Tag Archives: accuracy

PlayTyme

Posted on November 7th, 2008 by Tyme White in Miscellaneous

It’s the end of the year and the same thing happens every year. I want to chill out. The same thing happened in school as far back as I can remember. First couple of weeks I dive into the class. About half-way through I become bored. The last weeks of the class mentally I checked [...]

Fight your own battles

Posted on May 11th, 2007 by Tyme White in Miscellaneous

It saddens me that I have to write this because seriously, this should have blown over by now. Sorry…but this is about the Bryan thing. I know, it should be over…sigh, but I have to set the record straight.
Rob Goodlatte’s site was brought to my attention where he said Rob said:
All I know of Bryan’s [...]

I communicate with my ad company, do you?

Posted on March 15th, 2007 by Tyme White in Business

Writers and bloggers will always be fascinated by statistics and I always recommend to use them as a guide, don’t get caught up in them because accuracy will always be an issue.
There is a problem: what do you do if you want to monetize your site and advertising companies you use rely on third party [...]

FeedBurner questions

Posted on January 10th, 2007 by Tyme White in Miscellaneous

As mentioned here, I will be doing an interview with Rick Klau from FeedBurner to answer some questions about FeedBurner’s service. There were some very good questions brought up in the comments and I’d like to take this opportunity ask if you have any other questions? You have their ear, if you have questions, now [...]

Instead of bashing, let’s learn something

Posted on January 7th, 2007 by Tyme White in Miscellaneous

As predicted, the Mashable/Pageflakes inflated stats issue was resolved. Seems the accurate number is 27K. So instead of bashing Mashable, which accomplishes nothing, what can we learn from this?
It’s good the truth came out
It is good that one site’s numbers were so outlandish it drew attention so the problem can be fixed. Yes, Mashable’s number [...]

Say what you mean and mean what you say

Posted on January 3rd, 2007 by Tyme White in Miscellaneous

There is a joke about how women behave to different situations. When a man asks a woman what is wrong, she’ll say “fine” or imply everything is okay when in truth, she has something on her mind. Many times the man knows she’s not fine but there isn’t anything he can do. It doesn’t mean [...]

Pageflakes, FeedBurner, accuracy in stats

Posted on December 26th, 2006 by Tyme White in Miscellaneous

**Read the update at the bottom***
BoingBoing is questioning their RSS stats provided by FeedBurner:
We frankly don’t believe that nearly two million folks have decided to subscribe to BoingBoing via this relatively new service, and we suspect someone (or more specifically, somebot) is taking advantage of the service for some kind of spammy reasons. We’re looking [...]

The Writing Process

Posted on September 18th, 2006 by Tyme White in Miscellaneous

There is a process most people go through when they write something. This might not be the same for everyone but there is one commonality: the writer can go back and forth between stages. There are five stages: pre-writing, drafting, revising, editing and publishing.
Pre-writing
This occurs when the writer organizes their thoughts or how the idea [...]

Perception and Influence through blogs

Posted on February 8th, 2006 by Tyme White in Miscellaneous

I want to thank Aaron and James for reminding me of a topic I meant to revisit and that is perception and influence through blogs. I expressed my thoughts on influence via blogs before. I am not influenced by one entry but many entries saying the same thing will catch my attention, but I still [...]