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I know, it is shocking - I actually posted the weekly links on time. We are heading out for the weekend (again) and I am not going to be graced with an internet connection, so I wanted to make sure to post these links before I headed out. Enjoy your beautiful internet connection by surfing through these links while I lie in the fetal position, sobbing like a baby that I am without my DSL connection. See you all next week.

Enjoy the links.

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Lately, I have been devoting significant time into a daily blogging schedule. This has definitely taken an increased amount of discipline, but the results have been staggering. The increase in writing has led to a decrease in participation in discussions on the site - something I am going to try to reverse in the future. I much rather post slightly less and participate more if it really comes down to it.

This whole blog thing started that out as a bit of an experiment has become a daily fixture. Some people go hiking, others shop, I blog. One of the things I am going to move towards is increased sharing of information and allow more engagement from readers. I thought it would be interesting for some of you to be able to have access to the site’s traffic statistics. As many of you well know, I am absolutely fascinated with web statistics and the patterns/trends they can show. Traffic statistics seems to be this both coveted and highly secret object - I thought it would be interesting to open it up for everyone to see. If you are a web publisher/blogger and you do in fact have your statistics open, please drop a comment and let me know. If would be interesting to see how many folks have open up their numbers and who they are.

In the next six months, my goal is to increase this site’s traffic by another 30%. This may seem a bit arbitrary, but if this traffic increase continues, I think some interesting possibilities could begin to open up. I think it would be interesting to allow readers to see for themselves if this goal is achieved and to follow its progress.

My goal is to make this site as open and transparent as possible. This is obviously a very small and relatively inconsequential piece of that puzzle, but nonetheless an interesting one. So, please, go ahead and look under the hood. Be my guest.data, experiment, information sharing, mint, numbers, open, statistics, traffic, transparency, web analytics web statistics