racoma.com.phJ. Angelo Racoma on technology, economics, writing, problogging, and getting things done

My server stats–at least up tp 6:00 p.m. today–tell me that I’ve had less page views than last month, but more visitors.

I got 87,136 page views from 41,220 visits by 7,637 unique
visitors.  On average, I get 2,904 page views from 1,374 visits
per day.

Updated figures: for all of September, the J Spot got 91,513 page views
from 42,189 visits by 7,845 unique visitors.  So on average,
that’s 3,050 pageviews from 1,406 visits per day.

Top search keywords/keyphrases include Cassandra Ponti (sometimes Cass
Ponti), Filipino Economist, Pinoy Big Brother (usually something to do
with Housemate Sam–I wonder why ), and the usual queries on sex and video scandals.

The J Spot is currently #2 with a Google Query on Cass Ponti.

Comparing with August stats,
I got 109,446 page views from 38,821 visits by 7,1,73 unique visitors,
this means I got more visitors this month, but they viewed less
pages.  I guess this means either my site’s improved in terms of
navigation (since users don’t have to change pages every so often), or
they leave earlier.  Hmm …

Oh, I didn’t break the bandwidth limit this time.  Of course, i.PH had increased the bandwidth and disc space limits across all accounts!

As for the AdSense performance, well, it’s improving .

I’ll have to update the figures when they’re “official” by this midnight.

From Yugatech: PTB October Meet-up & Open Invite

We’ve finalized the October Meet-up schedule for the
Pinoy.Tech.Blog team next week. We’ll have it at Coffee Beanery in
Emerald Avenue, Ortigas (beside Starbucks) around 3PM on Saturday (8th
of October). We’ll be doing our very first podcast during that session.
Topics to be discussed are not yet out but this should be pretty
exciting for all of us.

What, no alcohol again!?! That’s unless Coffee Beanery has
alcoholic beverages to serve. Tech stuff is better discussed when
you’re drunk (see Diggnation).

Please feel free to drop by! It will surely be cool to get to meet the faces behind the blog URLs, won’t it?

I just received my Wordpress.com Golden Ticket in my email!

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away you entered your email address on http://wordpress.com/ to get a blog.

We’re now inviting small groups to use WordPress.com and your email address was selected today!

Visit this address to get started: xxx

While you’re on a string of good luck it might be a good day to buy a lottery ticket.

I’d been waiting for quite some time for this, and I never thought my
email address would be selected to receive a WordPress.com
invite.  At any rate, I had tried my hand with WP with the J Spotter, and I can say it works well with advanced users such as myself–after all, the configurations have to be set manually.

I have yet to review the WP.com hosted blog service more thoroughly. 
At this point, I’m aware that it’s not as fully-functional as an
individual WordPress installation.  For instance, you don’t have
code-access to the templates (PHP and CSS files).  And you’re limited
to only a few theme choices, but you can edit the look and feel (color,
font scheme) thru a point-and-click interface.  And of course, you
can’t install your own plugins!

One good thing not found in an individual WP installation: the GUI post-editor, which includes a WYSIWYG text editor.  Yes, everything’s GUI now.  Now I gotta have that on my WP site.

I also noticed I could invite other users to WP.com.  But I get only one invite?

My Gmail stats:

• 3,878 unread conversations in inbox (sometimes the msg preview says it all)
• 5,830 total conversations in inbox
• 202 starred conversations
• 1,563 sent messages
• 3 draft messages
• 8,190 total conversations (excl spam)
• 525 spam
• 18 message labels
• 555 contacts
• 449 MB of disc space used: 17% of the present 2,636 MB limit–and both growing!
• GMailing since June 28, 2004

How about your Gmail stats?

Microsoft is reorganizing.  According to official announcements, it’s to “[give MS executives ]broader powers in an effort to better compete against its rivals, including Google and Yahoo.”

The software and services giant is merging its seven business units into three divisions, as follows:

• Microsoft Platform Products and Services – will handle the flagship Windows family of operating systems and MSN online;
• Microsoft Business Divison – will handle Office and products for small and medium enterprises; and,
• Microsoft Entertainment and Devices Division – will handle the Xbox game console and other consumer/mobile-related products.

Wow.  Microsoft is feeling the heat, especially with big
competitors getting bigger and bigger (with mergers and acquisitions
and all that) and eating a bigger portion of the tech pie.  After
all, the I.T. world is moving more towards applications rather than
software.

(via TWiT)