Blogging By Day of the Week
A colleague of mine observed in his reading trends on Google Reader that he reads more blog entries on a Thursday than any other day. His hypothesis was that by Thursday he's bored of office work and other routine stuff and so is more likely to choose to read blogs rather than undertaking other activity.
I checked my own reading trends and, sure enough, I read, on average almost twice as many entries on Thursday than the second most common day. Saturday is the day I read the least number of entries. The thing is, unless I'm travelling or really swamped at work, I generally clear my queue of blogs to read daily. Which means the Thursday thing could be more indicative of when entries are posted than when I take the time to read them.
My colleague points out, his argument could equally apply to posting as well as reading.
So I did a quick three-line Python script to output which day of the week each blog post of mine was made on and a sort | uniq -c dance gave me the following results:
- Monday 67
- Tuesday 106
- Wednesday 108
- Thursday 93
- Friday 115
- Saturday 125
- Sunday 93
So my lowest reading day is my highest posting day and my highest reading day is my equal second lowest posting day.
I guess I don't blog when other people do :-)
Comments (3)
James Tauber on Aug. 15, 2007:
Yan on Aug. 28, 2007:
The difference may be in the reader: I write primarily to a business, marketing, and communications crowd as opposed to an IT audience. Some of my content covers Linux from a non-technical perspective (or at least it's getting there). For some reason I think business looks to blogs for leadership on Mondays. Though I'm sure that I still read Slashdot and Engadget a lot more on Thursdays.
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Last Modified: Aug. 14, 2007
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