
• These two posts also generated 15 comments, which accounts for nearly 1/3rd of all posted responses.
• The past month has accounted for 29% of Feldie Vision visits.
• And last week was the most popular ever for Feldie Vision, accounting for 12% of all time visits.

My biggest disappointment thus far is that only 29 people have visited “The Mouth” post.  I am thinking about adding navigation to my top 10 posts and “The Mouth” should always appear.  I urge  those that are reading this to click on “The Mouth” and artificially inflate the numbers to guarantee its perpetual place in the Feldie Vision Top 10.

Overall, I have enjoyed writing Feldie Vision.  My goal is to do more posts; the target is 4 – 6 monthly.

Thank you all for clicking in and reading my confused, distorted, and often times blurred view of the world around me.  And I hope you will continue to return to get a look of the world through the lens of Feldie Vision.