Here's something that caught my attention when... reading the newspaper today, yeah, that's it... newspaper...
The Tribune had an article that said talked about reading blogs at work. I guess this started because the writer was... reading blogs at work and found this at Romensko (which I guess started because of something that was brought up at Ad Age).
Apparently, employees spend about 9% of their work-time reading blogs. And the Tribune article thinks that one of the reasons is that reading a blog looks like you're doing work (even though the blog being read is not work-related). As the Tribune writer (Steve Johnson) says: "To a boss standing at, say, 20 paces, reading a blog resembles work." Apparently, if you look at some blog stats, you'd see that page hits "peak during working hours, then plummet on weekends when, of course, there's no incentive to read them that's quite so strong as productivity avoidance".
Now, my stats start rising dramatically at about 11am and stay there all afternoon and then dip slightly over dinner and it's back up again from 7 to 8. The weekday/weekend usage tracks toward the workweek with the weekends lower.
Still, interesting that we're out on the web reading that many blogs...
2008
2007- A cold *nose wiggle* *nose wiggle*
2006- *nose wiggle* *nose wiggle*
2004- Another trip to the vet
- *nose wiggle*
2003- Wolves 4 - Griffins 3
- Nigerian 419 Scam Emails still coming
- *nose wiggle*
2002- Contract? Where?
- Fall
- Unemployment Tote Board
- Friday 5 - Religion
- *twitch*?