Comments for The Metric System http://themetricsystem.rjmetrics.com A blog about data by RJMetrics Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:03:16 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on “Single?” Lawn Signs Conquer the American Landscape by thecleaner http://themetricsystem.rjmetrics.com/2008/11/06/single-lawn-signs-conquer-the-american-landscape/#comment-1749 thecleaner Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:03:16 +0000 http://themetricsystem.wordpress.com/?p=45#comment-1749 we have been cleaning these up around Michigan, we are already up to 175 of these signs. They are pollution. If you would like your area clean tell us what city in, its FREE!!! we have been cleaning these up around Michigan, we are already up to 175 of these signs. They are pollution. If you would like your area clean tell us what city in, its FREE!!!

]]> Comment on MySQL “Lock Tables” Disappears: Privilege Revoked Automatically by Paul Kelly http://themetricsystem.rjmetrics.com/2009/08/21/mysql-lock-tables-disappears-privilege-revoked-automatically/#comment-1728 Paul Kelly Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:40:36 +0000 http://themetricsystem.rjmetrics.com/?p=1013#comment-1728 hi thanks very much for posting this! I've been tearing my hair out trying to figure this one out and have had the tech support at vps.net stumped too! Think I'll go with option 3... seems the safest way thanks again... hi

thanks very much for posting this!

I’ve been tearing my hair out trying to figure this one out and have had the tech support at vps.net stumped too!

Think I’ll go with option 3… seems the safest way

thanks again…

]]> Comment on New Data on Twitter’s Users and Engagement by erich nolan bertussi davies http://themetricsystem.rjmetrics.com/2010/01/26/new-data-on-twitters-users-and-engagement/#comment-1713 erich nolan bertussi davies Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:12:44 +0000 http://themetricsystem.rjmetrics.com/?p=1430#comment-1713 i find it very interesting that my adaptation and use of social media could only hold off until November 2008 when the last insistence of a staff member @ my wife's firm fell upon my deaf ears.. ( former staff now ) that social media and Facebook and Twitter were a wholesale wast of time.. we'd already prescribed their use and hoped to build auto syndication from our CMS's integrated blog system, but staff was leery and downright vehemently opposed to twitter and Facebook.. 1 year 3 months later. I can comfortably say that their adaptation has been quicker more useful and less painful than e-mail and domain names remain to be for new and painfully slow to catch up business. micro bloggin does what no other tech has to date. it gives us all a clue about what is going on in our local area, from people whom we know well or strangers whom we may never meet... i find it very interesting that my adaptation and use of social media could only hold off until November 2008 when the last insistence of a staff member @ my wife’s firm fell upon my deaf ears.. ( former staff now ) that social media and Facebook and Twitter were a wholesale wast of time.. we’d already prescribed their use and hoped to build auto syndication from our CMS’s integrated blog system, but staff was leery and downright vehemently opposed to twitter and Facebook.. 1 year 3 months later. I can comfortably say that their adaptation has been quicker more useful and less painful than e-mail and domain names remain to be for new and painfully slow to catch up business.

micro bloggin does what no other tech has to date.

it gives us all a clue about what is going on in our local area, from people whom we know well or strangers whom we may never meet…

]]> Comment on Is America Rooting for a Twitter Downfall? Some Evidence. by erich nolan bertussi davies http://themetricsystem.rjmetrics.com/2010/02/08/is-america-rooting-for-a-twitter-downfall-some-evidence/#comment-1712 erich nolan bertussi davies Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:01:30 +0000 http://themetricsystem.rjmetrics.com/?p=1460#comment-1712 Reporters have always known how to manipulate the system, this is why they hate Blogging and micro Blogs alike, cause the system is democratised and out of their control. like all dinos they seem to try and make every one else also go extinct around them as they die off into media dead zone, as we the Netizens of this world merge our media into the net zone.. where we deliberately are doing all we can to level the playing field. at the end of the day.. they can only incite so much as we do not make aware and participant each and every last member of society.. luddites can be avoided if not by choice then by white hat propaganda.. use their game to opt out of the game entirely.. that they hate too... bottom line... it's all out of the Dino's control and Dino hates that.. time for extinctions.. mass extinctions.. before one happens globally physiologically to us humans i say ;) Reporters have always known how to manipulate the system, this is why they hate Blogging and micro Blogs alike, cause the system is democratised and out of their control.

like all dinos they seem to try and make every one else also go extinct around them as they die off into media dead zone, as we the Netizens of this world merge our media into the net zone.. where we deliberately are doing all we can to level the playing field.

at the end of the day.. they can only incite so much as we do not make aware and participant each and every last member of society..

luddites can be avoided if not by choice then by white hat propaganda..

use their game to opt out of the game entirely.. that they hate too…

bottom line… it’s all out of the Dino’s control and Dino hates that..

time for extinctions.. mass extinctions.. before one happens globally physiologically to us humans i say ;)

]]> Comment on Is America Rooting for a Twitter Downfall? Some Evidence. by Jesse Farmer http://themetricsystem.rjmetrics.com/2010/02/08/is-america-rooting-for-a-twitter-downfall-some-evidence/#comment-1711 Jesse Farmer Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:20:27 +0000 http://themetricsystem.rjmetrics.com/?p=1460#comment-1711 Eh. Of course the percentage of users tweeting per month is going down -- the denominator is growing exponentially and Twitter users aren't necessarily engaged immediately. I wrote an article about this stuff last May. http://venturebeat.com/2009/05/19/twitter-is-retaining-more-users-than-nielsen-thinks/ Eh. Of course the percentage of users tweeting per month is going down — the denominator is growing exponentially and Twitter users aren’t necessarily engaged immediately.

I wrote an article about this stuff last May.

http://venturebeat.com/2009/05/19/twitter-is-retaining-more-users-than-nielsen-thinks/

]]> Comment on RJMetrics Feature Spotlight: Growth Perspectives by robertjmoore http://themetricsystem.rjmetrics.com/2009/07/09/rjmetrics-feature-spotlight-growth-perspectives/#comment-1701 robertjmoore Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:55:39 +0000 http://themetricsystem.rjmetrics.com/?p=760#comment-1701 BB, that's a great question that we come across often. Interestingly, it's actually an issue regardless of whether you use a 364-day calendar or a 365-day calendar (remember, the 365-day version throws leap years at you every four years). For cases like New Year's Eve that always fall on the same calendar day, you can simply create a chart for any given New Year's Eve and use our "Compare to Previous Year" feature to see a comparison. For cases like Thanksgiving that are more unpredictably placed, you can use our composite chart editor to do an explicit comparison of two dates that are each manually entered. Both of these solutions take just a few seconds to accomplish in the RJMetrics Dashboard. Thanks for the great question! BB, that’s a great question that we come across often. Interestingly, it’s actually an issue regardless of whether you use a 364-day calendar or a 365-day calendar (remember, the 365-day version throws leap years at you every four years).

For cases like New Year’s Eve that always fall on the same calendar day, you can simply create a chart for any given New Year’s Eve and use our “Compare to Previous Year” feature to see a comparison.

For cases like Thanksgiving that are more unpredictably placed, you can use our composite chart editor to do an explicit comparison of two dates that are each manually entered.

Both of these solutions take just a few seconds to accomplish in the RJMetrics Dashboard.

Thanks for the great question!

]]> Comment on RJMetrics Feature Spotlight: Growth Perspectives by Brian Basden http://themetricsystem.rjmetrics.com/2009/07/09/rjmetrics-feature-spotlight-growth-perspectives/#comment-1699 Brian Basden Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:01:23 +0000 http://themetricsystem.rjmetrics.com/?p=760#comment-1699 Came across this post looking for ideas on how to handle leap year issues. Awesome idea of using 364 days to give a Friday versus Friday comparison, but I have two questions: 1) What about a holiday like Thanksgiving that's always on a Thursday? Between 2008 & 2009 it was 364 days apart, but between 2007 & 2008 it was 371 days apart because of the leap year issue. 2) What about a holiday like New Year's Eve that's always on the same calendar date? I'm sure restaurants and bars have much lower revenue when December 31st falls on a Wednesday versus a Friday or Saturday. Thanks! ~BB Came across this post looking for ideas on how to handle leap year issues.

Awesome idea of using 364 days to give a Friday versus Friday comparison, but I have two questions:

1) What about a holiday like Thanksgiving that’s always on a Thursday? Between 2008 & 2009 it was 364 days apart, but between 2007 & 2008 it was 371 days apart because of the leap year issue.

2) What about a holiday like New Year’s Eve that’s always on the same calendar date? I’m sure restaurants and bars have much lower revenue when December 31st falls on a Wednesday versus a Friday or Saturday.

Thanks!
~BB

]]> Comment on New Data on Twitter’s Users and Engagement by Jesse Learmonth http://themetricsystem.rjmetrics.com/2010/01/26/new-data-on-twitters-users-and-engagement/#comment-1694 Jesse Learmonth Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:08:14 +0000 http://themetricsystem.rjmetrics.com/?p=1430#comment-1694 Great summary and of course fascinating findings- thanks for sharing. Is it possible for you to provide the & values for each segment in the "Number of Tweets" pie chart? I'd be curious to see those actual numbers rather than trying to relate it all strictly on the visual cues of the chart. Cheers! Great summary and of course fascinating findings- thanks for sharing.

Is it possible for you to provide the & values for each segment in the “Number of Tweets” pie chart? I’d be curious to see those actual numbers rather than trying to relate it all strictly on the visual cues of the chart.

Cheers!

]]> Comment on New Data on Twitter’s Users and Engagement by Brian Hancock http://themetricsystem.rjmetrics.com/2010/01/26/new-data-on-twitters-users-and-engagement/#comment-1685 Brian Hancock Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:26:00 +0000 http://themetricsystem.rjmetrics.com/?p=1430#comment-1685 Very interesting findings and thanks for putting in the time to accumulate and report on this data. Your article makes it clear that Twitter needs to be more aggressive in making accounts inactive due to lack of activity. This data can really cast their community in a bad light... Very interesting findings and thanks for putting in the time to accumulate and report on this data. Your article makes it clear that Twitter needs to be more aggressive in making accounts inactive due to lack of activity. This data can really cast their community in a bad light…

]]> Comment on New Data on Twitter’s Users and Engagement by Jim http://themetricsystem.rjmetrics.com/2010/01/26/new-data-on-twitters-users-and-engagement/#comment-1683 Jim Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:43:21 +0000 http://themetricsystem.rjmetrics.com/?p=1430#comment-1683 Very interesting analysis. I look forward to seeing future updates, always curious... will Twitter continue to have popularity, or is it a stepping stone to the next best thing? Very interesting analysis. I look forward to seeing future updates, always curious… will Twitter continue to have popularity, or is it a stepping stone to the next best thing?

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