The Agrinautica

emo_snal

June 2007	entries (YTD)	friends-of	comments per entry
emo_snal	40	108	2.55
emosnail	202	186 (+10)	6.61

June 2008	entries (YTD)	friends-of	cmmnts/entry (YTD)
emo_snal	57	196 (+88)	6.05
emosnail	206	188 (+2)	4.62

June 2009	entries (YTD)	friends-of	cmmnts/entry (YTD)
emo_snal	219	483 (+287)	19.25
emosnail	166	210 (+12)	4.97

   If this pattern continues, clearly emo_snal shall takeover the blogosphere this upcoming year.

   emosnail had it's highest ratio of comments per entry in the June 2004 - June 2005 year, with 9.55, and has been on the decline ever since.
   My theory is that emosnail was oriented toward people I knew in real life, and in the years since we've graduated college they've all drifted away from lj, started procrastinating with the newer forms of media such as twitbook, and/or hate me. emo_snal however came to be boldly oriented entirely at the anonymous depths of the blogosphere, and this seems to be a much more viable plan.


Related - (previous fun with statistics)
June 2004 - Blogology IV - A look at the relevance of different blogging related statistics
June 2005 - Statistics Revisited - A second look at the same topic, but now with the first YTD data
June 2005 - Comments / Entry - A closer look at comments per entry
June 2006 - Blogological Statistics III - The tradition continues! More statistics, more average data posted for you to compare yourself to. Also some laughing at certain pretentious bloggers I know who had large losses of friend-ofs in the preceding year. lolz.
July 2007 - Blogological Statistics IV - Indroducing the control group! Irked that my previous sample group was based on 25 ljs I had specifically chosen to look at, I used the random lj finder to rustle up 20 truly random ljs for a more representative look at the state of the blogosphere.
June 2008 - Yearly Stats Snapshot - Just a brief one without much analysis. At this point it's a tradition. (:


Totally Unrelated Picture of the Day

A typical doorway in Zaragoza
(view mammoth version to admire the detail!)

   Today I distributed voter registration cards and campaign flyers around my complex for Lamar Heystek, city council candidate. A B-52 flew over while I was doing this, it was cool.


   I'm rather disappointed in the comprehension level of the people in my english class. Today we (1) discussed at length why the Roman generals Scipio Africanus and Scipio the Younger were in the story we were reading (Parliament of Fowls), and then we moved on without anyone drawing any parallels, to (2) a discussion of why Chaucer mentions in the beginning of the story a story by Cicero which this one was based on and happens to be titled "The Dream of Scipio."
   Discussion on point 1 resulted in no real conclusions or hypotheses. Discussion on point 2 featured such things as "I think he was showing off that he's read classic books." Finally I offered "maybe he references the story because this one is largely based on it and it completely accounts for the reason the Scipios are in the story...?" Just a thought...


   I learned at the ASUCD Senate meeting last Thursday that 30% of all chalkings are erased within an hour, and 80% are gone by the end of the day. Of course there would be definitive research into this topic.


   ...aaaand internet connection went down, so I can't do anything more with this tonight.


Picture of the Day

View From Our Cabin
At Tahoe Over New Years
© Soshie? 2004