This blog while originally setup as a demonstration of CSS/HTML skills and knowledge of blogging and CMS platforms has been attracting an increasing number of random visitors. One reason for this is that wordpress has automatic optimization of your blog posts for keyword and blogsearch hits (titles as fixed urls etc). For a business this is important for me I’m a bit indifferent to the casual visitor. So far I’ve mostly been getting visitors interested in biking around brooklyn, or curious as to why the MTA has weird kerning/fonts on some subway signs. One thing that has formed a pattern is that my blog posts achieve the most views the day they are posted and trail off afterwards. This might have something to do with the nature in which google ranks the relevance and importance of a blog post compared to a conventional web page.  Wikirecording.org a site that I setup with a friend a few years ago that while now inactive (with a lack of an admin or participatory user base) achieves increased hits/viewers every month (20k+ uniques).

Maybe now that my blog has the following sentence I’ll get visitors to the blog wanting to employ me. ”A NYU graduate, active and interested in new media marketing, venture capital, urban planning, economic development, entrepreneurial pursuits, graphic design, and web development.”

My friend Laura of Unheard.tv is managing the artist Matt Jones. As part of her press kit she wanted a downloadable album that was password protected. I looked at the mailform script I recently used for the better ventures site and turned it into a simple password check using the “ereg” property. I also laid out  a one sheet site for her. Check it out here: http://unheard.tv/mattjones.html.

Obama instead of creating a weekly radio address has decided to provide a similar thing on youtube (i’m guessing he will also do the radio one or create an audio version for the radio address when he becomes president). It’s quite cool and a sign of an administration more in tune with technological advances. The nytimes also discussed Obama’s attachment to his blackberry and the likelyhood that he will have to give it up because of data/email preservation requirements. Obama will also be the first president to have a computer in the Oval Office.