Had to share!

Ahem..I know, I know..

I've been absent from this blog for several months. These things happen, right?

It's not from a lack of reading. Good heavens, no!

It's not from a lack of interest in what I'm reading either.

Doesn't really matter why. Now, I'm back.

Day Two: Stats..and more stats

So, this task was all about just knowing the stats on your audience.

It seems weird to me that I never set up Google Analytics or Site Meter on this blog. My personal blogs both have them on there. I love getting my emails on Monday mornings, telling me all the cool stuff--hits, search terms, that I've got a reader who religiously checks my site in Nigeria. And one in Croatia.

Seriously cool stuff.

And when I see the numbers drop off a little, it spurs me into action. I get more productive. And since I've started doing a little more coding work (as in HTML) in my personal blogs, I pay attention better to what my audience can and can't see. So, I guess I'm more aware, in that sense.

So, as I get some stats for this site, I'll probably post an upate about what I've learned.

30 Days....Day One

I'm officially 3 days behind (and counting) on the "30 Days to Being a Better Blogger" challenge that Steve Dembo (lovable teach42) suggested/dreamed up last week. I'm all about it. I know I'm not a great blogger, and I know I'm not a consistent one, which seems to defeat the purpose to me sometimes.

So, here I am. I'm going to bump out all these posts and get caught up. Be watching a space somewhere on this page for news of the wiki that some others and I volunteered to scratch together for Steve.

The "about" page.

I've never had one. Blogger doesn't really lend itself to one (although Dembo pointed out a work-around for that. I just can't look at it here at school, so I can't tell you if it works or not. I'll get to that this evening.)

So, I guess my first job is to set about getting one set up. I imagine this will (as everything seems to) me deciding to completely revamp the look of my blog. No biggie.

I'll update in a little while, and let you know how things go.

UPDATE: Okay, a day later..I've managed to at least update my Blogger profile. Does that count? I say YES!

Cool stuff I learned about today

Check this out. I already knew about the MIT open courseware project.

Here's the Yale one. I'm going to do the Old Testament class. And maybe the philosophy class. Anyone care to join me?

Here's some other interesting open courseware projects:

University of Southern Queensland (Australia)

Utah State University

University of Notre Dame

Learn something people!