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Why did you arrive at my site?

heuristic

Can you help me out? - yes you, keep reading.

Can you mention below why you arrived at my site, not so much as in how (I can tell that from logs) but why you actually came?

Things such as "title in google", "someone told me about this site", "randomly", "I enjoy reading about the things you research" etc, you get the idea right?

Thanks a lot for you help, won't take but a few seconds to tell me why as a comment (plus you get link love from here)

Appreciate it.

Comments

you told me to do it

I came to your site because you posted the link on twitter, I followed the link as it was not obvious to me what I would find from the description. Also your previous tweet had mentioned pop shop which I was singing the theme tune to in my head at the time, this may have been a contributory factor.

Pop Shop

I find that link really interesting actually, the pop shop thing, kind of like an association so you may have been triggered into action, there be gold here with that line of thought.

Well I met you on Twitter

Well I met you on Twitter Don Christopher and all this Social Mafia intrigued me so I followed your links to find out more. Have enjoyed am enjoying and have much fascinating and interesting stuff to go back in your blogs history to find and will always be coming back for more.
Plus you are a really lovely interesting person and I'd hope to call you friend ;o)

Friends

Oh that is a very kind thing to say, really, appreciate that, seem there is engagement here based on passed experience?

Yes, let's be friends too :))

Interrogating motivation

I thought you were whinging about something in your Twitter, so I came to see. So why, because I know you and I am interested in what you are on about!

If I go further, what was I doing on Twitter at 10.15 on a soft, English day? Dawdling. Relaxing. Mulling over my reactions to things. Tidyin up my emotional traces.

Being willing to be distracted, amused and entertained. Hoping for grand solutions that will inspire and mobilize. Looking for a beating drum marking a parade I want to join.

Considering (because that is what I have been writing about recently), considering what we do about the cacophony and confusion that comes with a recession. Do we we take out a drum and beat it hoping to provide the parade we yearn for. Do we put our drum away for fear we look silly tapping away while everyone else is distracted by the mayhem.

I suppose we select a corner, observe, and tap away perfecting a rhythm. So then I am looking for people who are doing the same, not so much to make a marching band but to listen to you while I am resting from my own efforts.

"Conduct your blooming in the noise and whip of the whirlwind." Gwendolyn Brooks

Metric

Delicious thoughts for a Sunday morning, appreciate it.

There is attachment here of sorts, or engagement, maybe both, this leads to invaluable data for deriving part of a larger metric model - essentially what is the key driver for you or anyone coming here, and is that being met?

Thanks a ton, Jo.

I found you on Twitter

You posted the link on Twitter and asked for help, being the lovely person I am I wanted to help you.
And thus, this post is written.

The Driver

That's generous of you, but why this time, surely you visit lots of links and perhaps leave no digital footprint, what drove you this time, my words, the colour?

The very nature of the Internet itself

Put simply: runningmanradio.com (subscribe) => twitter/audio (following) => chrishambly.com (keep looking; for "open education" et al) & (eventually) audiocourses.com.

Stories

I love this route for it tells a story, a path, a road which offers paths and unfolds, and you are correct it is an explicit example of the Internet.

Why?

I always support the Brits! :)

All the best buddy. Love Marlow, BTW!

Cheers, a

Marlow

Thanks man..

What were you doing here?

Why?

Just bouncing through links showing up in some tweets I missed... cheers!

Click

Hey thanks Kim.

Why click it though?

ok so this is part one...

now how do i sell some cars?

cheers mate, merry christmas to you and all the family, see you next year. E

Triangles.

So think in terms of a triangle, this is a third of the puzzle, analysing behaviour, search intent, why they came and segmenting it, and also density of clicks.

"What is their intent?"

More to follow on the 2 other parts.

Saw your tweet, was

Saw your tweet, was intrigued, clicked through and voila! here I am!

Link Follow

That's great but WHY did you come, do you follow ALL links in twitter, or just mine? - and also why did you leave a comment when you got here?

Would you mind expanding?

I don't generally click all

I don't generally click all links in Twitter and I don't necessarily click all of the links you tweet. I happened to have a bit of time (ie. I'm procrastinating) so I thought it would be nice to comment and attempt to answer your question.

Hope that helps!

Help

Yes, it really does help a great deal, thanks a lot.

comments

You posted your link in a comment on another blog, and I clicked on it.

Why?

But why leave a comment, any idea what compelled you?

Catching up

Saw a tweet you sent in reply to a question from hedgewytch and being the nosey sort decided to check this out as I thought it may link to some video tutorials - I just wanted to see what they'd be like/ about knowing that you be a muso type 'n' all..

Rock

Well, good to see you over here.

:)

I was reading a NewsGang

I was reading a NewsGang post and there was a link to this blog and I was curious:

http://newsgang.net/item/id=75301&from=twitter

Cheers!

welcome

Right on, welcome.

Twitter Profiles

We were exchanging comments about Moodle through Twitter. Probably came when I initially started following you, but was unclear about some details.
Interesting approach to integrating different elements of your social media presence.

new

Ah well you know, been on this internet bizz since mid-90s, not so much is new ;)

The 'Net, 16 Years Later

Pretty much the same thing for me. Got online in August '93 and been applying the same general principles since then. There have been several phases in the development of the 'Net (and the Web was a big part of that) but, fundamentally, things haven't changed much.

SL Audio Zenith

No wandering or random clicking here I was just googling Audio Zenith and landing here I can see there is a lot of research yet to do.
You are a very busy person.
:)

Breadcrumbs

Ah, you found the breadcrumbs I left eh?

Good to see you here.

No more toast

You posted something on Steve Mansour's blog about two years ago. As I'm about two years behind, I just saw it. I had no idea what you were talking about so I followed the link back here. Now I know.

Hi

Thanks for popping over..

uber minimalist buisness

uber minimalist buisness card on google images (Y)

Rock on

Loving that too

Just surfing laterally

Heh: http://twitter.com/audio/status/1360867458. Ok...

It all starts with with a rather silly idea: hosting the Olympics, which my hometown has inexplicably decided it wants to do.

This leads to terrorism fears, which leads to (among other foolishness) a PR campaign telling citizens to narc on each other for taking photos. That irritates EFF-sympathizing twitterers into planning acts of civil disobedience via sousveillance. In support of the ad hoc ergo pre hoc (sic) organizing of a mass-action Web2.0 response, I was on a surf to find the "best" way for people to geotag and map photos in a distributed fashion. That quickly ran up against the third-party authentication wall and raised questions of exactly where we are with OpenID implementation... and a Twply fork. (Now I think about it, I haven't hit a search engine in hours.)

A twply post had a broken deep-link to your site and that's when I hit the tagwall on your front page and thought "well, THAT's a hell of a way to greet a guest". Straight: That's a new one on me. I took a look around anyway and decided that (1) you're one smart dude I should really be reading on a regular basis, and (2) I may copy the tagwall (sorry).

So... uh... yeah. Pretty helpful story, eh?

[Update: Apparently there was an accident. http://twitter.com/audio/statuses/1365684309 I have a new appreciation for using cross-tab surfing with a large cache.]

Hello

Arrived via a message to linked in's social media mafia group. Who can resist following up on a man whi calls himself the godfather?

linkedin

Well thanks for stopping by Mark, come back soon.

Answering the question

Was reminding myself about what you do and the SMM connection. Was just watching a Twitter exchange between you and Joanne Jaccobs (follow you both) and that triggered the enquiry.

priceless

Thank you David, and were you reminded, is it obvious, or am I still a bit vague? - I have been known to be.

Thanks for stopping by and answering too, priceless.

Why?

I'm interested in Blip.FM, and was referred to your review via Neville Hobson.

From my limited usage to date, I agree with you: I can't see the point of being a DJ, or (really) of listening to other DJs. Not sure that there's enough space for Blip.FM and Last.FM to live side by side.

Swing

Thanks for swinging on by :)

paths we follow

Hi Followed a retweet from mollybob, she posted an interesting question an you posted a reply, no one else did.

Rasta

Interesting name, you have a Rasta?

No I dont have a Rasta,

No I dont have a Rasta, would you believe I am bald and white, deep inside i am Rasta man trucken through life, with a broad jamaican accent, chillen and grooven (in my dreams).

The circumstances

I have been here many times before, and I will be here many times again.

You?

I see, well thanks, and who are you?

Twitter -> Juel -> golden

Twitter -> Juel -> golden pants -> here I am

Golden Pants

Well hello, Virgina, you like my pants?

Golden Pants

I think I'm more impressed by the shoes actually...

Rock

Boots, they are boots ;)

Even better! ;-)

Even better! ;-)

Boots

And yours, where do I see yours?

Boots

haha
oh, I'm sorry... I don't have zebra boots ;-)

RT'ed by AdamParker. Adam

RT'ed by AdamParker.

Adam only ever RT's something worthy of reading, so I took a look, got to you, got to here.
I am now inspired to go do something useful.

But I'm ridiculously hungover.

:-)

intuition

You are following me on twitter, so I popped round to see who this fascinating guy might be and what would WE have in common...then you had these nifty pics and even a drawing and lots of humor AND some bits on this and that like MacArthur Series 's and it looked like you might be lively....and even smart and much much more... maybe even fun... so I am going to follow you right back...

Thanks for commenting

Just catching up, neat, thanks for commenting here!

You have the same name as

You have the same name as me...

Curiosity bought me here

Hi Chris,

I saw your profile via linkedin and was interested to know about the social media mafia, click a few links found this site and couldn't resist leaving a comment.

Thanks

Excellent James, good to see you here.

Better, late than never... I

Better, late than never...
I check in from time to time because... you helped me out once which makes you one of the good guys, it's always interesting and fun to read, plus I'm afraid of waking up with a horses head in my bed.
x :)

Classical Guitar

Lovely to see you here again, yes we should have some fun and games with Google again one day.

Take care
x

Why Monkeys attack

nice headline eh? now that I have your attention it's simple... you tweeted the link to this page. I value what you have to say because you're one of the few people that have an actual opinion on things. Here I am.

monkies

Very good to see you here Geoff.. and yes, a cracking headline!

Bit of random one - I'm a

Bit of random one - I'm a medical student doing a project on kidney stones and came across your post "Kidney Stones FKN Hurt"! Then got distracted from working on my presentation!

actually I have no idea how

actually I have no idea how I originally fell on your site. Probably stumble upon or some other social time waster - although I stuck with this site!

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