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Nate Hagens on February 27, 2007 - 1:11am

Thanks to all involved. Its a pleasure to share ideas and purpose with you all. Special thanks to Super G and Prof G whos tireless work behind the scenes provides the platform for the rest of us.

Question:

people average 7 minutes on each visits here, which is unheard of in the 'sphere'

Huh? To read an average post on TOD must take 10-15 minutes (especially mine!) Does this mean that people usually skim? Or that the median visit is different than the mean? (lots of people come to look at the pictures and quickly leave?) I never knew that stat. Says alot about peoples attention spans or our busy lives or both.

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Prof. Goose on February 27, 2007 - 1:22am

thanks. *blush*

at most sites the time that people stay there and read is MUCH shorter...there's no distribution for the stat, so I imagine that it is pretty skewed...

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ThatsItImout on February 27, 2007 - 1:48am

I'm with you Nate, I can never get loose from here in 7 minutes, but there is another factor....I read Drumroll in pieces because I chase out the links, then come back, and chase out the next interesting one, so it cuts my visits into much smaller looking chips than they actually are...:-)

But congrats to TOD for opening up a whole new area that didn't formerly even exist on the web, and connecting us all to a wide ranging variety of ideas, thoughts, concepts, and sources...I accidently backed into TOD while doing research for a paper in a continuing education class at a Community College, and it may be the one of the best things I got out of the class!
It's been and continues to be great fun, and a continuing education class of it's own! :-)

Oh, to your other observation, "To read an average post on TOD must take 10-15 minutes (especially mine!) "

Hey, I resemble that remark! My rule on that subject...."If you want brevity, read a bumper sticker!" :-)

Roger Conner Jr
Remember, we are only one cubic mile from freedom

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hummingbird on February 27, 2007 - 7:56am

I don't know what it means. I can never get off in 7 minutes. Half an hour if I rush--and then I come back later. Yes, TOD is much improved in recent days. More like its old self.

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Carbon waste Life form on February 27, 2007 - 8:33am

I'm on this website for about an hour a day, sometimes two hours if I want to read a thread completely. Usually I don't say anything, I don't want to worsen to the signal/noise ratio.
I expect there are a lot of people like me here. You usually only have to wait a bit before somebody makes the point you were thinking of making, and better!

Carbon - UK

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