Blogging…
As the very observiant among you will have noticed (not “yepyep” then… okay, I’ll give it a rest now… 
), I’ve added a few more blogs to the links. The chemical blogging scene has taken-off hugely in the last few months, and I’m really glad to see that the topics covered are incredibly diverse. I’m picking any one blog out in particular for praise, go get your own opinion. So where did I find them? All these lovely people have linked to my page, one way or another. And thus it turns up in the server stats. So, just like Dylan did (don’t we miss his regular rambling – Chemistry World need to publish him more often) a few months back, here’s a few stats, courtesy of AWstats:
Monthly Access:
So we’re still growing in use! Cheers, folks! Thankfully, not in danger of hitting the bandwidth limit yet…
Daily Stats:
Ah ha! Lazy weekends appear to be popular. Either that, or there’s less opportunity for procrastination on the weekend.
Country List:
So where are you lot from? No real surprises here…
Now for the really geeky stats:
Good to see that a decent number of you are using FireFox, and it’s interesting to see that the Apple – Academic connection is still going on! Who the hell’s still using Netscape?
More stats another day I think, but we’ll get back to chemistry tomorrow, with Amphidinolide E…
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And who might be the top referrers to your site? Just include a list large enough so that CF is on it.
We can compare stats using Alexa. You may have to copy/paste the following url into the browser. http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?site0=www.chemicalforums.com&site1=http://totallysynthetic.com/&site2=&site3=&site4=&y=r&z=1&h=300&w=500&range=6m&size=Medium&url=www.chemicalforums.com
Mitch
How the hell did FreeBSD beat out linux? Am I really driving that much traffic? Wow, I should work harder.
Are they all the countries listed, or are some not on the list? It would be nice too see where some of your more isolated fans read from! The Falklands? Ascension island perhaps?
[...] TotallySynthetic has just posted Blogging… where he exults over the growing chemical blogosphere. I share this enthusiasm. He also implies the reinforcement effect – if you have N blogs that are linked there are N*N links and this makes the blogosphere more valuable than all the single blogs. For example his readership is likely to be predominately practising synthetic chemists – this blog has (inter alia) a readership interested in scholarly communication. So they get to see his blog and vice versa. [...]
Mitch,
Chemical Forums is ranked 48th on the list of referring sites; I’m not displaying the full list, as some are internal to certain pharmaceutical companies / government departments et c. But thanks for the links! I tried the Alexa link, but the data conflicts with my server stats – how does it get it’s data?
Hehe, this time I noticed the change because this site has become my web portal. This is where I start my daily journey through the blogosphere. Although… I don’t know if I should praise you or curse you because that journey is now a lot longer. When am I now going to get any work done?
Ok, now back to hitting F5. I need to get my country higher on the list :p
do you see IP of your BOSS
in your statistics?
Jon reads the blog fairly regularly – he’s already commented on this post over tea this afternoon.
A total of 64 blogs are aggregated on http://wiki.cubic.uni-koeln.de/pg/ which uses the Postgenomic.com software. I recently blogged some statistics at http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/2006/11/chemical-blogspace-updates.html
BTW, keep up the great blog!
I use Netscape. I’m at work and the choices of browsers are Netscape and Internet Exploder, so you tell me…
At home I use IE, but the computer is so slow and unresponsive that there’s no point (it’s old and slow – not XP or IE’s fault).
[...] Totally Synthetic posted his blog stats today (Blogging… ) so I thought I’d post the ones that Jim Downing has set up for us. Apart from anything else I like the graphics. [...]
I have started my own blog at
http://totallymedicinal.wordpress.com and I would encourage you to all come and have a peek, it might be of interest.
It is meant to be a medicinal chemistry equivalent to totallysynthetic, although obviously a lot of the chemistry will be rather less exotic than that discussed on this forum, and the vast majority will be industry based. I would welcome feedback on my site (which I have only just started putting together). It as yet lacks the finesse of this site (nice graphics, polls etc), but I hope you find it useful.
oh, and sorry about stealing half your name!
I wonder if we’ll see Total Methodology… Totally Methodic?… maybe not.
Tot. Syn,
Alexa rank is determined from the frequency individuals, who have installed their plugin for firefox or their toolbar for ie, visit a website. Not everyone has it installed, thus its results can’t be trusted too much.
Google’s PageRank and Alexa’s rank is what webmasters use together in order to judge an other webmaster’s site.
Mitch
I’ve been thinking for a while the sister (brother?) blog to totally synthetic dealing with methodology should be “The Method Man”…
Keep up the good work. I typically am one of the many who read but don’t post but Dan inspired me…
Lurker: Can I suggest “The Methodical Organist” or “A Methodist Orgy”?
Paul, thank you for a link!
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I greatly appreciate this.
Now I have to be more careful in order not to get identified
With methodology, pruning the cream of the crop still leaves you with four or five decent papers for every decent tot syn. Also, a lot of really good methodology turns up in less likely journals – some of the best is in Tet Lett. This makes it so much harder to follow, so I’m not touching it with a barge-pole. I’ll stick to reading what I find, and from what we have presented to us in group meetings.
Also, it is my firm belief that any really useful methodology will turn up in a tot syn anyway!
Hello TotallyMedicinal,
I’ve just had a look at your site, very good it is too! How do I go about registering for it?
Biotech
Hi Biotech. What do you want to register for? I don’t understand (maybe it’s just me being daft?)
Biotech: Go to wordpress.com
Tot Med; link added, along with one for Curly Arrow:
http://curlyarrow.blogspot.com/
Ta much for the link. It seems like a fair proportion of the traffic comes from this site. I hope to keep you all interested with a steady diet of heterocyclic ring forming reactions, amide couplings, reductive aminations and nucleophilic aromatic substitutions, which is pretty much the bread and butter for an industrial medicinal chemist. Happy days.
Hi,
Glad to see Macs are doing well in the ranking, I’ve included a reference on my site hope this is OK.
Thanks
Chris
http://www.macinchem.org
[...] Showing stats seems to be the new recent trend: http://totallysynthetic.com/blog/?p=349, [...]
wonderful think))
Good night, bloggers =)
such a nice story..
heh.. FreeBSD is 3th ?!.. pleasant surprise.. )))
thank you, the interesting statistics..
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Thanks!!! Nice post!