Just to remind you: I have two divisions in my blogging “empire”: the Floating Life series, which includes the only ones still active – this and the photo blog; the English/ESL blog, which is no longer maintained or added to – except for the occasional comment or minor revision. Hence two site meters.
English/ESL
Floating Life
You’ll see that English/ESL is surviving despite being neglected. Floating Life has pulled back though after a dive last month.
This blog averaged 113 views a day in March, according to WordPress, up on 105 in February. The photoblog managed 21 a day, down on last month’s 26 and the lowest since December 2010. The lowest ever was 11 per month in November 2010. The Ninglun’s Specials archive, which includes a lot of family history, averaged 41 a day, up on 37 in February and 29 in January.
In the last quarter the top posts on Ninglun’s Specials have been:
- Family stories 1 — mother 383 views in January, February and March 2012
- Family stories 3 — About the Whitfields: from convict days 283
- 05 — Old Blog Entries: 99-04 182
- Family stories 4 — A Guringai Family Story — Warren Whitfield 128
- Sights of old Sydney 4: Cleveland House, Surry Hills 126
- About 125
- Top poems 2: John Donne (1572-1631): Satire III — “Of Religion” 97
- Surry Hills 95
- Chinatown 13: Chinese Gardens Darling Harbour 8 91
- 10. But is it art? Responses to the Bill Henson controversy of 2008 88
English/ESL
Averaged 459 views a day in March! That compares with 400 in February and 210 in January.
In the last quarter the top posts were:
- How should I write up a Science experiment? 7,851
- A student’s “Belonging Essay” workshopped 3,701
- What tense should I use when I write about literature? 2,656
- Home page 2,038
- Essay writing: Module C “Conflicting Perspectives” – the introduction 1,573
- Is “majority” singular or plural? 1,493
- Mary Shelley, “Frankenstein” — and “Blade Runner” 1,328
- The "Belonging" Essay 1,099
- Physical journeys and Peter Skrzynecki’s poems 1,022
- Belonging pages: HSC 2009-2012 918
- How can I write faster in exams? 653
- Scaffolding 641
- How can I write better short stories? 617
- Workshop 02 — NSW HSC: Area Study: Imaginative Journeys 584
- Improving handwriting 413
- How can I improve my essay grades, especially in exams, without learning “model essays” off by heart? 340
- Looking at a visual text 298
- Good question: are fractions and decimals singular or plural? 296
- From my personal site: The Secret River by Kate Grenville 271
- Workshop 03 — Creative Writing (Year 12) 243
Who’d have thought my work at Sydney Boys High in my last few years there to 2005 – because that is what most of this is — would linger for so long!
