So, first off we're going to start off with an open letter to the People of Sweden.
For the most part that I can tell, you're a pretty cool people. You're stereo typically gorgeous, that's good. I'm a big fan of pretty people. You're really good at the Winter Olympics, which happens to be my favorite to watch. You've got some pretty amazing skiers, that's cool. Oh, and you've visited my blog 78 times in the past week. I was just wondering why. I mean I think it's cool. If I became a huge sensation in Sweden I would be totally okay with that. I'm just wondering what it is that you like about me.
Sincerely, me
So...that was my open letter to the People of Sweden, if you're Swedish or you know why my blog is suddenly popular in Sweden that's totally cool, but please respond in the comment section. Seriously, I'm like dying to know.
(I say like because I'm not literally dying, you could say I'm figuratively dying; but it's not quite even that. It's akin to dying, but of a far lesser extent. There is a part of me that wants to know, and is in fact yearning and possibly starving to know but this distinct form of a lack of knowledge will not in fact kill me.)
Now onto Storytime!! .../Complaining time!
So once upon a time I was reading this book, it was a good book - not the best book I've ever read, but good. This book was part one of the Mistborn Trilogy by Brandon Sanderson. I started reading this book because I absolutely positively loved how he ended the Wheel of Time Series which is kind of an amazing epic.
(Let's take a chance to marvel at technology, shall we? This book is a total of 14 books, 684 chapters, 12,000 pages, 4 million words, and in audio form 419.5 hours. One, there is the technology that allowed me to look that up in less than 10 seconds. Two, there is the technology that has widespread this to millions of people. An epoch that makes the Iliad look like a pansy. The Iliad is approximately 700 pages. With the Odyssey being even shorter, about 500 pages. I use these two examples because back before written word was common these were among the longest stories ever told. These were epochs that rightly took hours and several nights to listen to. Told by truly talented bards and minstrels that performed them in prose. Fast forward several thousand years to 2013 when I'm finishing the last book that itself is longer than the Iliad comprised of 14 books...each that is longer than the Iliad. This book, has been recorded so that we may listen to it wherever we have access to a digital media player. It has been printed millions of times and sold all around the world so that millions can share in this wonderful story of humanity. Thank you for taking this chance of a moment to marvel with me)
So...where was I? RIGHT! I just finished the first book, it was good but..kind of abrupt. So I start reading the second book..and I'm look WOAH! This skipped a whole bunch but it still kind of makes sense and it's really exciting so I'm totally okay with it! Until they start referencing something, and then I start putting things together... The thing they're referencing is the title of the (Now known to be) 2nd book. This made me sad, because despite the fact that I am now several hundred pages into the 2nd book nothing has happened that is nearly exciting as the first 100 or so pages of the third book. Though I am reading the second book much faster than I think I would have otherwise because I know what is in store for me and I want to know how Vin and Co. are going to get there!
Thanks for listening to my story. I hope you're okay that today was much less philisophical than many of my posts of late. It's just that there are things that need to be said, but the needing to say does not make them important. It just makes them necessary.
For the most part that I can tell, you're a pretty cool people. You're stereo typically gorgeous, that's good. I'm a big fan of pretty people. You're really good at the Winter Olympics, which happens to be my favorite to watch. You've got some pretty amazing skiers, that's cool. Oh, and you've visited my blog 78 times in the past week. I was just wondering why. I mean I think it's cool. If I became a huge sensation in Sweden I would be totally okay with that. I'm just wondering what it is that you like about me.
Sincerely, me
So...that was my open letter to the People of Sweden, if you're Swedish or you know why my blog is suddenly popular in Sweden that's totally cool, but please respond in the comment section. Seriously, I'm like dying to know.
(I say like because I'm not literally dying, you could say I'm figuratively dying; but it's not quite even that. It's akin to dying, but of a far lesser extent. There is a part of me that wants to know, and is in fact yearning and possibly starving to know but this distinct form of a lack of knowledge will not in fact kill me.)
Now onto Storytime!! .../Complaining time!
So once upon a time I was reading this book, it was a good book - not the best book I've ever read, but good. This book was part one of the Mistborn Trilogy by Brandon Sanderson. I started reading this book because I absolutely positively loved how he ended the Wheel of Time Series which is kind of an amazing epic.
(Let's take a chance to marvel at technology, shall we? This book is a total of 14 books, 684 chapters, 12,000 pages, 4 million words, and in audio form 419.5 hours. One, there is the technology that allowed me to look that up in less than 10 seconds. Two, there is the technology that has widespread this to millions of people. An epoch that makes the Iliad look like a pansy. The Iliad is approximately 700 pages. With the Odyssey being even shorter, about 500 pages. I use these two examples because back before written word was common these were among the longest stories ever told. These were epochs that rightly took hours and several nights to listen to. Told by truly talented bards and minstrels that performed them in prose. Fast forward several thousand years to 2013 when I'm finishing the last book that itself is longer than the Iliad comprised of 14 books...each that is longer than the Iliad. This book, has been recorded so that we may listen to it wherever we have access to a digital media player. It has been printed millions of times and sold all around the world so that millions can share in this wonderful story of humanity. Thank you for taking this chance of a moment to marvel with me)
So...where was I? RIGHT! I just finished the first book, it was good but..kind of abrupt. So I start reading the second book..and I'm look WOAH! This skipped a whole bunch but it still kind of makes sense and it's really exciting so I'm totally okay with it! Until they start referencing something, and then I start putting things together... The thing they're referencing is the title of the (Now known to be) 2nd book. This made me sad, because despite the fact that I am now several hundred pages into the 2nd book nothing has happened that is nearly exciting as the first 100 or so pages of the third book. Though I am reading the second book much faster than I think I would have otherwise because I know what is in store for me and I want to know how Vin and Co. are going to get there!
Thanks for listening to my story. I hope you're okay that today was much less philisophical than many of my posts of late. It's just that there are things that need to be said, but the needing to say does not make them important. It just makes them necessary.
So while I am not immediately from Sweden (I have swedish ancestors!) or know why you are popular there (besides the obvious!) I'm going to respond...
ReplyDeleteBrandon Sanderson is my favorite author of fictional works ever!! But of all his works I think the Mistborn series is the worst put together. Don't get me wrong, its good and has some great philosophical examples! But it isn't written as well as the others. I would have started you on probably Way of Kings first. I hope that you won't be put off by him from reading Mistborn first. (Oh and I do remember the intense "are you guys ever going to make this work!!?" feeling). I could spoiler it for you if you want.........
What are you using to track visits to your site? I've found that Google Analytics is really good for getting an overview of your visits. (Such as, x people from this country, x people from this state, x people using this browser, etc.)
ReplyDeleteBut sitemeter is really good for looking at specific visits. Sitemeter only allows you to look at the previous 100 visits or something like that, but you can drill down into a specific visitor to see what brought them there.
For example, After I saw the new Tron movie a few years ago, I wrote a little blog post about my thoughts after I saw it. I made a little joke about how the character referred to as Thirteen had disappeared from the show House, and magically appeared inside the Tron world. I also stitched together an image that showed her character side by side from both shows. Apparently, "thirteen tron" became a common google search, and my blog became the number one hit for that search. So I was getting flooded with people coming in who just wanted to look at that image. I could look at specific visits and see that they had googled that specific term, and they only stayed on my blog for a few seconds.
It doesn't answer all your questions, especially if they are coming in directly, which means they either type it in or have it bookmarked. But at least it can give you some clues.
Go to sitemeter.com to check it out.
I use feedjit, which is cool, but it sounds like sitemeter might be even cooler. I also use Google Analytics and the stats page on the blogs... I get kind of crazy trying to know who has visited me and when and why.
ReplyDeleteIf you become all famousy in Sweden, maybe they'll ask you to do speaking engagements and pay your way... That'd be cool.
I think all the people of Sweden should read your blog and comment on it. BTW the only one I know in Sweden is Jay Sargent and Ingela's family (which I don't really know but I have heard about some of them).
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