393 posts in 2017

In 2017 I posted in this academic (b)log, Utopian Realism, 393 times. 2.769 blog posts in the 10 year period 2008-2017 results in an annual average of 277 blog posts. Despite being higher than this long-term average, I posted less in 2017 than in the last three years.

Blogpost on biosemiotics to appear in Springer´s LifeScienceToday blog

Along with co-editors of Biosemiotics Alexei Sharov and Timo Maran, I have composed a blogpost, mostly drawing on text from our jointly written editorials, for Springer´s blog LifeScienceToday. Our blogpost is entitled "Biosemiotics: Making sense of nature" and will appear one of the next few days.

439 blog posts in 2015

2015 saw 439 blog posts in Utopian Realism. This is second-highest in the history of the blog (established 2008), slightly below the record level in 2014.

Despite the high frequency of posting, I am only keeping track, more or less, with current activities, and not really catching up with my old backlog.

Webstats, Scribd: 14 documents with 1,000+ reads

It's been a while since I've posted statistics about my Scribd page, where there are as of now 43 documents from my hand. As of today these documents have a total of 46,121 views, which means that on average each document has had more than 1,000 views. I have 19 followers and 36 likes.

Ranked by number of reads, this is those with at least 1,000 reads as of today:

1. Utopisk Realisme 2009: 3,759 reads

2. Utopisk Realisme 2010: 2,990 reads

3. The Statistician's Guide to Utopia: The Future of Growth: 2,587 reads

4. Utopian Realism 2009: 1,775 reads

5. Om fluer og filosofi [interview with Arne Næss]: 1,699 reads

6. Historieløst om klima: 1,582 reads

7. Utopian Realism 2010: 1,486 reads

8. Steps to a semiotics of being (PPT): 1,314 reads

9. The bio-translator - interview with biosemiotician Kalevi Kull: 1,189 reads

10. Burlesk vitenskapsparodi: 1,123 reads

11. Program Zoosemiotics and animal representations: 1,110 reads 

12. Umwelt transition: Uexküllian phenomenology - research plan: 1,023 reads

13. Tidsvitne omslag [book cover]: 1,010 reads

14. 20 års moratorium mot oljeleting: 1,008 reads

The latest version of my CV, posted in February 2013, has 944 reads. Latest online version of my bibliography, posted February 2012, has 933 reads.

Some 2 years ago only 7 documents had more than 1,000 reads (but note that some versions of my CV and bibliography may reach 1,000 + and then be removed when updated). My blog collection for 2009 for Utopisk Realisme is leading now as then, attracting close to 1,000 reads per year. The most read academic article, The Statistician's Guide to Utopia: The Future of Growth, has in comparison had only 600 reads the last couple of years combined. The bio-translator - interview with biosemiotician Kalevi Kull has had close to 800 views the last 2 years, Om fluer og filosofi [interview with Arne Næss] only 2-300.

See also:

Most read at Scribd (February 2012)

Web stats 2012 (blogs etc.)

Webstats, 2012 (pageloads)

1. Utopisk Realisme [political, Norwegian language blog] 10.540
2. Utopian Realism [academic blog] 5.576
3. SemioPhenomenon [site for the Tartu phenomenology meets semiotics workshops in 2009] 167
4. The Schopenhauer Experience [existentialist electronica] 136

Combined these four blogs/webpages had 5% returning visitors - Utopian Realism had the highest percentage, with 7,8% (307 out of 3.919), while Utopisk Realisme had 3,6% returning visitors (279 out of 7.788). Whereas the numbers of this blog thus represented more than half of all returning visitors, almost 2/3 of all visitors at large visited my Norwegian language political blog, and about 1/3 this blog.

Webstats, all-time (pageloads as of today, January 3rd 2013)

1. Utopisk Realisme 45.174
2. Utopian Realism 20.230
3. SemioPhenomenon 3.646
4. The Schopenhauer Experience 878

See also similar post from January 2011. Unfortunately, I did not post on webstats for the year 2011 as a whole (though the math could be done in hindsight as well...), but all numbers indicate that 2011 was the year so far with most hits and reads. This must be understood in light of my blogging frequency: Whereas I wrote 217 posts in Utopian Realism in 2010 and 228 in 2011, for instance, I wrote only 137 posts in 2012  - not due to any lack of activities to report, but rather due to lack of time for blogging about my non-blogging activities, due to a heavy work-load*. Similarly, in Utopisk Realisme I wrote 135 posts in 2009, 117 in 2010 and 134 posts in 2011, but only 60 posts in 2012. Nevertheless, some 200 posts in these two blogs combined is not all that bad, is it?

* I still hope to get to the bottom of my Utopian Realism backlog, in time.

I have a couple of other blogs as well, but do not regularly keep track of their web stats.