Blog #2,193: Six Years
My blog from May 1, 2006:
“Alrightythen! I finally got a MySpace*. People will now find it easier to stalk me. Anyways, since I’m obsessive-compulsive, I had to start this on the 1st of a Month–I wanted to start this a week or so ago, but NO–that would be in the middle of April. I’m tired now and I want to go to bed, but NO–that would mean I would have to wait another month to start.
Anyway, it’s all good. I’ll be here posting my thoughts every day. At least, that’s what I want to do.
The odds of it happening?
50:1.
Meh.”
Oh, silly little high-schooler. If only you knew.
Yes, the internet has been putting up with my daily drivel for six years now. Scary stuff, huh? Haha, I should actually blame Aneel and E’raina for this…they’re the ones that peer-pressured me into getting a MySpace and starting a blog. DO YOU SEE WHAT YOU’VE DONE?!
Anyway, yay! I’ve spent the past two weeks or so going through each and every one of my posts to create a nice large data set. Because I spent so long doing it, I thought it only fitting that I not confine my statistical exploration of my blogs to one night (tonight). Therefore, I will give you six days (one for each year I’ve been blogging) of stats/blogging insanity guaranteed to either interest you or make you wonder why the hell you even read this. Or both. Or neither. Maybe it’ll give you cheese. The possibilities? Endless.
This is what’s going down in the Big Week o’ Blog Stats Celebration:
- Wednesday: Comparisons by blog category
- Thursday: Mean word comparisons by weekday, month, and year
- Friday: The use and frequency of images and surveys
- Saturday: Common words and topics
- Sunday: Overall trends: Gunning Fog Index and word count
- Monday: The best blogs
Excited? I am! Any excuse to do some recreational stats.
Here’s to six more years (at least)!
*YES, I started out on MySpace. Give me a break, it was the thing back in 2006, you know it was.
NEW STEPS NEW STEPS NEW STEPS!
Haha, the blog’s gettin’ revamped all over the place. Today’s upgrade: my own domain!
I can now be found at www.eigenblogger.com (the old eigenblogger.wordpress.com will redirect). Yay!
I also added a “Best Of” tab at the top which contains my ten favorite blogs. Just in case people who are passing through would like a taste of some of the better posts of mine (because 95% of them suck).
Further upgrades will occur throughout the week. I also only have to work Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday because Arizona is apparently obsessed with rodeos enough to shut down the community college.
OOH and I got a new bike! Pics soon.
Click Clack Bric-a-Brac
BAM, new WordPress theme! Like it? I like how the sidebar (the content to the right) is separate from the main blog. I also like how each post gets its own little box.
Anyway, I’m still having the WordPress vs. Typepad argument in my head. If I stay on WordPress, I’m going to buy my own domain and be www.eigenblogger.com, because that looks awesome and I think (nearly) six years of blogging deserves its own domain.
Okay, that’s all. Sorry. Short blog time.
Blogometrics
Hello fine readers! I have a question pertaining to—what else?—my blog!
So since I started my blog back in 2006, it’s been known as “Le Seul Mot Juste” with the subheader “take THAT, Gustave Flaubert!”
However, I’ve grown quite attached to “Eigenblogger,” especially since if I go premium with my WordPress account I’ll be found at http://www.eigenblogger.com, which is more memorable and easier to type out than http://www.leseulmotjuste.com or even http://www.takethatgustave.com. Though that last one would be pretty great.
I’ve also kind of adopted the phrase “live fast, die young, love data” as a motto, so that’d be a good subheader, eh?
ANYWAY.
Here are three new header designs with the new blog title/subheader. This also gives me the opportunity to try out my first poll! WOOHOO! Designs first, poll at the end.
Header A
Header B
Header C
I want cheese.
Eigenblogger 