Comment by Jessica Denise — April 25, 2008 @ 3:30 am
Though almost clearly otherwise, I like Jessica’s suggestion.
Which can be quite true, for the time is used for something else, something that is perhaps more meaningful, more in-touch with reality?
p/s: Please, please do not take the above statement as a biased statement attacking Christian bloggers. I’m tired of people thinking of the things I wrote negatively. Perhaps, for once…?
I just checked my stats and Sunday came out with the LEAST hits (maybe only churchy people look at my blog) and Tuesday & Friday where the highest. Sunday is my worst DAY of the week!! and thats sad.
My blog activity is sporadic at best so I *think* I escape this one applying to me. Phew!
And for what ben said, it’s a funny one. I wonder if people want to serve their community of believers on Sunday, so take a sabbath rest on another day?
Surely that’s not going be cast up to them? I know plenty people who love to serve in their church family and as we know there’s something good about joyful giving, right?
Our challenge is getting the balance right - we are not so busy on other days getting ready for Sunday that we “forget” (or should I say neglect to rest).
Ha! My blog is usually least busy on a Saturday, probably when my Christian readers are having much needed family time, but Sunday is rather busy, especially the evening, even though I rarely blog myself on Sundays. Perhaps that’s because some strange people see reading my blog as rest!
Having only just started posting on any blogs at all - I have not even got to a Sunday yet.
There simply must be a way I can fit somthing else in on a Sunday what with the mad rush out the door with the kids, complete with yelling. Setting up the PA, standing in for the leader/preacher/worship leader/coffe rota/prayer ministry team/creche - please delete as appropriate. Cleaning up, crashing the PA, being available to the youth -regardless of what I am doing. Remembering I am a husband and Dad as well….oops. Home, dinner, hospitality with someone or other, tea, yelling at the kids/dog/wall. Then its evening church and it starts again!
Now for those of you experienced bloggy types who have done a Sunday before where, from your vast experience, do you think I should fit it in?
not to be pedantic, but everyone dips at the weekend. Maybe the weekend dips are just because all the civil servants are at home, away from their eight hours of facebook-filled 9-5!
OK, here’s the statistics. From my blog the most clicked link is ASBOJesus. I think you mayhave come second to my flickr account if people weren’t clicking on individual photos - they logged as separate sites.
I would bet that the reason so many people clicked ASBOJesus was the name. It is such a provokative title.
As for other stuff. I rarely go online on sundays. Weekends are for my wife. Sorry Jon, i read your weekend posts on monday. You’re just not as important to me as my marriage!
“hi mr. nighttime… remind me not to get taken into hospital on a sunday”
LOL. You have no idea how many calls I responded to as a paramedic, on Sundays, at church, where many a parishioner were moved by the spirit….usually to the floor……and too often in cardiac arrest.
I remember one time all too well, when we were attempting to resuscitate a cardiac arrest in a church, and the service kept going, withthe choir singing. (this was an AME church in Brooklyn.) I could not hear the doctor on the other end of the phone to get medication orders, and I literally had to scream at the top of my lungs to get them to stop the service. I got some strange looks, but I gave even stranger looks back.
The pastor came over to me and asked some questions, and I suggested he try “silent devotion” for the remainder of the time we would be there……
if the christian blog such as mine has sermons, then the stats go way up on saturday, I presume on saturday night as pastors are looking for something to rip off.
drewman i was with you until you said delete as appropriate. SOmetimes find myself doing all those things. Somethimes feels sad and sometimes rewarding. I often look at blogs on a sunday but rarely have the energy or inclination to engage
carole… enough about my saggy hits! they’re just fine!
a good yet pretty disturbing story mr. nighttime.
one day i’ll share a story about what jonny baker and i experienced in a meeting once… it’s disturbing so i’ll leave it for now.
peter kirk is right tom c… wordpress makes it easy… if it weren’t easy i wouldn’t know anything useful.
rhymes with kerouak… i guess stats are there for those wishing to make money from a blog. i find them fascinating, as i can find out who’s visited me and what they’ve said on their own blogs etc. i’ve seen these cartoons in blogs of lots of different languages, even chinese and japanese etc… i’d love to know what was being said in the text of those blogs. i’ve connected with some fascinating blogs just from looking at the stats. + i confess i do find it interesting knowing how many visits i get… sad, i know.
ibonewa… i do wonder whether some of my saturday visitors are ministers looking for resources.
as dave intonated… at least i know christians are where they should be… in church!
i use blogger and my wonderful hubby set up my statscounter for me using, um, statcounter.com and he imported a hits counter from somewhere, I think it’s pretty easy, but certainly the statcounter thing should be fairly easy to set up.
stats have their place and it even meant that when I used some of jon’s cartoons on my blog I think I was once visited by him and I felt much blessed
Stats are also there for those of us who want our egos to be stroked a little by the thought that lots of people (or at least lots of computers) are reading what we write. Especially helpful for anyone who isn’t too sure that God loves them.
[...] on Savoj Zizek (right) who is the envogue philospher of date, and a very interesting guy.This is a good cartoon on how to spot a Christian blog just by looking at the stats!Interesting piece of photojournalism on Boeings new Dreamliner..looks [...]
nope… genuinely couldn’t remember. i knew the twain association (that’s what i couldn’t remember) but i never knew disraeli said it. you learn something new everyday.
Looks like the EKG of some of the cardiac patients I treated in the past……
Comment by Mr. Nighttime — April 25, 2008 @ 2:25 am
hi mr. nighttime… remind me not to get taken into hospital on a sunday.
Comment by jonbirch — April 25, 2008 @ 2:37 am
Day of rest from blogging perhaps?
Comment by Jessica Denise — April 25, 2008 @ 3:30 am
Though almost clearly otherwise, I like Jessica’s suggestion.
Which can be quite true, for the time is used for something else, something that is perhaps more meaningful, more in-touch with reality?
p/s: Please, please do not take the above statement as a biased statement attacking Christian bloggers. I’m tired of people thinking of the things I wrote negatively. Perhaps, for once…?
Comment by zefi — April 25, 2008 @ 3:46 am
i know people whos live become extremely busy because of all the church stuff they do.
im so glad i dont go to a church like that.
Comment by ben — April 25, 2008 @ 5:20 am
hey zefi… i like jessica’s idea too. but like you i doubt that most are resting… more likely to be rushing around like mad things.
Comment by jonbirch — April 25, 2008 @ 7:22 am
I say - keep mon, tues, wed, thur, fri and sat special!! dave
Comment by Dave — April 25, 2008 @ 7:35 am
I just checked my stats and Sunday came out with the LEAST hits (maybe only churchy people look at my blog) and Tuesday & Friday where the highest. Sunday is my worst DAY of the week!! and thats sad.
Comment by dennis coburn — April 25, 2008 @ 7:37 am
Maybe it’s because on Sundays people aren’t bored at work surfing the internet …
Comment by kate — April 25, 2008 @ 8:50 am
I find my stats go up towards the middle of the week and drop off on a friday and come back up on a monday. I would have presumed otherwise.
That said, I don’t have a brain, I have a connection - so I am permanently wired up
Comment by Robb — April 25, 2008 @ 9:00 am
And what Kate said
Comment by Robb — April 25, 2008 @ 9:02 am
Yeah, this is another good ‘toon, Jon.
My blog activity is sporadic at best so I *think* I escape this one applying to me. Phew!
And for what ben said, it’s a funny one. I wonder if people want to serve their community of believers on Sunday, so take a sabbath rest on another day?
Surely that’s not going be cast up to them? I know plenty people who love to serve in their church family and as we know there’s something good about joyful giving, right?
Our challenge is getting the balance right - we are not so busy on other days getting ready for Sunday that we “forget” (or should I say neglect to rest).
Nice one, Jon.
Comment by Andy Weir — April 25, 2008 @ 9:06 am
and what Kate said
Comment by Andy Weir — April 25, 2008 @ 9:07 am
Ha! My blog is usually least busy on a Saturday, probably when my Christian readers are having much needed family time, but Sunday is rather busy, especially the evening, even though I rarely blog myself on Sundays. Perhaps that’s because some strange people see reading my blog as rest!
Comment by Peter Kirk — April 25, 2008 @ 9:24 am
Having only just started posting on any blogs at all - I have not even got to a Sunday yet.
There simply must be a way I can fit somthing else in on a Sunday what with the mad rush out the door with the kids, complete with yelling. Setting up the PA, standing in for the leader/preacher/worship leader/coffe rota/prayer ministry team/creche - please delete as appropriate. Cleaning up, crashing the PA, being available to the youth -regardless of what I am doing. Remembering I am a husband and Dad as well….oops. Home, dinner, hospitality with someone or other, tea, yelling at the kids/dog/wall. Then its evening church and it starts again!
Now for those of you experienced bloggy types who have done a Sunday before where, from your vast experience, do you think I should fit it in?
Comment by drewman — April 25, 2008 @ 9:55 am
http://www.statcounter.com/images/example_graph.gif
not to be pedantic, but everyone dips at the weekend. Maybe the weekend dips are just because all the civil servants are at home, away from their eight hours of facebook-filled 9-5!
(joking…
Comment by Pete Huey — April 25, 2008 @ 10:28 am
pete, you may be joking… but i reckon you’re right.
what kate said.
drewman… you should fit in just fine.
my guess is… the same people who serve everyone on a sunday also are the ones serving everyone all week. just a guess.
Comment by jonbirch — April 25, 2008 @ 12:20 pm
OK, here’s the statistics. From my blog the most clicked link is ASBOJesus. I think you mayhave come second to my flickr account if people weren’t clicking on individual photos - they logged as separate sites.
I would bet that the reason so many people clicked ASBOJesus was the name. It is such a provokative title.
Comment by Robb — April 25, 2008 @ 12:45 pm
“I would bet that the reason so many people clicked ASBOJesus was the name. It is such a provokative title.”
Hey, He was such a provocative guy.
Just ask the Pharisees.
Comment by FSWood — April 25, 2008 @ 12:51 pm
It’s great you are not becoming a stumbling blog to Christians Jon! dave
Comment by Dave — April 25, 2008 @ 1:06 pm
well no one reads my blog ANY day of the week…
As for other stuff. I rarely go online on sundays. Weekends are for my wife. Sorry Jon, i read your weekend posts on monday. You’re just not as important to me as my marriage!
Comment by Tom C — April 25, 2008 @ 1:24 pm
#15 drewman. Hahahahahahaha.
Love your description of your day of rest… Just fab. (And not unfamiliar)
Ax
Comment by AnneDroid — April 25, 2008 @ 4:41 pm
“hi mr. nighttime… remind me not to get taken into hospital on a sunday”
LOL. You have no idea how many calls I responded to as a paramedic, on Sundays, at church, where many a parishioner were moved by the spirit….usually to the floor……and too often in cardiac arrest.
I remember one time all too well, when we were attempting to resuscitate a cardiac arrest in a church, and the service kept going, withthe choir singing. (this was an AME church in Brooklyn.) I could not hear the doctor on the other end of the phone to get medication orders, and I literally had to scream at the top of my lungs to get them to stop the service. I got some strange looks, but I gave even stranger looks back.
The pastor came over to me and asked some questions, and I suggested he try “silent devotion” for the remainder of the time we would be there……
Comment by Mr. Nighttime — April 25, 2008 @ 5:02 pm
This cartoon is so true. My blog dips to a derisory zero hits on a Sunday from the lofty average daily heights of, oh, at least two or three…
Comment by Carole — April 25, 2008 @ 5:07 pm
I told you those hits were looking a bit saggy
or is it the remaining traces of two vapourised wombles?
Comment by Carole — April 25, 2008 @ 5:12 pm
how do you measure how many hits your blog is getting?
or in my case, how can I find out how many people don’t read my blog?
Comment by Tom C — April 25, 2008 @ 5:55 pm
Tom C, it’s not easy for you as you use Blogger. It would be much easier, indeed stats come built in, if you used WordPress like ASBO Jesus and me.
Comment by Peter Kirk — April 25, 2008 @ 6:37 pm
if the christian blog such as mine has sermons, then the stats go way up on saturday, I presume on saturday night as pastors are looking for something to rip off.
Comment by jbonewa — April 25, 2008 @ 9:55 pm
drewman i was with you until you said delete as appropriate.
SOmetimes find myself doing all those things. Somethimes feels sad and sometimes rewarding. I often look at blogs on a sunday but rarely have the energy or inclination to engage
Comment by Will — April 25, 2008 @ 10:16 pm
Blog stats? Really?
Why?
Comment by [rhymes with kerouac] — April 25, 2008 @ 10:21 pm
carole… enough about my saggy hits! they’re just fine!
a good yet pretty disturbing story mr. nighttime.
one day i’ll share a story about what jonny baker and i experienced in a meeting once… it’s disturbing so i’ll leave it for now.
peter kirk is right tom c… wordpress makes it easy… if it weren’t easy i wouldn’t know anything useful.
rhymes with kerouak… i guess stats are there for those wishing to make money from a blog. i find them fascinating, as i can find out who’s visited me and what they’ve said on their own blogs etc. i’ve seen these cartoons in blogs of lots of different languages, even chinese and japanese etc… i’d love to know what was being said in the text of those blogs. i’ve connected with some fascinating blogs just from looking at the stats. + i confess i do find it interesting knowing how many visits i get… sad, i know.
ibonewa… i do wonder whether some of my saturday visitors are ministers looking for resources.
as dave intonated… at least i know christians are where they should be… in church!
Comment by jonbirch — April 26, 2008 @ 12:29 am
i use blogger and my wonderful hubby set up my statscounter for me using, um, statcounter.com and he imported a hits counter from somewhere, I think it’s pretty easy, but certainly the statcounter thing should be fairly easy to set up.
stats have their place and it even meant that when I used some of jon’s cartoons on my blog I think I was once visited by him and I felt much blessed
Comment by jody — April 26, 2008 @ 7:20 am
Stats are also there for those of us who want our egos to be stroked a little by the thought that lots of people (or at least lots of computers) are reading what we write. Especially helpful for anyone who isn’t too sure that God loves them.
Comment by Peter Kirk — April 26, 2008 @ 11:52 am
[...] on Savoj Zizek (right) who is the envogue philospher of date, and a very interesting guy.This is a good cartoon on how to spot a Christian blog just by looking at the stats!Interesting piece of photojournalism on Boeings new Dreamliner..looks [...]
Pingback by Start of week from the End of Week Round up | Byrnesys Blabberings — April 29, 2008 @ 12:27 pm
I have a bit more irregular rhythm than that. But rest is good. Sometimes.
Comment by ron — April 30, 2008 @ 3:54 pm
who was it said ‘there are lies, damned lies and statistics’…?
Comment by jonbirch — April 30, 2008 @ 11:35 pm
It would appear to be disraeli and associated with M. Twain…
Comment by Robb — April 30, 2008 @ 11:54 pm
or was that rhetoric?
Comment by Robb — April 30, 2008 @ 11:55 pm
nope… genuinely couldn’t remember. i knew the twain association (that’s what i couldn’t remember) but i never knew disraeli said it. you learn something new everyday.
Comment by jonbirch — May 1, 2008 @ 12:08 am