KnoxViews: "not particularly hip or cool"

Submitted by R. Neal on Tue, 2006/09/12 - 10:05am

Heh. Indeed. Jack Lail, head of the Knoxville News Sentinel's online operations, has some interesting (and somewhat flattering for KnoxViews participants despite the amusing headline above) commentary on the recent KnoxViews reader survey.

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400K page views per month?

Submitted by Eleanor A on Tue, 2006/09/12 - 10:17am.

400K page views per month? Wow.

SKB's

Submitted by gttim on Tue, 2006/09/12 - 3:33pm.

How do the page views compare to SKB's? I seem to think that traffic was higher there.

Actually, visits are higher

Submitted by R. Neal on Tue, 2006/09/12 - 3:39pm.

Actually, visits are higher than they were at SKB (2500/day v. 1500-1800/day). Don't remember the page views, but I think it averaged about 2.5 per visit. There seem to be more page views per visit here (like 4.5 or so) for some reason.

(All of these statistics are suspect if you ask me. You can run three different log analyzers and get three different answers, and something completely different from SiteMeter.)

Andy, I think I'm doubly

Submitted by redmondkr on Tue, 2006/09/12 - 6:45pm.

Andy, I think I'm doubly damned, cool-wise, since neither of my iPods (70 GB total) has anything in the hip-hop genre. That's a clue if there ever was one. There's an awful lot of Beethoven and Mozart in there, too.

"There seem to be more page

Submitted by Les Jones on Wed, 2006/09/13 - 10:45am.

"There seem to be more page views per visit here (like 4.5 or so) for some reason."

I think it's the thing on the front page that shows new comments to existing threads. I check it every time I visit for threads I'm following. It's the coolest feature in Drupal.

Hey, Les, why don't we just call each other assholes and get it over with. - Somebody on the old Southknoxbubba.net (if that was you, claim your quote and win net.fame!)

Les has a valid point.I

Submitted by redmondkr on Wed, 2006/09/13 - 3:37pm.

Les has a valid point.

I think the fact that we repeatedly return to or refresh the home page for those updates may be tilting your statistics somewhat. And, yeah, that is a great feature.

But knoxviews’ writers

Submitted by Andy Axel on Tue, 2006/09/12 - 10:22am.

But knoxviews’ writers don’t delve much in entertainment, trends, lifestyles.

MORE INFOTAINMENT, DAMMIT!

(Truth be told, though, I do delve, and prodigiously so. I simply don't share much, since I'm rather more interested in esoteric or less commercial art forms. And honestly, you can get Baby Suri chatter almost anywhere, but there's only one place to come to discuss the stuff that really matters -- like cockfighting!)

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"Not particularly hip or

Submitted by F-Stop on Tue, 2006/09/12 - 10:39am.

"Not particularly hip or cool"

Yeah, but you're not going to find more comprehensive cockfighting coverage anywhere else.

What about the April 1

Submitted by Justin on Tue, 2006/09/12 - 11:00am.

What about the April 1 rodeo? :)

It is probably safe to say

Submitted by redmondkr on Tue, 2006/09/12 - 11:05am.

It is probably safe to say that not one (registered) poster at KnoxViews keyboards with one hand while holding his/her pants up with the other.

Sadly, that seems to be one of today's definitions of cool.

Redmondkr said:It is

Submitted by WhitesCreek on Tue, 2006/09/12 - 11:16am.

Redmondkr said:

It is probably safe to say that not one (registered) poster at KnoxViews keyboards with one hand while holding his/her pants up with the other.

Are you saying we don't wear pants when we blog? I mean...how'd you know?

And more than that...What gives you the right to go tellin'?

Dang!

We have ways of knowing

Submitted by redmondkr on Tue, 2006/09/12 - 11:31am.

We have ways of knowing these things.

Remember when Redd Foxx said there was nothing uglier than a ninety-year-old white woman? Well, I am proof that a fat, nekkid, sixty-year-old white guy is no eye candy either.

I admit that I sometimes "work" somewhat less that formally attired. On occasion, I am also obliged to work one-handed while petting two Rottweilers - if a dog appears on the nearby telly.

I'll have another donut with that coffee.

That's right

Submitted by Brian A. on Tue, 2006/09/12 - 11:48am.

But knoxviews’ writers don’t delve much in entertainment, trends, lifestyles.

Someone better step up with some Suri TomKat blogging or I'm walking . . . .

Brian A.
I'd rather be cycling.

I can't of anything hipper

Submitted by Factchecker on Tue, 2006/09/12 - 12:43pm.

I can't of anything hipper or cooler than the Thursday Style section of KNS. That and lots of stories that feature this kind of hip or cool!! To paraphrase the pReZ, I can't think of anything cooler and hipper than that. And "hip or cool" is all that matters anyway, right?