Alex Chapin wrote a neat tool to analyze stats in our wordpress database and came up with this information. This information will help show us which are the most active blogs and which themes people prefer to use. These are the most popular themes on the blogging server:
| Theme | # of blogs | % of all blogs |
| WordPress mu Default | 95 | 26.2% |
| MistyLook | 56 | 15.5% |
| Tarski | 28 | 7.7% |
| Blue Tarski | 26 | 7.2% |
| Digg 3 Columns | 19 | 5.2% |
| Middlebury | 19 | 5.2% |
| Jammed Blue | 17 | 4.7% |
| Blue Zinfandel Enhanced | 14 | 3.9% |
| Blue Zinfandel Squared Enhanced | 14 | 3.9% |
| Integral | 10 | 2.8% |
| Feather pen | 10 | 2.8% |
| Blue Box | 8 | 2.2% |
| tonus | 8 | 2.2% |
| CommentPress | 6 | 1.7% |
| Oldschool | 5 | 1.4% |
| WashMe Inverted | 4 | 1.1% |
| Note | 4 | 1.1% |
| PhilosophyTheme | 3 | 0.8% |
| WordPress mu Default/home | 3 | 0.8% |
| MiddTube_layout | 2 | 0.6% |
| WordPress Classic | 2 | 0.6% |
| schoolsinsessionA | 2 | 0.6% |
| MiddEarth | 2 | 0.6% |
| Feet | 1 | 0.3% |
| NT-authory | 1 | 0.3% |
| Feng Shui | 1 | 0.3% |
| schoolsinsessionB | 1 | 0.3% |
| Tarski for the Symposium | 1 | 0.3% |
And here are the blogs ranked by number of posts:
| Blog | # of Posts | % of total posts |
| Evolving Forms of Literacy | 362 | 4.19 |
| Circulation Services | 331 | 3.83 |
| Media Technology 2008 | 318 | 3.68 |
| Peer Writing Tutors at Middlebury College | 299 | 3.46 |
| The Language Wars | 289 | 3.34 |
| Middlebury Headlines | 276 | 3.19 |
| Graphic Novel | 267 | 3.09 |
| MIIS@work | 219 | 2.53 |
| A blog @ all things LIS | 214 | 2.48 |
| Presidential Power | 164 | 1.9 |
| Fast Food/Slow Food | 154 | 1.78 |
| William Tell Coleman Library | 138 | 1.6 |
| Office of Student Services | 120 | 1.39 |
| Stories from a Vermont Town | 113 | 1.31 |
| Office of International Services | 107 | 1.24 |
| Watching The Wire | 106 | 1.23 |
| Policy Career Development Newsletter | 105 | 1.21 |
| Jane Austen and Film | 101 | 1.17 |
| MIIS DMC | 98 | 1.13 |
| Geospatial Technology in LIS | 86 | 1 |
| Monterey Institute MAP Peer Mentor Program | 83 | 0.96 |
| Random Roamings | 77 | 0.89 |
| LIS Website Project | 76 | 0.88 |
| Quinde Journey to the Past | 75 | 0.87 |
| LIS Restructuring | 72 | 0.83 |
| Slices of Cake | 71 | 0.82 |
| One Dean�s View | 64 | 0.74 |
| LIS Suggestions | 63 | 0.73 |
| Jane Austen 06 | 63 | 0.73 |
| International Political Economy (Spring 2009) | 60 | 0.69 |
| Beowulf Parallel Computing Cluster | 59 | 0.68 |
| Winning the Race Together at Middlebury | 57 | 0.66 |
| De Middelbury � Poitiers : Le Blog | 56 | 0.65 |
| Computer Science Systems | 56 | 0.65 |
| Brendan Owens Test | 54 | 0.62 |
| Name of the Rose | 54 | 0.62 |
| Theories of Popular Culture | 54 | 0.62 |
| Biomass at Middlebury | 53 | 0.61 |
| Middlebury Web Makeover | 52 | 0.6 |
| Film and Media Culture at Middlebury | 52 | 0.6 |
| Anthroposophy in Art | 49 | 0.57 |
| Web Makeover Docs | 47 | 0.54 |
| Ian’s Web Services | 47 | 0.54 |
| How Did You Get Here? | 47 | 0.54 |
| Global Warming Solutions – the FYSE1239 blog | 46 | 0.53 |
| The Middlebury Trailrunner | 46 | 0.53 |
| kade collaborati | 43 | 0.5 |
| Shweta’s Space | 41 | 0.47 |
| Learning to Write College Papers | 41 | 0.47 |
| Tomorrow is another day | 40 | 0.46 |
| RIDDIM World Dance Troupe | 39 | 0.45 |
| Power Strip | 38 | 0.44 |
| Academic Consulting Services | 38 | 0.44 |
| SGAFC Minutes Blog | 38 | 0.44 |
| The home of the Grille Ghost | 37 | 0.43 |
| Global Justice | 37 | 0.43 |
| One Dean’s View | 37 | 0.43 |
| Sticks and Stones Magazine Submissions | 37 | 0.43 |
| International Law (Spring 2009) | 35 | 0.4 |
| Middlebury College Rugby Club | 35 | 0.4 |
| Middlebury Outdoor Guide | 34 | 0.39 |
| Writing to Heal | 34 | 0.39 |
| Transmedia Storytelling in Television 2.0 | 34 | 0.39 |
| Ron on Middlebury | 33 | 0.38 |
| saijai’s space | 32 | 0.37 |
| Brett’s Class Blog | 32 | 0.37 |
| Digital Media Tutors | 32 | 0.37 |
| Curricular Technology Team | 32 | 0.37 |
| The one best thing that happened today. | 31 | 0.36 |
| angeow | 31 | 0.36 |
| International Political Economy (Fall 09) | 31 | 0.36 |
| Student Symposiums: Resources for Presenters | 30 | 0.35 |
| Staff Book Groups | 30 | 0.35 |
| Disability in a Global Context | 30 | 0.35 |
| meanderings of a hungry mind | 28 | 0.32 |
| Ross’s Retreat | 28 | 0.32 |
| blog, jj, blog. | 28 | 0.32 |
| Emily goes to Middlebury! | 27 | 0.31 |
| geography of islands | 27 | 0.31 |
| Middlebury Christian Fellowship | 26 | 0.3 |
| LIS Advisory Groups | 26 | 0.3 |
| Jared’s Narrative Media Musings | 26 | 0.3 |
| Nick Bestor’s “Narration Across Media” Blogtacular Extravaganza | 25 | 0.29 |
| 19th Century Russian Literature | 25 | 0.29 |
| film and online video | 25 | 0.29 |
| During the life | 24 | 0.28 |
| James Ashley Morrison | 24 | 0.28 |
| Teaching with Technology | 24 | 0.28 |
| A Stonebraker Narrative | 24 | 0.28 |
| Brainerd Commons | 24 | 0.28 |
| Spotlight/Focus on MIIS | 23 | 0.27 |
| James’ Blog | 22 | 0.25 |
| International Order in the 20th Century (Fall 09) | 21 | 0.24 |
| CSO: Career Services Media Archive | 21 | 0.24 |
| The Terra Project | 21 | 0.24 |
| New Media @ MIIS | 21 | 0.24 |
| Macroeconomic Theory | 21 | 0.24 |
| Mehdi Prevot | 20 | 0.23 |
| MiddEarth | 20 | 0.23 |
| Language School Video Contest | 19 | 0.22 |
| THE ECONOMICS COURT JESTER | 19 | 0.22 |
| 431 – Matt Leonard | 19 | 0.22 |
| Narration Across Scott | 19 | 0.22 |
| Vermont Campus Compact | 18 | 0.21 |
| EC265 – ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS | 18 | 0.21 |
| Middle East Studies at Middlebury | 18 | 0.21 |
| Alumni & Parent Programs | 18 | 0.21 |
| Aaron Smith’s Response Journal | 18 | 0.21 |
| Getting to 350: Building Strategies for 21st Century Aspirations | 18 | 0.21 |
| Writing College Papers | 18 | 0.21 |
| On That Note | 18 | 0.21 |
| In the Middle | 17 | 0.2 |
| Duna Tatour | 17 | 0.2 |
| MiddTube | 17 | 0.2 |
| History and Philosophy of Science | 17 | 0.2 |
| Birth of the Cool: American Culture at Mid-Century | 17 | 0.2 |
| Blogging at Middlebury | 17 | 0.2 |
| Ioana’s “Narration Across Media” Blog | 16 | 0.19 |
| MIISpoken | 16 | 0.19 |
| Andrew’s Blog | 15 | 0.17 |
| ES380 – 21st Century Global Challenges | 15 | 0.17 |
| Charlie’s thoughts on Narration Across Media | 15 | 0.17 |
| David Ellis’ Narration Blog | 15 | 0.17 |
| narration across media | 15 | 0.17 |
| Facilities Services | 15 | 0.17 |
| Asmedia | 15 | 0.17 |
| Test Blog | 14 | 0.16 |
| Midd:day | 14 | 0.16 |
| Helena’s Home | 14 | 0.16 |
| Virtual Worlds at Middlebury | 14 | 0.16 |
| Reserves Information | 13 | 0.15 |
| More than The Fourth Estate | 13 | 0.15 |
| Careers in the Common Good | 13 | 0.15 |
| Narration Across Media | 13 | 0.15 |
| The Middlebury Landscape | 13 | 0.15 |
| 51 Main | 13 | 0.15 |
| AcaTechie | 12 | 0.14 |
| Bid Chaos Welcome | 12 | 0.14 |
| Farming in Starksboro Vermont | 12 | 0.14 |
| alexblog | 12 | 0.14 |
| ^~^ | 12 | 0.14 |
| ES SENIOR SEMINAR | 12 | 0.14 |
| Jue’s | 12 | 0.14 |
| Web Communications | 12 | 0.14 |
| Matthew Kimble’s Lab | 12 | 0.14 |
| Middlebury College Women’s Rugby Club | 12 | 0.14 |
| DJCElektropage | 11 | 0.13 |
| A Teachable Movement | 11 | 0.13 |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | 11 | 0.13 |
| Alliance for Civic Engagement | 11 | 0.13 |
| End Beginning and Middle | 11 | 0.13 |
| Middlebury en Guadalajara | 11 | 0.13 |
| Talha’s Roamings | 11 | 0.13 |
| Orientation 2009 | 10 | 0.12 |
| MiddFund | 10 | 0.12 |
| Honor Code Review Discussion Boards | 10 | 0.12 |
| Jason Narrating Across Media | 10 | 0.12 |
| Trees are Nice | 10 | 0.12 |
| Research Blog 09 | 10 | 0.12 |
| SGA Comprehensive Fee Committee | 10 | 0.12 |
| H.Schuerger | 9 | 0.1 |
| blog | 9 | 0.1 |
| Digital Driving | 9 | 0.1 |
| middlebury meta-confessional | 9 | 0.1 |
| A(twater) Log | 9 | 0.1 |
| Shel’s Blog | 9 | 0.1 |
| LIS Project Directory | 9 | 0.1 |
| The Board | 9 | 0.1 |
| What’s Happening in Special Collections | 9 | 0.1 |
| Middlebury College Organic Garden | 9 | 0.1 |
| LIS Forms | 8 | 0.09 |
| Institutional Planning & Diversity | 8 | 0.09 |
| Peter’s world | 8 | 0.09 |
| SporkTV | 8 | 0.09 |
| Stroblpeter’s Abenteuer | 8 | 0.09 |
| Environmental Affairs Information | 8 | 0.09 |
| Career Services Internship Programs | 8 | 0.09 |
| Quincy’s Blog | 8 | 0.09 |
| US-Mexico Relations | 8 | 0.09 |
| New England Review | 8 | 0.09 |
| AccuTrack Administration Notes | 8 | 0.09 |
| A Brief History of Lake Champlain | 8 | 0.09 |
| The Keys to Angels and Demons | 8 | 0.09 |
| Mero Sansar | 7 | 0.08 |
| untitled | 7 | 0.08 |
| Event Scheduling & Information | 7 | 0.08 |
| Test Public Safety | 7 | 0.08 |
| Voices Along the Way FYSE | 7 | 0.08 |
| Multimedia Tutor Training at Midd | 7 | 0.08 |
| English at the Monterey Institute | 7 | 0.08 |
| Allison Stanger | 7 | 0.08 |
| Middlebury Schools Abroad | 7 | 0.08 |
| Mexico-US Relations | 7 | 0.08 |
| LISterine Workshops | 7 | 0.08 |
| Middlebury Class of 2011 | 7 | 0.08 |
| FYSE’s blog for learning about learning | 7 | 0.08 |
| Test Kimble Lab | 6 | 0.07 |
| Revelations Run Amok | 6 | 0.07 |
| Dolci | 6 | 0.07 |
| Aspirationalism | 6 | 0.07 |
| ACS Liaisons | 6 | 0.07 |
| M2 IPMS | 6 | 0.07 |
| UMOJA Election | 6 | 0.07 |
| Facilities Furniture | 6 | 0.07 |
| Microphilanthropy | 6 | 0.07 |
| 6 | 0.07 | |
| The Pizza Process 2009 | 6 | 0.07 |
| The Malleable Human | 6 | 0.07 |
| CCAL | 6 | 0.07 |
| Jeffrey Byers | 6 | 0.07 |
| “What does Middlebury mean to you”? | 6 | 0.07 |
| Maple Falling in Vermont | 6 | 0.07 |
| Kiewit Scholarship at Middlebury | 6 | 0.07 |
| world can be more beautiful | 6 | 0.07 |
| Administrative Systems | 5 | 0.06 |
| Test of CommentPress | 5 | 0.06 |
| Advanced Beginning Dance | 5 | 0.06 |
| Vermont Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission | 5 | 0.06 |
| Student Fellowships and Scholarships | 5 | 0.06 |
| DPS Telecom Blog | 5 | 0.06 |
| Public Affairs test | 5 | 0.06 |
| INTERNET ART | 5 | 0.06 |
| middlebury squash | 5 | 0.06 |
| Flat Tire | 5 | 0.06 |
| Media Services | 5 | 0.06 |
| Alex Chapin | 5 | 0.06 |
| Teaching & Learning Collaborative | 5 | 0.06 |
| Midd East Action | 5 | 0.06 |
| Internships ‘R Us | 5 | 0.06 |
| Digital Media for Change | 4 | 0.05 |
| Middlebury College Blogs | 4 | 0.05 |
| MMLA Faculty Site | 4 | 0.05 |
| Another Dean’s View | 4 | 0.05 |
| Captains, kings and caudillos | 4 | 0.05 |
| Chris’ blog | 4 | 0.05 |
| Parenthetical Phase | 4 | 0.05 |
| Creative Process | 4 | 0.05 |
| Career Services Office | 4 | 0.05 |
| Keith’s blog | 4 | 0.05 |
| College Advancement | 4 | 0.05 |
| MIDD Web2.0 | 4 | 0.05 |
| Watts What | 4 | 0.05 |
| Brendan’s Blog | 4 | 0.05 |
| Firefly Project | 4 | 0.05 |
| Google Apps @ Middlebury | 4 | 0.05 |
| FYSE1121 Representations of Urban Italy | 4 | 0.05 |
| You Turn Radio | 3 | 0.03 |
| New England Afghan Community | 3 | 0.03 |
| La bit�cora de Carlos Jurado | 3 | 0.03 |
| Turtle Island Radio.com | 3 | 0.03 |
| Barnwell Project | 3 | 0.03 |
| Petar’s Blog | 3 | 0.03 |
| Economic Metaphors & Storytelling | 3 | 0.03 |
| In Hardwood Groves | 3 | 0.03 |
| Revolution, Intellectuals and the State | 3 | 0.03 |
| Midd CSO: Senior Program | 3 | 0.03 |
| catablogger | 3 | 0.03 |
| Urban Gardening | 3 | 0.03 |
| Salamander Rescues | 3 | 0.03 |
| Contemporary Moral Issues | 3 | 0.03 |
| Midd Musings: internet, strategy, et al | 3 | 0.03 |
| Kate Sullivan | 3 | 0.03 |
| Human Resources | 3 | 0.03 |
| Template for New Blogs | 3 | 0.03 |
| Digital Media Supervisor | 3 | 0.03 |
| Middlebury Printing Project | 3 | 0.03 |
| A View From The Basement | 3 | 0.03 |
| LIS Graduate Internship | 3 | 0.03 |
| Work | 3 | 0.03 |
| Database of Organisations | 3 | 0.03 |
| Cook Commons Council | 3 | 0.03 |
| Aesthetics of the Moving Image | 3 | 0.03 |
| testing 1 2 3 | 3 | 0.03 |
| Computing Policy & Security touches us all | 3 | 0.03 |
| Daisy’s Dreamland | 3 | 0.03 |
| Timilsina Corp. | 3 | 0.03 |
| Public Saftey | 3 | 0.03 |
| Let’s Talk Poetry Now | 3 | 0.03 |
| Media Lab Tutoring from Erik Fendik’s point of view | 3 | 0.03 |
| The Wonnablog | 3 | 0.03 |
| Rohatyn Center for International Affairs | 3 | 0.03 |
| Just another day… | 2 | 0.02 |
| Adam’s Test Blog | 2 | 0.02 |
| Logblog | 2 | 0.02 |
| Business Intelligence | 2 | 0.02 |
| Programma Settimanale | 2 | 0.02 |
| International Law (Spring 2010) | 2 | 0.02 |
| FYSE 1278 Fall 09 Picturing Nature | 2 | 0.02 |
| Chris’ Blog | 2 | 0.02 |
| SpareTime | 2 | 0.02 |
| Middlebury Mountain Club | 2 | 0.02 |
| egullick | 2 | 0.02 |
| Middlebury Magazine | 2 | 0.02 |
| New England Young Writers Conference | 2 | 0.02 |
| WordPress @ Middlebury | 2 | 0.02 |
| raja | 2 | 0.02 |
| Russian for a year | 2 | 0.02 |
| chathaji | 2 | 0.02 |
| test | 2 | 0.02 |
| smurf madness | 2 | 0.02 |
| koalaZ | 2 | 0.02 |
| MiddBorrowing | 2 | 0.02 |
| qchong | 2 | 0.02 |
| Robyn’s Roamings | 2 | 0.02 |
| Theatre | 2 | 0.02 |
| Media Forms | 2 | 0.02 |
| omyomtov | 2 | 0.02 |
| Chaplain’s Office | 2 | 0.02 |
| Envisioning and planning transinstitutional work i | 2 | 0.02 |
| Student Employment | 2 | 0.02 |
| MoreMedia | 2 | 0.02 |
| My Sanctuary | 2 | 0.02 |
| Office Services-MIIS | 2 | 0.02 |
| The Segue from Segue | 2 | 0.02 |
| SIGHT AND SOUND l | 2 | 0.02 |
| Chemistry & Biochemistry | 2 | 0.02 |
| Emotion Expt | 2 | 0.02 |
| Chad Harris III | 2 | 0.02 |
| International Tax Questions | 2 | 0.02 |
| Commons Administration | 2 | 0.02 |
| Middlebury Career Services | 2 | 0.02 |
| Monterey Institute Student Journals | 2 | 0.02 |
| Ross Commons Council | 2 | 0.02 |
| Bread Loaf School of English | 2 | 0.02 |
| where I can create forms | 2 | 0.02 |
| MIIS Student Journals | 2 | 0.02 |
| Ten Votes | 2 | 0.02 |
| The Life of Vincent Jones | 2 | 0.02 |
| Judicial Boards | 2 | 0.02 |
| Code Simple | 2 | 0.02 |
| Digital Media Commons | 2 | 0.02 |
| Brendan Owens Test Blog | 2 | 0.02 |
| Captains, Kings and Caudillos | 2 | 0.02 |
| LIS User Services Statistics | 2 | 0.02 |
| the abcdarium | 2 | 0.02 |
| teaching & learning snippets | 2 | 0.02 |
| Adam’s Testing blog | 2 | 0.02 |
| Middlebury Planned Giving Conference | 2 | 0.02 |
| Midd Global Action | 2 | 0.02 |
| Anna Karenina in the 21st Century | 2 | 0.02 |
| musings | 2 | 0.02 |
| MIDD Confessional Forum | 2 | 0.02 |
| Middlebury Class of �85 | 2 | 0.02 |
| sustainability | 2 | 0.02 |
| The Dissipated Eight | 2 | 0.02 |
| Ian’s Test | 2 | 0.02 |
| Innovation | 2 | 0.02 |
| scuola | 2 | 0.02 |
| Discussion Veguez | 2 | 0.02 |
| ACS | 2 | 0.02 |
| ETI | 2 | 0.02 |
| Arabic House | 2 | 0.02 |
| Middlebury Public Affairs | 2 | 0.02 |
| It’s a linguistic cadaver-all bones, no meat | 2 | 0.02 |
| Budget Suggestions | 1 | 0.01 |
| Honor Code Review Committee | 1 | 0.01 |
| Middlebury College Office of Gift Planning | 1 | 0.01 |
| Trustees of Middlebury College | 1 | 0.01 |
| Reprographics | 1 | 0.01 |
| The Music Library @ Midd | 1 | 0.01 |
| Middlebury Schools Abroad in Latin America (Chile and Mexico) | 1 | 0.01 |
| Banner Forms | 1 | 0.01 |
| LIS Accomplishments | 1 | 0.01 |
| Macky’s blog | 1 | 0.01 |
| Pedagogy and Technology Fair | 1 | 0.01 |
| Arts | 1 | 0.01 |
| Sui Generis | 0 | 0 |
| dhankerson | 0 | 0 |
| Banner Developers | 0 | 0 |
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Very cool – great baseline for our measurements.
The new LIS One-Blog is sure to move to the top!
Does this not include the MiddBlog?
A WordPress stats question.
How are visitors to the blog registered as a stat when they follow through an RSS feed – and read posts without directly clicking on the site each time? Can we gather stats for the number of followers?
At present, hits on the feed are not tracked, except in the server access logs and I have no idea how much of a history we have there.
Once someone actually clicks through to a story, their visit is tracked with Google Analytics, though their visit is difficult to differentiate from others who might come in through sources other than the RSS feed.
@Elin, MiddBlog is not included because it is hosted externally (at WordPress.com) rather than on our server.