{"id":1308,"date":"2010-05-07T08:18:41","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T15:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/?p=1308"},"modified":"2010-05-07T08:20:25","modified_gmt":"2010-05-07T15:20:25","slug":"who-are-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/2010\/05\/07\/who-are-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Who are you?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/analytics\/\" target=\"_blank\">Google Analytics<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>You spend an average of 3 minutes on NoiseJockey.net. This suggests you actually listen to the sounds. :-)<\/li>\n<li>60% of you are directed here from other sites; of that, over 20% of you are arriving from <a title=\"Visit Designing Sound!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.designingsound.org\" target=\"_blank\">DesigningSound.org<\/a>.( I thank <em>everyone<\/em> who runs sites in this increasingly vibrant sound recording\/design community who read and support Noise Jockey! You rock!)<\/li>\n<li>60% of you use <a title=\"Visit the official MacOS X website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macosx\/\" target=\"_blank\">MacOS<\/a>, and 35% of you use some flavor of <a title=\"Visit Microsoft's Windows website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windows\/\" target=\"_blank\">Windows<\/a>. I&#8217;m gonna assume the 2% of you who visit Noise Jockey on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/ipod\/\" target=\"_blank\">iPod<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/iphone\/\" target=\"_blank\">iPhone<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/ipad\/\" target=\"_blank\">iPad<\/a> are lamenting Apple&#8217;s refusal to support <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/products\/flash\/\" target=\"_blank\">Flash<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>42% of you use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\/en-US\/firefox\/firefox.html\" target=\"_blank\">Firefox<\/a>, 36% of you use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/safari\/\" target=\"_blank\">Safari<\/a>, and and less than 7% of you use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windows\/Internet-explorer\/\" target=\"_blank\">Internet Explorer<\/a>. There&#8217;s a word for that: Progress.<\/li>\n<li>Almost half of you use laptops to view this site, but at least a quarter of you have big-ass monitors, too.<\/li>\n<li>Noise Jockey&#8217;s visitors are quite international. A hearty &#8220;<em>merci beaucoup<\/em>&#8221; goes out to the 10% of you that <em>parlez Fran\u00c3\u00a7ais<\/em>, possibly visiting from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sounddesigners.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">SoundDesigners.org<\/a>. (A personal thanks to Benoit is appropriate here, and apologies for not having taken French since middle school!)<\/li>\n<li>You made <a href=\"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/20\/whining-flashguns\/\" target=\"_blank\">post that you found most annoying<\/a> also the most-viewed\/heard. (Thanks to David Hobby at Strobist.com for the pick-up).<\/li>\n<li>You <a href=\"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/2010\/04\/05\/fun-with-bikes\/#comments\" target=\"_blank\">commented<\/a> the most on the <a href=\"https:\/\/noisejockey.net\/blog\/2010\/04\/05\/fun-with-bikes\/\" target=\"_blank\">first video<\/a> I released. More to come&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Numbers only tell so much. How many of you are female vs. male? How many of you are professionals vs. hobbyists? What else do you do for fun? That&#8217;s what&#8217;s most meaningful, and the statistics above only paint part of the picture.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to share more, do so in the comments below. But more importantly, visit each other&#8217;s sites and blogs. Join an online sound community. (Some of my favorite blogs and communities are listed in the &#8220;Aural Linkage&#8221; sidebar.) Record something and start your own blog!<\/p>\n<p>Or, at the very least, just listen. To where you are, every day. 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