For Weekend Assignment #217: Career Day on Outpost Mâvarin.
It all started here:
I could go on about how, in the most unlikeliest of coincidences, that I one day decided to be a blogger. Or a programmer. Or a writer. Or living on a secret island base.
But I decided a flowchart would get the idea across without torturing you all.
Just about any blogger eventually discovers the alluring world of site traffic tracking, whether it’s through Google Analytics, Site Meter, or lovely fresh Mint.
We wonder: what impact are we making out there? Who reads us?
Who likes us?
Now that’s one complicated question, and not always so easily answered. There are no little “like” graphs on your Wordpress.com stats dashboard. We can only infer—outside of honest confirmation from every single one of your visitors—whether people like your site or not.
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Update: Blade Off the Feather showed up as truncated. That’s been fixed, so now it actually is a story.
Back to your scheduled blog entry.
Life is change.
Spontaneous Derivation was born on October 10th, 2007 with a most innocuous post.
Since the first retrospective 3 months ago, Sd has gone through four redesigns, switched from Blogger to self-hosted WordPress, been Stumbled a few times, ended up on Entrecard’s main help page, and put through all manner and form of WordPress plugins.
And through all that, Spontaneous Derivation gained an actual focus for the first time: blogging as a writing form. Although the tag line is much more amusing (and more accurate, since Bein’ Like Totally SeRIouz is something I have a hard time keeping up).
Recently, I was tagged by the good Unfocused Life for the “Six Things About Me” meme. But since I’ve already got an entire page blathering about myself, I’ve decided to instead highlight six milestone articles (or series) I’ve written in these past three-and-some months. Each represents one big step in my development as a writer and blogger.
And while I’m indulging in some reminiscing, you’ll also get a preview of content to come.
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