Today was a sunny, clear, calm day in San Francisco. Maybe my memory is faulty, but it feels like we’ve had more of those this year than anytime in the last seven years. For those of us who sit in front of a computer as part of a job (in addition to hobbies like this one), good weather on a weekend feels like a hall pass.
What’s more interesting is seeing the drop in the number of blog posts in NetNewsWire Lite. I know many of our sites at work see less traffic on weekends — corporate connections make all the difference — but I might have expected that blogs, done on personal time (?), would be more stable, in terms of posts and traffic, than commercial web sites, aimed (often enough) at commercial readers. I think my assumption is off. I have not done anything scientific here, checking against Technorati or Weblogs.com or any of the minor/major centers of gravity in the blog world. I’ve often wanted to graph site traffic against weather in different parts of the country (too hard to do it for the world) and see if it moves in concert. Tough with a news site, since news really does drive traffic, but I would still expect a connection. I’m not sure how to act on the hypothesis, even if proved true… except perhaps in gauging inventory for ad serving purposes!? Consider this post a reminder to myself for paying attention to this topic. I know I waited until the sun was down to spend most of my day’s time in front of the computer.