Day 20 Question

(Today’s question comes from reader Stephen J. Barr, who won the “Free! Offer! From Human Census” by being the first to answer yesterday’s question.)

If, for one year, you had to relocate to a place where they do not speak your native language, where would you go and why?

Report on Day 19

Question: What do you really care about? Which concepts and causes are important in your world?
Participation: 114 site views (our 2nd best day ever!)
Responses: 6
Notable Answers (I’m changing this section slightly; it has felt awkward for some reason).
Snippets:

Stephen: “Wow, that picture makes one reconsider their answer.”

(By the way, you can see more awesome photos by the photographer here.)

Enny: “It was an amazing moment of clarity when I realised that meat was actually animal, and another not long after where I realised that my desire for a mars bar was not greater than animals right to a life free of suffering.”

Jon: “As far as causes . . . I focus on developing lasting, meaningful relationships. We’re all in this together.”

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You May Not Know What Really Matters (kind of a simple article, but I really like it.)
Change.org (an awesome site for connecting with others interested in the same causes you care about)

Get Human Census Updates From Your iGoogle Home Page

Thanks to a suggestion from my friend Nick Disney, I added a “Google Gadget” which you can click on in order to add Human Census to your iGoogle page.

(iGoogle is basically a “customized Google home page”, where you can search Google for stuff, but also access your gmail, calendar, news sites, blogs, recipes, cartoons, or whatever else you want added to it.)

Here’s the link to our Human Census iGoogle gadget:

It’s also permanently on the right sidebar of this site. Enjoy!

Day 19 Question

Photo credit: Flickr Creative Commons, by TedGuy49

What do you really care about?

What causes or concepts are important in your world?

Report on Day 18

Question: “What do you do when you’re bored?”

Participation: 67 site views

Responses: 11

Notable Answers:

Michael: “I’m only bored at the day-job, and I fill that time by coming up with new ways to look busy, the challenge is finding ways to at least look like i am ‘not-bored’.”

FoxyDot: “Read my RSS feeds and end up here (www.humancensus.com.”

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33-ish Things Our Readers Do To Fight Boredom

1. Check email
2. Work on the blogs
3. Draw odd cartoons
4. Go longboarding, go in the evening and take an iPod with you
5. Draw gazillions of stars
6. Come up with new ways to look busy
7. Read blogs
8. Sort emails
9. Do frivolous web searches
10. Drool and/or eat
11. Start new projects, blogs, businesses
12. Bake
13. Come up with new recipes
14. Get working on a new project
15. Go outside and enjoy
16. Read my RSS feeds and end up here (humancensus.com)
17. Catch up on chatting with old friends., give them a call or write a lettter
18. Check facebook and digg
19. Go for a walk
20. Work out
21. Cook
22. Clean
23. Call friends and plan something
24. DDR (Dance Dance Revolution)
25. Explore Seattle
26. Read
27. Swim
28. Bike ride
29. Hike
30. Write
31. Read
32. Watch TV
33. Ring friends

Other Sites That May Give You Ideas

474 Things To Do When You’re Bored
Fun Things To Do When Severly Bored
Watch All 365 Episodes of the Ze Frank Show (not for the faint of heart;) )
Dress Like 12 Kinds of Animals
Site That’s Boring
A Sweet “Bored In Class” Prank

Our First 1000 Site Views!

So, today we just hit our first 1000 site views. Nice– thanks everyone!

Here are the stats from the first 18 days of the project:

Total Views: 1,000
Best Day Ever: 134
Views today: 67
Posts: 41
Comments: 142
Tags: 9

So basically, it has taken us 18 days to get 1,000 site views, 142 comments, and more or less 20 active commentors.

I’ve been researching viral marketing techniques. And I’m curious:

• What would it take us in order to get the same amount of views (1,000) and comments (142) in only 1/2 the time (9 days)?

• Or, what would it take us in order to get twice the views (2,000) and comments (284) in the same amount of time (18 days)?

This is my new goal for the project: to either hit 1,000 views in 9 days, or 2,000 in 18 days– whichever comes first.

Any ideas?

New Page: Questions We’ve Asked & Answered

Here’s the complete list of the questions we’ve asked, through Day18. I’ll update it once a week or so.

Questions We’ve Asked & Answered

Day 18 Question

What do you do when you get bored?

Report on Day 17

Question: “ Are you going to Harry Potter 5? Do you like the movies or books better?”

Participation: 54 site views

Responses: 9

Notable Answers:

I think it’s notable that most answers were mixed or indifferent:

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Links

Harry Potter 5 on IMDB
Movie Trailer
Harry Potter 5 on Rotten Tomatoes
Wikipedia page for Harry Potter 5 (119 references–many Wikipedia articles have <10!)
Muggle’s Guide to HP5

Random Info

(from Wikipedia)

• The German translation of this book is 151 pages longer than the English version.
• The book was published June 21, 2003 in the UK and the majority of other countries. It sold almost seven million copies in the UK and United States combined on that day.
• The film budget was between 150-200 million. (They could have bought a Dreamliner instead! )
• Filming the movie started in Feb 2006 and ended in Nov/Dec 2006.
• The movie is 138 minutes.

Day 17 Question

Are you going to Harry Potter 5? Do you like the movies or books better?