Two recent postings were mentioned on blogs with much higher readership than mine, which provides an opportunity to measure the impulse response of the blog to an external simulus.
The first peak comes from the Make magazine blog: they liked the trick of holding screws in slit nuts for trimming and finishing.
The second is from hackaday.com: they loved the Alpha-Geek Clock, although they linked to the inside circuitry.
It looks like an external blog mention is good for 50 to 60 hours of fame. After that, the search engines take over again.
You can tell nearly everybody arrives here from search engines, because the monthly view increases slightly more than linearly with the number of posts.
I’d love to believe that’s the start of exponential growth, but that’s just not going to happen!
Speaking of search engines, here are the top terms…
| Search Terms | |
| All Time | |
| Search | Views |
| arduino pwm frequency | 235 |
| milling | 223 |
| arduino pwm | 212 |
| transformer model | 99 |
| bellows | 94 |
| staghorn beetle | 87 |
| triple alert redemption | 83 |
| chain catcher | 81 |
| sherline | 79 |
| arduino command line | 79 |
| arduino fast pwm | 66 |
| cold solder joint | 66 |
| sherline mill | 56 |
| hd44780 arduino | 50 |
| cold solder | 50 |
| cold solder joints | 47 |
| sherline projects | 46 |
| magnetizer | 44 |
| avid rollamajig | 43 |
| triple alert | 43 |
Obviously, Arduino, electronics, and machine-shop topics are hot.
Who would have imagined, however, that so many people search the Internet to find pix of staghorn beetles? As of right now, though, Google gives my post two of the four image results and puts it on the first page. Evidently I give good writeup. Now, if only I were selling something, huh?
The most-viewed pages…
| Top Posts | |
| All Time | |
| Title | Views |
| Alpha-Geek Clock | 1836 |
| Changing the Arduino PWM Frequency | 1324 |
| Arduino Command Line Programming: Avrdud | 931 |
| Sherline Mill Counterweight Gantry | 928 |
| Finding Transformer Pi Model Parameters | 851 |
| Arduino Hardware-assisted SPI: Synchrono | 850 |
| Arduino Fast PWM: Faster | 740 |
| Dell GX270 Auto-On Power Setting | 659 |
| Arduino LiquidCrystal Library vs Old HD4 | 623 |
| Cold & Fractured Solder Joints | 493 |
| Kubuntu Remote Desktop via SSH Tunnel | 473 |
| Sunglasses Repair: Half a Hinge Is Bette | 420 |
| Sherline Bellows Covers The Cheap Way | 380 |
| Laser Alignment for the Sherline Mill | 364 |
| Recumbent Bicycle Amateur Radio Antenna | 341 |
| Arduino Push-Pull PWM | 336 |
| Tektronix 492 Spectrum Analyzer Backplan | 335 |
| Experian Triple-Alert Signup: FAIL | 312 |
| Holding Machine Screws for Trimming | 309 |
| Silver-soldered Bandsaw Blade Joint | 307 |
The Alpha-Geek Clock isn’t representative, due to the sudden peak that slapped it to the top of the list. It’s nice to know that folks are finding (and, presumably, using) the tech info that I put together.
A tip o’ the engineer’s cap to the two dozen of you who keep track of goings-on through the RSS feed. These posts are mostly for my own amusement and record-keeping, but I trust you find something useful every now and again.
A Happy New Year to one & all… and keep on building stuff in your shop!
The Smell of Molten Projects in the Morning 
Comments
2 responses to “Blog Impulse Response and Summary”
Happy New Year, Ed!
I come here every day from a bookmark in my browser to read what you have written. I appreciate you keeping this blog – allowing others to read your notes – and sharing your projects/tests/repairs/observations. I hope you don’t stop.
Here is a toast to your posts! :-)
Thanks kindly!
This blog started as a New Year’s Resolution last year, mostly as a way to document stuff that I’d otherwise lose in my heap. In fact, I now check my own posts, making sure I remember what I used to know. Memory is the first thing to go, I think someone told me. Maybe it’s the second?
Sometimes I think I should cut my blog “workload” by 3 dB, but the posts seem to be the easiest part of any project.
Onward, into another year of bashing & crashing…