Mauri Yambo's Blog Milestones as of April 17, 2018

The last time a set of this Blog's milestones was published was at the end of February 2017. A lot has happened since, and I am pleased to present below a selection of the latest milestones, as recorded at the end of April 16, 2018 and at midday on April 17, 2018. Comparable data for the end of February 2017, January 2017 and December 2016 are shown in brackets below:

1. Published posts (all-time) as of midday, April 17, 2018 = 1,203. [Comparable figures at end-of-Feb '17 = 908; end-of-Jan '17 = 802; end-of-Dec '16 = 741]

2. Drafts + posts back in draft form as of midday, April 17, 2018 = 85. [Comparable figures at end-of-Feb '17 = 50; end-of-Jan '17 = 57; end-of-Dec '16 = 46]. These drafts serve as Post-Nurseries. Neither their number nor their pageview stats are included in the data reported here under items 1, 3, 4, 5 and 6.

3. Pageviews at end-of-day, April 16, 2018 = 1,653. [Comparable figures at end-of-Feb '17 = 2,112; end-of-Jan '17 = 665; end-of-Dec '16 = 417]

4. Pageviews for "the last month" (or last 29 days) as captured at midday, April 17, 2018 = 46,694. [Comparable figures at end-of-Feb '17: 30,913; end-of-Jan '17 = 25,379 corrected; end-of-Dec '16 = 14,944]

5. All-time pageviews as of midday, April 17, 2018 = 700,000. [Comparable figures for end-of-Feb '17 = 436,623; end-of-Jan '17 = 405,710; end-of-Dec '16 = 380,331].

6. The number of all-time pageviews (700,000) and published posts (1,203), shown at item 5 and 1 above, give us a rounded average of 582 all-time pageviews per post to-date.

READ: Blog Milestones at End of June 2016
READ: BLOG POSTS: More Milestones Recorded in October 2015

NOTE: It is not the intention to publish Milestones regularly on a monthly basis, but there will be more releases in the future.

This Blog's Milestones at End of February 2017

Here are some milestones of the Mauri Yambo Blog recorded at the end of February 2017 (Data for January 2017 and December 2016 shown in parenthesis):
1. Published posts (all-time): 908 (Jan '17 = 802; Dec '16 = 741)
2. Drafts + posts back in draft: 50 (Jan '17 = 57; Dec '16 = 46)
3. Pageviews, 28 Feb '17: 2112 (31 Jan '17 = 665; 31 Dec '16=417)
4. Pageviews, all of Feb '17: 30913 (Jan '17 = 25379 corrected; Dec '16 = 14944)
5. All-time pageviews: 436623 (Jan '17 = 405,710; Dec '16 = 380,331).

READ: Blog Milestones at End of June 2016

READ: BLOG POSTS: More Milestones Recorded in October 2015 

NOTE: It is not my intention to publish Milestones regularly on a monthly basis, but there will be more releases in the future.

This Blog's Milestones at End of January 2017

Here are some milestones of the Mauri Yambo Blog recorded at the end of January 2017:
1. Published posts (all-time): 802 (Dec 2016 = 741)
2. Drafts + published posts back in draft: 57 (Dec 2016 = 46)
3. Pageviews on January 31, 2017 alone: 665 (Dec 2016 = 417)
4. Pageviews in all of January 2017: 24,114 (Dec 2016 = 14,944)
5. All-time pageviews: 405,710 (Dec 2016 = 380,331).

READ: Blog Milestones at End of June 2016

READ: BLOG POSTS: More Milestones Recorded in October 2015

This Blog's Milestones at End of December 2016

Here are some milestones of the Mauri Yambo Blog recorded at the end of December 2016:

1. Published posts (all-time): 741
2. Draft posts (plus formerly published posts back in 'draft'): 46
3. Pageviews on December 31, 2016 only: 417
4. Pageviews during December 1-31, 2016: 14,944
5. All-time pageviews: 380,331


READ: Blog Milestones at End of June 2016

READ: BLOG POSTS: More Milestones Recorded in October 2015

Blog Milestones at End of June 2016

Here are some of this blog's milestones at the end of June 2016:
1. Published posts (all-time): 661
2. Draft posts (including previously published posts now back in 'draft' form): 28
3. Pageviews recorded in all of June 2016: 8,583.
4. All-time pageviews: 303,670.

ARCHIVE: Toward a Theory of the Memetic Sphere

ABSTRACT:

Three basic objectives are pursued in this paper. One, to outline a theory of the memetic sphere. Some have called it the ideosphere, but none has dwelt upon the similitudes by means of which it reflects the celestial sphere, which in turn serves as its 'model'. 

Two, to show that an expanding memetic sphere is in actuality the centrifugal afterglow of a now permanent information explosion, which in turn feeds on it. A theory of the memetic sphere is thus a theory of information explosion. 

Three, to demonstrate that the way for individuals and groups to stay afloat  in an information cauldron, which human society has become, is to establish a computer-based network connectivity to transform 'Planet Earth' (otherwise a 'Wide Area') into a symbolic LAN (Local Area Network). This symbolism is, indeed, already ingrained in a popular catch-phrase in cyberspace, which says: "Think globally, act locally". A theory of information explosion consequently evolves into a theory of network connectivity... 

CLICK HERE TO READ THE WHOLE ABSTRACT AND PAPER




PS: A subsequent, shorter, version of this paper was published in Hekima: Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Volume 2 Number 2 of February 2005.

My Recent Blog + Twitter Milestones: February 14, 2016

Happy Valentine's Day 2016 everyone.


I'd like to share these recent blog and Twitter milestones of mine:

February 14, 2016 (6:28 a.m., GMT+3): 5,923 Twitter followers, 44.4k tweets; 604 blog posts, 255,346 all-time pageviews.

February 7, 2016:  Recorded a total of 5,905 Twitter followers and 44.3k tweets.

February 1st, 2016 (late afternoon): Blog hit a landmark of  250k all-time pageviews.

January 31, 2016 (End-of-day): 249,719 tall-time pageviews

January 31, 2016 (End-of-day): 14,829 total pageviews recorded in the entire month of January.

January 10, 2016 (approx 12: 55 a.m., GMT+3): Blog recorded the 240 thousandth all-time pageview.

January 2, 2016: Blog reached 236,000 all-time pageviews before 7:00 a.m.

January 1, 2016: Month started at 234,891st pageview. January 1st logged a total of 1,225 pageviews.

December 31, 2015 (before 6:00 a.m., GMT+3): Blog clocked 234k all-time pageviews.Total pageviews in the month of December: 13,596

December 22, 2015 (approx 6:30 p.m., GMT+3): Blog hit the 230k pageviews mark.

November 30, 2015: Blog ended the month with 221,295 all-time pageviews

November 27, 2015 (pre-dawn): Blog hit the 220k all-time pageviews mark

November 8, 2015 (approx 9:40 a.m., GMT+3): 210k pageviews.

October 24, 2015 (7:30 p.m., GMT+3): Blog recorder the 200,000th pageview.

Milestones in the Evolution of Mass Media, Up to the World Wide Web

Milestones in the Evolution of Mass Media, Up to the Wide World Web

                                      By Prof. Mauri Yambo

In 1999 I first put together, from various sources, a tabular chronology of milestones in the global evolution of mass media. The timeline covers a hugely long period, from c. 1,490,000 BC to the advent of the Internet (AD 1969) and the Wide World Web (AD 1990). In-between those temporal 'boundaries', many amazing things, many inventions, happened in the domain of human communication; sometimes, when we look back now, in slow-motion intervals, and often in relatively quick successions.

[Click on the heading above to see the chronology]

Consider this: Without the Internet, there would have been no World Wide Web. Without both, and without the telephone, there would be no Google or Facebook, no Twitter or YouTube. There would be no email or WhatsApp or Instagram or SMS. There would be no credit card and ATM, and no M-Pesa. There simply would be no life as we have come to know it here on earth.

New evidence, come upon since that 2003 tabulation, suggests that verbal communication, or speech -- made possible by a mutation in the FOXP2 gene, also known as the language gene -- in fact became possible nearly 1.25 million years later than suggested in the table. That's only 250,000 years or so ago!


PS: You can also find the milestones on pp. 21-22 at this link



READ: Jolie O'Dell (2011) "The History of Social Media"








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Twitter Milestones, So Far

The people at Forbes have come up with interesting milestones in Twitter's short life, so far. The chronology and narrative are worth a read. Find it all here> click here.

Twitter, as you know, is a social networking site. Others prefer to see it as a microblogging gateway. I've seen tweets in which people declare Twitter a haiku outlet practically "made in heaven." Certainly, the maximum of 140 digits, punctuation marks and tabs it allows per update does make it look that way. I myself saw the symbiosis early on, and have "updated" (as a blogger I would say "posted") a number of haikus of my own at my Twitter site, which find at: http://twitter.com/MauriYambo.

Tell me what you think: of the site, haikus (generically, mine, others'), Twitter, my (others') tweets, anything really.

Tuonane, eh?