2010 in review

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is doing awesome!.

Crunchy numbers

A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 1,500 times in 2010. That’s about 4 full 747s.

In 2010, there were 17 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 56 posts. There were 40 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 6mb. That’s about 3 pictures per month.

The busiest day of the year was August 30th with 32 views. The most popular post that day was GW2 Necromancer Revealed.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were killtenrats.com, guildwars2guru.com, relicsoforr.com, en.wordpress.com, and Google Reader.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for sabway, sabway build, gw2 map, the hidden city of ahdashim vanquish, and aureate.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

1

GW2 Necromancer Revealed August 2010
3 comments

2

Vanquishing, Builds and Me March 2008

3

SABway and Dwarfway February 2008
5 comments

4

Vanquishing Ascalon January 2008

5

Guild Wars Beyond and Heroes August 2010
1 comment

Busy

Ok, it has officially been a month between posts. Little has been done by way of Guild Wars this month as I have been working on my research paper and finishing up this semester. These are nearly complete, so hopefully I’ll be able to unwind a bit and play on GW some more.

Daedalus Project

I added a link to Nick Yee’s Daedalus Project. This is a series of studies measuring behavior in and out of online communities. In particular, Nick coined the term “Proteus Effect” which accounts for the phenomenon whereby “users in online environments may conform to the expectations and stereotypes of the identity of their avatars… they conform to the behavior that they believe others would expect them to have.” (Yee, 2007)

I’ve found his research fascinating and I will be doing similar research of my own, beginning by assessing real world self-perception and its effect on Avatar creation.

Nick’s project can be found by following the link below.