Hi All,
News Team Report for June 2007.
Our Highest read article for June: http://news.squeak.org/2007/06/10/ubuntu-founder-mark-shuttleworth-talks-abo ut-croquet/ had over 1000 readers
Our article: http://news.squeak.org/2007/05/17/minding-your-business-with-smalltalk-part- 3-of-4/ has reached a total of 2700 readers and is still in our top ten articles.
Something that is notable is that we had hits on over 100 articles last month. About 20 were only hit once, but about 40 were hit at least 20 times and 20 were hit more then 50 times.
We are getting about 250 hits a day. Our best day in June was 531 readers.
We were listed in the list of top blog posts on wordpress a few times.
We really could use some new members. If you have an interest in writing articles for weeklysqueak please contact me.
Thanks,
Ron Teitelbaum Squeak News Team Leader
Hi Ron, indirect item for you: Scratch got a mention on the BBC's "Click" programme this week, no mention of it being based on Squeak/ST though :-(
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/6250544.stm
Oh, I now see gcorriga beat me to it :-)
On 7/3/07, Derek O'Connell doconnel@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Ron, indirect item for you: Scratch got a mention on the BBC's "Click" programme this week, no mention of it being based on Squeak/ST though :-(
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/6250544.stm
We were listed in the list of top blog posts on wordpress a few times. We really could use some new members. If you have an interest in writing articles for weeklysqueak please contact me.
Mailing back to the list in general to ask: What sort of articles? Do you have some broad, general guidelines for material you'd like to see? The two you mentioned in your e-mail seem to be an interview and a...well, sort of another interview(s).
Il giorno mar, 03/07/2007 alle 15.03 -0700, Blake ha scritto:
We were listed in the list of top blog posts on wordpress a few times. We really could use some new members. If you have an interest in writing articles for weeklysqueak please contact me.
Mailing back to the list in general to ask: What sort of articles? Do you have some broad, general guidelines for material you'd like to see? The two you mentioned in your e-mail seem to be an interview and a...well, sort of another interview(s).
Blake, what kind of articles are you interested in?
Giovanni
On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 15:38:44 -0700, Giovanni Corriga giovanni@corriga.net wrote:
Blake, what kind of articles are you interested in?
Am I the target audience? I actually don't have a good answer for that question, believe it or not. I'm sort of focussed on little picture stuff in Squeak at the moment. (Not that there's anything wrong with "little picture" articles, mind you.) So, I dunno. Certainly I can pitch ideas but that's the easy part.<s>
===Blake===
Hi Blake,
Well what happened is this. I used to try to summarize what was on squeak-dev with little articles that really didn't say very much and mostly pointed you to interesting threads. I received some comments that the longer articles were more interesting. So I started posting some pointers and opinions, some tutorials, interviews, and updates from around the Smalltalk world. The problem was the larger articles took much longer to produce. I still have a number of articles that I'm working on, including two people still waiting to be interviewed (thank you for being patient).
So although I agree that the longer substantive articles are better I think last months virtually no articles was really sad. I was really getting into this Squeak being noticed thing. I think the PR is really good for the community. It's clear that Giovanni and I can't do it all.
So once again I would love to hear from everyone, what would you like to see on WeeklySqueak and ask people to PLEASE volunteer for the news team!!
Ron Teitelbaum Squeak News Team Leader (pro tem)
-----Original Message----- From: Blake [mailto:blake@kingdomrpg.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 6:04 PM To: Ron@usmedrec.com; The general-purpose Squeak developers list Subject: Re: News Team Monthly Report for June 2007
We were listed in the list of top blog posts on wordpress a few times. We really could use some new members. If you have an interest in
writing
articles for weeklysqueak please contact me.
Mailing back to the list in general to ask: What sort of articles? Do you have some broad, general guidelines for material you'd like to see? The two you mentioned in your e-mail seem to be an interview and a...well, sort of another interview(s).
squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org
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