Friday, January 25, 2008

My new blog. (Don't be jealous, old blog.)

You all know about my new blog/podcast. I'm kinda pleased with how it's going so far. I've received plenty of wonderful compliments, and it's made me play the piano once a week (which is more than I was playing), and it's kept my mind busier than it was a month ago. That said, there have been some negative results.

1) I have contacts at the NSA that track views of my page, as well as downloads of the individual mp3s. They make handy graphs for me, like these:
As you can see, on the day I invited everyone to partake, I got a healthy response of 62 people looking at my website. 62! That's a lot of people. However, I happen to also know that I sent out over 250 emails, and I'm not happy with a 25% response rate. Furthermore, as the graph plainly shows, most of those people have not come back.


2) In preparing this music for public consumption, I have been listening to it over and over. I have decided that this is unhealthy. I am listening to myself far too much. If I hated it, that would be one thing, but I happen to really like it. I feel kind of gross doing it, listening to my lovely playing again and again. It's like admiring yourself in a mirror.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

What's wrong with admiring oneself in the mirror?

C Neal said...

Just so you know, I don't visit your podcast website. I SUBSCRIBE to it using the RSS feed. Which means that I get a notice every time you post something new to it and have it delivered to me so I can listen to it at work. Neat, huh?

This works out well for me, but it also means that my listening habits probably aren't getting tracked by the NSA. They're getting tracked by Google instead. I'll bet that there are other people doing the same thing.