Comments on: The State of the Blog 03/30/08 http://www.soyouwanttoteach.com/the-state-of-the-blog-033008/ Providing HOPE for educators since 2007 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 17:59:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Joelhttp://www.soyouwanttoteach.com/the-state-of-the-blog-033008/#comment-1902 Joel Thu, 03 Apr 2008 03:02:12 +0000 http://www.soyouwanttoteach.com/?p=392#comment-1902 For the math geeks out there, I updated the numbers to reflect the March actual numbers. :) For the math geeks out there, I updated the numbers to reflect the March actual numbers. :)

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]]> By: Joelhttp://www.soyouwanttoteach.com/the-state-of-the-blog-033008/#comment-1876 Joel Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:56:07 +0000 http://www.soyouwanttoteach.com/?p=392#comment-1876 @Chad The stats are collected from a smattering of plugins. FeedBurner tells me my subscribers, Google Analytics tells me my page views, and WordPress Stats tells me the number of visitors per month. I am thrilled with the growth! It amazes me every day. I remember the first time I saw it over 100, I was floored. Now it's just four months later and things are getting crazy. @Jonathan and Mr. D If I had kept better records of subscribers from 2007, it would have been much easier to see the exponential growth. The thing is, I had 1 (go me!) back in February of last year when I started it. It stayed was below 70 all the way through the first week of October. At that point, things began to take off slowly, increasing to over 90 in less than a week. Things slowed a bit, but lately they have begun to get on the rise again. It's linearISH and exponentialISH. Is that possible? The linear trendline in Excel has me reaching 250 somewhere around May 8th...I'll email you the exact numbers. @Chad

The stats are collected from a smattering of plugins. FeedBurner tells me my subscribers, Google Analytics tells me my page views, and WordPress Stats tells me the number of visitors per month. I am thrilled with the growth! It amazes me every day. I remember the first time I saw it over 100, I was floored. Now it’s just four months later and things are getting crazy.

@Jonathan and Mr. D

If I had kept better records of subscribers from 2007, it would have been much easier to see the exponential growth. The thing is, I had 1 (go me!) back in February of last year when I started it. It stayed was below 70 all the way through the first week of October. At that point, things began to take off slowly, increasing to over 90 in less than a week. Things slowed a bit, but lately they have begun to get on the rise again. It’s linearISH and exponentialISH. Is that possible?

The linear trendline in Excel has me reaching 250 somewhere around May 8th…I’ll email you the exact numbers.

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]]> By: Mr. Dhttp://www.soyouwanttoteach.com/the-state-of-the-blog-033008/#comment-1875 Mr. D Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:19:33 +0000 http://www.soyouwanttoteach.com/?p=392#comment-1875 Joel, # We reached 100 subscribers for the first time on November 15th. # We reached 150 subscribers for the first time on January 15th. # We reached 200 subscribers for the first time on February 25th. # We reached 250 subscribers for the first time on March 26th. # Excel tells me that we are on course to reach 450 by July 31st. Any math nerds teachers out there want to tell us what the technical name for this exponential trend is? If your subscribers were growing exponentially, the term is exponential growth. However, this isn't exponential growth, this is a linear relationship because it's increasing by about 50 subscribers (the same amount) each month. So you could create an equation, assuming that you had 0 in September, close to y = 50x, where x is the month and y is the number of subscribers. This would be an interesting challenge for my students! Tom Joel,

# We reached 100 subscribers for the first time on November 15th.
# We reached 150 subscribers for the first time on January 15th.
# We reached 200 subscribers for the first time on February 25th.
# We reached 250 subscribers for the first time on March 26th.
# Excel tells me that we are on course to reach 450 by July 31st. Any math nerds teachers out there want to tell us what the technical name for this exponential trend is?

If your subscribers were growing exponentially, the term is exponential growth. However, this isn’t exponential growth, this is a linear relationship because it’s increasing by about 50 subscribers (the same amount) each month. So you could create an equation, assuming that you had 0 in September, close to y = 50x, where x is the month and y is the number of subscribers. This would be an interesting challenge for my students!

Tom

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]]> By: Jonathanhttp://www.soyouwanttoteach.com/the-state-of-the-blog-033008/#comment-1873 Jonathan Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:46:58 +0000 http://www.soyouwanttoteach.com/?p=392#comment-1873 "Any math nerds teachers out there want to tell us what the technical name for this exponential trend is?" Exponential? Exponential growth? Absolutely amazing? Seriously, let me think. I might have a guest post to offer (not a rehash of what I put on my blog). And congrats. March seems to be a great month for a lot of teacher bloggers (Feb was my best ever, with 24k page views, and I am over 28k this month, with a weekday left...) “Any math nerds teachers out there want to tell us what the technical name for this exponential trend is?”

Exponential? Exponential growth? Absolutely amazing?

Seriously, let me think. I might have a guest post to offer (not a rehash of what I put on my blog).

And congrats. March seems to be a great month for a lot of teacher bloggers (Feb was my best ever, with 24k page views, and I am over 28k this month, with a weekday left…)

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]]> By: Chad L. (IMC Guy)http://www.soyouwanttoteach.com/the-state-of-the-blog-033008/#comment-1872 Chad L. (IMC Guy) Sun, 30 Mar 2008 13:17:13 +0000 http://www.soyouwanttoteach.com/?p=392#comment-1872 Where did you get your stats? You should be pleased with the growth of your site! Where did you get your stats?

You should be pleased with the growth of your site!

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