Due to difficulties with physical world scheduling - essentially the fact that I can't be physically in multiple places at once - I'm going to have to skip in-world office hours today, so that my physical body can be elsewhere. Apologies for the inconvenience.
Here is the full ranked table of tracked sites for the week ending Sunday 11 November, 2007:
| Site | Est avg hourly visits | Est avg hourly visits (peak hrs) | Estimated total weekly visits |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Pond | 70 | 42 | 11,772 (stable) |
| Gossip Girl | 56 | 6.29 | 9,408 (new!) |
| IBM | 46 | 60 | 7,764 (up 11.17%) |
| I Am Legend | 37 | 31 | 6,304 (down 4.60%) |
| The L Word | 26 | 32 | 4,524 (stable) |
| Pontiac | 26 | 28 | 4,368 (stable) |
| Greenies Home | 24 | 34 | 4,176 (down 3.87%) |
| Playboy | 23 | 34 | 3,936 (up 19.71%) |
| The Weather Channel | 17 | 18 | 2,988 (up 5.51%) |
| Virtual Holland | 17 | 24 | 2,928 (down 2.79%) |
| Nissan | 15 | 8.57 | 2,604 (up 5.85%) |
| Sun Microsystems | 11 | 13 | 1,932 (down 13.44%) |
| Microsoft | 10 | 9.71 | 1,800 (up 11.11%) |
| ABC Island | 10 | 7.43 | 1,740 (down 2.03%) |
| AOL Pointe | 4.07 | 2.86 | 684 (up 14.00%) |
| STA Travel | 3.57 | 4.29 | 600 (down 19.35%) |
| Cisco Systems | 3.29 | 3.14 | 552 (up 12.20%) |
| Manpower HQ | 2.58 | 2.86 | 434 (down 34.04%) |
| Coldwell Banker | 2.57 | 3.71 | 432 (down 5.26%) |
| NBA | 2.21 | 1.14 | 372 (down 11.43%) |
| Dell | 1.86 | 1.14 | 312 (down 7.14%) |
| Reebok | 1.57 | 2.29 | 264 (stable) |
| Comcast | 0.86 | 0.86 | 144 (up 33.33%) |
| Armani | 0.71 | 0.29 | 120 (down 16.67%) |
The top ten, with commentary is posted to New World Notes.
Methodology
Mixed reality sites in this headcount are selected for their prominence, either from publicity or real world name recognition. Sites with consistent low traffic (500 or less weekly) may be dropped in future Headcounts in favor of other sites. We do not count sites with camping chairs, or visitors in the orientation sims, as there seems to be little evidence to suggest that they will become visitors to the parent site - and if they do, we catch them when we headcount the site anyway.
We collect data four times per day, seven days per week for each site at 2am, 8am, 2pm and 8pm (times in SLT/US Pacific) plus/minus 1 hour (essentially, every 6 hours). For each sample we count the number of people at the site at the time. We average those samples across the week, and then assume that average to hold constant, with each visitor spending a half hour on-site. This methodology does not necessarily include one-time events that generate high traffic missed by our sampling, which we'll make note of whenever possible. Headcounts do not factor in returning visitors, so assume that the total number of unique Residents are likely to be significantly less than the estimated total visits.
It occurs to me that as a child with very, very little social interaction, I missed out on a bunch of things. I never found out that I was supposed to hate broccoli or liver or brussel's sprouts. I found out they were tasty - though sometimes the sprouts were a little bitter.
I never found out that this was supposed to be a man's world, and that women were somehow deficient - or that I should revile people of other cultures, or colours, creeds, politics or religions. So I didn't.
I missed out on all those socializing factors that are supposed to bind me into the basic xenophobic tribal unit. It occurs to me that I don't much think about groups. Not half so much as I think about individuals. The colour of your skin doesn't say anything more about you as a person than who you voted for at the last election or what your shoe size is.
Shoeboxing people is for the lazy and the foolish. To believe that someone looks a certain way or says a certain thing and then to infer everything else about them from that is the worst form of bigoted stereotyping, whether you call them a fascist, a libertarian, a capitalist, a democrat, a republican, a communist or .. hrm ... a few things relating to religion or race that I'd rather not write here. Those labels are all just sloppy thinking to avoid the effort of treating people as individuals. The bad habit of demagoguery.
And it's one we learn at a very early age. We learn it from each-other. All those little absolutes. Then we spend a lifetime trying to get over them if we're lucky enough to even realize that they're there.
None of us are immune. I'm glad my infection as a child was relatively minor. At least I hope it was.
Here is the full ranked table of tracked sites for the week ending Sunday 4 November, 2007:
| Site | Est avg hourly visits | Est avg hourly visits (peak hrs) | Estimated total weekly visits |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Pond | 69 | 38 | 11,664 (up 6.81%) |
| IBM | 41 | 39 | 6,984 (down 3.96%) |
| I Am Legend | 39 | 10 | 6,608 (new!) |
| The L Word | 26 | 30 | 4,500 (down 8.98%) |
| Greenies Home | 25 | 36 | 4,344 (stable) |
| Pontiac | 25 | 33 | 4,296 (down 7.73%) |
| Playboy | 19 | 26 | 3,288 (down 10.75%) |
| Virtual Holland | 17 | 26 | 3,012 (down 17.43%) |
| The Weather Channel | 16 | 18 | 2,832 (down 4.84%) |
| Nissan | 14 | 14 | 2,460 (down 7.24%) |
| Sun Microsystems | 13 | 16 | 2,232 (up 11.38%) |
| ABC Island | 10 | 10 | 1,776 (up 2.07%) |
| Microsoft | 9.64 | 10 | 1,620 (stable) |
| STA Travel | 4.43 | 4.0 | 744 (down 12.68%) |
| Manpower HQ | 3.92 | 4.86 | 658 (up 56.67%) |
| AOL Pointe | 3.57 | 2.29 | 600 (down 5.66%) |
| Cisco Systems | 2.93 | 2.86 | 492 (up 2.50%) |
| Coldwell Banker | 2.71 | 3.43 | 456 (up 5.56%) |
| NBA | 2.5 | 2.0 | 420 (down 16.67%) |
| Dell | 2.0 | 1.71 | 336 (down 20.00%) |
| Reebok | 1.57 | 2.29 | 264 (down 8.33%) |
| Armani | 0.86 | 0.86 | 144 (down 14.29%) |
| Comcast | 0.64 | 1.14 | 108 (up 12.50%) |
The top ten, with commentary is posted to New World Notes.
Methodology
Mixed reality sites in this headcount are selected for their prominence, either from publicity or real world name recognition. Sites with consistent low traffic (500 or less weekly) may be dropped in future Headcounts in favor of other sites. We do not count sites with camping chairs, or visitors in the orientation sims, as there seems to be little evidence to suggest that they will become visitors to the parent site - and if they do, we catch them when we headcount the site anyway.
We collect data four times per day for each site at 2am, 8am, 2pm and 8pm (times in SLT/US Pacific) plus/minus 1 hour. For each sample we count the number of people at the site at the time. We average those samples across the week, and then assume that average to hold constant, with each visitor spending a half hour on-site. This methodology does not necessarily include one-time events that generate high traffic missed by our sampling, which we'll make note of whenever possible. Headcounts do not factor in returning visitors, so assume that the total number of unique Residents are likely to be significantly less than the estimated total visits.
