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incredulousTopic: independent media
As SAM here kicks on into the new year, forerunner Sydney Indy Media remains off air over a month now. We also notice our reader stats have kicked up a little.
We don't publish for high reader numbers. Rather we seek the indefinable core 'beltway' AAA demographic. (Beltway meaning vested interest lobby in big media, politics, business. AAA refers to the well paid, educated mob thought to support the ABC.) Whether we get that readership is hard to know. Certainly this clunky format has poor engagement with little or no comments.
In any case our reader stats are on an encouraging upswing of some 10 times gradual increase from our first month 3 years back. Also on a personal note the editor here is no. 1 globally google name search, ahead of namesake ritzy resort owner, US financiers and schlock hollywood director. This effect is not so useful for job applications but possibly does measure some kind of social capital.
Here is the general backgrounder, we used to publish every month but got a bit lazy: We might move to quarterly at this rate:
Previous monthly reader pageview figures for 2007, 2008 verified by screen shot (web host provider monthly pageview account details) checked and posted on or about 4th day of the month found in this thread:
- December 2009 - 31,335
- September 2009 - 19,132
- August 2009 - 22,072 (host metric, not screenshot)
- July 2009 - 18,293 (host metric, not screenshot)
- June 2009 - 29,165 (host metric, not screenshot)
- May 2009 - 32,125 (host metrics, not screenshot)
- April 2009 - 23,421 (host metrics, not screenshot)
- March 2009 - 34,255
- February 2009 - 23,208
- January 2009 - 27,462
- December 08 - 21,858
- November 08 - unavailable, host breakdown
- October 08 - 20,343
- September 08 - 20,746
- August 08 - 25,344
- July 08 - 22,855
- June 08 - 27,440
- May 08 - 25,046
- April 08 - 19,250
- March 08 - 20,803
- February 08 - 13,109
- January 2008 - 19, 898
- December - 11,627
- November - 10,220
- October - 9, 100
- Sept - 8,100 roughly, no screenshot
- August - 8,845
- July - 7475
- June - 9675
- May - 9, 059
- April - 12,087
- March - 6,684
- February - 5,372
- January 07 - 2800 (3rd Jan - 3rd Feb 07)
