Am I doing it right?

Last week, June 9, was the 1 year anniversary of this blog. I thought it’d be fun to post some stats and to see how my numbers compare to other people’s first year stats.

I had a total of 38,247 views this past year. My busiest day had 373 views.

Last month was my busiest month with 5,808 views.

My top referrer comes from a blog comment I left on Hack N Mod.

My most viewed post is “Tutorial: How to Crack WEP on a Mac“.

366 people viewed my blog by searching for “spoonwep”.

922 people went to download BackTrack after reading my tutorial on how to crack WEP.

As you can see from the screenshots of my stats, most of my traffic is related to cracking WEP passwords, polyphasic sleep, pirating software, and abs.

Although having my traffic increase is great, I find making connections with important people in fields that I’m interested in more important.

Anyone care to share their first year stats with me?

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- Adventures in Polyphasic Sleeping (feed)
- Arrr! Prepare to be boarded. (feed)
- Alpha Nerd (feed)
- Set Free (feed)

Federico Pistono feed added to Adventures in Polyphasic Sleeping

Woot! Got my first feed (other than mine) added to “Adventures in Polyphasic Sleeping“. Federico Pistono is not currently a polyphasic sleeper, but tells me he plans to get back into it (transcript below).

Here’s his first post on polyphasic sleep when he was actually on it. All of his posts on polyphasic sleep, along with mine, should be showing up in the Adventures in Polyphasic Sleeping feed shortly.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Federico Pistono
Date: Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 4:43 AM
Subject: Re: [Business Deal/Offer] Adventures in Polyphasic Sleeping
To: jorel314@gmail.com

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 1:20 AM, wrote:

Jorel sent a message using the contact form at

http://www.federicopistono.org/contact.

Hello!

I am currently seeking out and giving advice to polyphasic sleepers. Here’s some advice I gave to one blogger:

http://annacallahan.livejournal.com/12999.html?thread=36807#t36807

I was wondering if you’d be interested in participating in the “Adventures
in Polyphasic Sleeping” feed. The beginnings can be seen here:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/aips?format=xml

The plan is to combine blog posts by past and current polyphasic sleepers
into one feed, so others interested can get tips or cheer people on.

I will only include feeds with direct permission from the blogger. If the
blogger already has posts about polyphasic sleep, all they need to do is
add the tag, label, or category called “aips” to their existing posts
they want included on Adventures in Polyphasic Sleeping. If the blogger
doesn’t want their posts to show up anymore in the future, they simply
have to delete the “aips” tag, label, or category from their posts.

I am not doing this as any sort of business venture, so I prefer feeds
with no ads. I am doing this because I believe that polyphasic sleep can
be an alternative to monophasic sleep. Many people switch back to
monophasic sleep not because of health issues, but due to social
pressures. Having more polyphasic sleepers out there can ease the
pressure.

Please let me know if you are interested. Thanks!

Jorel

Hi Jorel,
interesting project. Yes, I will be delighted to join your feed. I stopped PS a while ago, but I planned to switch back now that I have a new job.

If you want you can add directly my feed about polyphasic, you can find it here:

http://www.federicopistono.org/taxonomy/term/1

I’ll keep you posted.
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Lives of Polyphasic Bloggers

Update (6/17/08 @ 17:25): Click here instead for a list of current polyphasic bloggers.

Whilst I was updating the list of active polyphasic bloggers, I thought it was a pain to go to each blog, click the feed icon, and add each to my Google Reader.

To save others the trouble, I created the Lives of Polyphasic Bloggers feed using Yahoo! Pipes. Subscribing to this feed means you won’t have to keep searching for new polyphasic bloggers to add since I’ll be doing that for you.

I find the lives of people who choose polyphasic sleep to be interesting, so this feed not only includes posts on their experiences with polyphasic sleep, but also all their other posts. Maybe there’s a cross section of interests, besides polyphasic sleeping, that these bloggers have in common.

This feed is different from the Adventures in Polyphasic Sleeping feed. The Adventures in Polyphasic Sleeping feed will include posts directly submitted by the bloggers themselves in regards to the topic of polyphasic sleep only and nothing else.

You can subscribe to the Lives of Polyphasic Bloggers feed by clicking the icon above.

Active Polyphasic Bloggers

Update (6/17/08 @ 17:25): Click here instead for a list of current polyphasic bloggers.

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I spent the majority of my morning updating the list of active polyphasic bloggers on the outdated polyphasicsleep.info wiki.

I moved several bloggers on the list from “active” to “past” and added a few more to “active” that I found using Summize, Google Alerts, and FriendFeed

--- # Blogs of Active Polyphasic Sleepers
- http://www.puredoxyk.com/
- http://sleepsask.blogspot.com/
- http://polyphasicsleepfor100days.blogspot.com/
- http://ohgodthechicken.com/
- http://thenazg.blogspot.com
- http://vurlix.blogspot.com/
- http://www.thraze.com/blog
- http://dreamlarger.wordpress.com/
…

All the bloggers above currently are on the polyphasic sleep schedule and have blogged about it this month. I discovered several more who are preparing to start their transition (which includes me). Once they actually start and blog about it, I’ll add them to the list. If you know any other active polyphasic bloggers, please don’t hesitate to let me know. Thanks!

I added all their feeds to my Google Reader too, so I can easily keep track of how they’re doing.

That’s what I love about wikis and the open source philosophy in general, anyone can pickup where someone else ended which helps the ideas live on forever.