I’ve been back online for a couple weeks now, and a couple people (45-90 a day) have discovered my return to the site. While I was looking at my site analytics I looked at the distribution of readership and had a bit of an “ah ha” moment. I thought, “I’ve seen this picture before, it’s the web 2.0 map that’s been floating around in my head”. See the deep green of California, with lighter areas throughout Texas, Washington, New York, and Florida.
It’s a pretty good representation of what areas the “web 2.0″ (god I hate that word) community is active. It makes sense because the people most likely to come across this blog are the ones dedicated enough to dig through TechCrunch’s about page or search for the specific terms I use in my articles. Of course the Cali bias can be explained by my friends in the area, but I don’t have that many friends dedicated enough to log on to my blog daily.
Anyway, thanks for reading or stumbling upon this blog or perhaps checking my notes feed while drunkenly Facebooking.
July 12th, 2007 at 8:46 pm
Considering you work for TechCrunch, I hope this doesn’t come as a surprise!
I’d be intrigued to see an international map (or numbers).. any trends to extrapolate there?
July 12th, 2007 at 9:47 pm
Thanks Peter. I see you wrote a Ruby book. My friends and I have been fooling around with Ruby ourselves, mashing together a rental search site on the weekends. When it’s ready, I’ll let people know.
July 19th, 2007 at 6:47 am
Cool! We’re going to start doing some summary posts of new Rails / Ruby applications soon, so definitely let me know about it. More reliable e-mail address used on this comment..
July 20th, 2007 at 3:47 pm
Sounds great, if we ever get it finished….