January 2009 Thoughts

Posted By: Bob Buskirk on February 3rd, 2009
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January was a great month for me, as always in January I headed to Las Vegas for CES. It was great to get away and I had so much fun on that trip. Coming back to Pittsburgh made me realize that I really need to seriously consider moving out to California. There is no point to living in Pittsburgh with the job that I have. I want to live where it never snows and is sunny most of the time. This month I only managed to get out 8 posts, most of which were about my trip to Las Vegas. I have really been putting my all into ThinkComputers so that really does not leave that much time for other things like this blog. My favorite post of January was Working From Home – No Motivation. It was the only post of last month that was not about my trip and it got the most comments. It’s always good to see people interested and commenting on your posts.

Popular Posts
So what were people looking at this month? Here are the top 5 posts from this month.

Starting Your Day off Right

The CES Swag

Pano iPhone App

Keeping Track of Money and Payments

Motivation: Movies

Once again many of my older posts are getting picked up and linked by other sites, that is why they still get good traffic!

Traffic Sources

Interesting to see StumbleUpon at the top, but that is because the Starting Your Day off Article got stumbled! Also Facebook is in the mix again!

Top Commentators
Another slow month for comments, but we did have a few people getting in on the conversation.

The Top Commentators for January 2009 were Colin Dean, Abalone Beads, Make Money Online, Tyler, and Moulinneuf. Thanks for contributing to the conversation guys!

Stats

RSS Readers

-3

Twitter Followers

+22

Facebook Friends

+45

On To February
As always I want to blog more, I really enjoy blogging and it gets my mind off other things that can stress me out. My time management has been much better, I have been getting a lot done between ThinkComputers and this blog, so hopefully I can keep it up!

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10 Responses to “January 2009 Thoughts”

Tyler said on February 3rd, 2009 at 7:04 pm

I like reading other people’s stats on their blogs. Now what I’d like to see also is how tech sites such as yours, perhaps TTZ and others do on a monthly basis too! Though I guess those are guarded secrets eh

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Shawn Knight Reply:
February 4th, 2009 at 4:28 am
Funny you mention that, I actually spent some time today making a chart of my tech site’s traffic stats in 08 compared to those from 2006 and 2007. Don’t want to give away exact numbers, but I will say traffic increased consistently throughout the year

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Make Money Online said on February 4th, 2009 at 12:32 am

Yeah Bob, I added you as friend on face book! That was one from me hehe.. Ever considered making your twitter autofollow so more people follow you?

Ben

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Shawn Knight said on February 4th, 2009 at 4:27 am

Cali would be cool, as you would be within driving distance to some big name players (considering you lived near there). How serious are you about moving?

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Bob Buskirk Reply:
February 4th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
I’m very serious, there really is nothing here holding me back from moving there

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Moulinneuf Reply:
February 4th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
Price of living ?

http://www.bestplaces.net/col/

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Shawn Knight Reply:
February 8th, 2009 at 8:36 pm
Agreed – the price of living our on the west coast is very high, and since you wouldn’t be getting a pay increase (initially)… may backfire on ya heh

Shawn Knight’s last blog post..French Fried Onion Baked Chicken
Sarah said on February 6th, 2009 at 12:32 am

Yeah working online enable you to live where ever you want to…I suggest you to start take a real step moving. When you are happy, you’ll have a lot of idea and enthusiasm.

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Sire said on February 6th, 2009 at 10:04 pm

Heck, if you want to come to somewhere a little warmer you should try Adelaide. It was 43C today and we had a bit of a heat wave with something like 7 days or so over 40C the highest being 46C. I tell you, day like today I could do with a bit of snow.

I’m surprised that you comments are down, especially with the RSS readers and all. Still there is plenty of the year ahead to make improvements.

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Abalone Beads said on February 9th, 2009 at 9:33 am

You shouldn’t knock the snow man. Can’t really enjoy something hot to drink in California. Can’t enjoy something hot in the sun, can’t enjoy something cold in the winter. Can’t get much better than a hot Cocoa in Michigan.

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