web tracking

Pretty cool, right? That's my newly-installed webpage tracking on my blog. Readers, now I know who you are, haha. Today, one from China and one from East Coast (I thought that my site is blocked in China). Maybe more though, as I still do not know how to read the report.

Well, I actually have no interest to see the stats on my blog. I do not really care who is reading and who is not. The real thing is that I need to learn webtracking skills for my internship, and my blog is the only site that I manage right now. (Well, let me take it back. I actually care about my readership, as I feel that is a great way that my friends and strangers know my life. However, I have no intension to change my way of writing just because of my blog traffic). Anyway, I think I need to let you know that I am tracking it. But you probably do not care anyway.

You may ask, why learning webtracking? Well, much is business secret and since I signed a confidential agreement, I do not think I can say too much. What I can say is that we are going to launch an advertisement campaign for some sort of online competition, and I am in charge of managing the whole campaign, especially buying ads from Google's Adwords. So I need to know how to track the clicks from the ads.

That's the perk of working in a start-up. Just think that I have only worked there on and off for 40 hours, and now I can be in charge of a project. Calling shots in a company. Isn't that cool? As I was interning in this start-up company, all of a sudden I found out that I really loved technology. Here, everything has, or will have, a technical solution. Among solutions, there are good ones and bad ones. It is very different from sociology, where everything is messy and sometimes politically charged and your intelligence sometimes is not respected simply because you will in a different sub-field. Well, I have a phone interview with a big-name company for a permenant position..... Well, you can see that I am steering away from sociology, even though I have two (actually three) single-authored paper for submission this month or next.

Betalian is as crazy as before. She will demand all kinds of statistical tests. Some of them are just trash, but she won't listen. I then just learn new things and log in hours. Not bad for me either. Do you know cluster analysis, contingency analysis, multidimentional something (I forget the name)? Now I do, thanks to Betalian for these stupid learnings. Now she is out for vacation, so my email box can be quiet for a while.

What else? Nothing too much. Well, I am also learning HTML code when I milk my time during the internship. I feel 10 or 20 years down the road, I might have my own business, and that is a good way to prepare.