Google Analytics - How visitors get on my site

These are the keywords people google for and end up on my site. So, just in case you don’t know what to blog about – there’s apparently a lack of content on the web about Lukasz Sebastian Gottwald aka Dr. Luke.
And in case you’re wondering what I’m doing the whole time (apart from trying to manage my university-stuff, and failing desperately with it): I created ca. four hours of video-content about CSS3 & HTML5 (in German unfortunately, but the first video has english subtitles) and will set up the site css3-html5.de, because there is no such site yet in German.

Btw: This post isn’t meant to indicate that I start blogging again. Actually the idea to write this post just popped up in my mind when I was going through the Google Analytics.
Anyway. We shouldn’t forget: Germany just won the football match against England in the World Cup (or “soccer” match as most of my visitors are from the US). Great day. A few impressions of the situation after the match below. In the next round we have to compete against Argentinia…

There's no such thing as football (1/5)

There's no such thing as football (2/5)

There's no such thing as football (3/5)

There's no such thing as football (4/5)

There's no such thing as football (5/5)

The reason I actually stopped blogging in the first place is that I’ve become a Twitaddict. (Neologisms are so very Web2.0y!) Whenever I wanna tell the world about something I compromise it to 140 characters or share a link of interest. So, there is no need to have a blog any more. Sad, but true.

Oh, btw: As I don’t take the blog down – I may find a reason to post a new article and revive “me-blogs-it”! In this case… just ignore this post! ;)

Before and After the Redesign

I’m not finished with the redesign to be honest. But the basis is done. I’ve also polished the logo:

Logo - before and after the redesign

The about-text doesn’t slide up and down anymore, but fades in and out now:

About - Before and After the Redesign

The head and the content are now graphically linked to each other. It’s like a source of light would be behind the logo:

head-content - Before and After the Redesign

 The style for the actual content (font-colors, fonts, etc.) isn’t changed yet. And the footer is still the same. And there are things in the css-files I don’t need anymore, but haven’t deleted it yet. So there’s still a lot to do!

German Blog Top 10

10. Indiskretion Ehrensache

One of the blogs by Germany’s leading commercial economy newspaper “Handelsblatt”. This Blog however has just very little to do with the topics of the newspaper. Blogger and Handelsblatt-reporter “Thomas Knüwer” writes often about Web 2.0, the internet and how journalists have to change to get along with this new medium.

Indiskretion Ehrensache - Screenshot

9. medienlese.com

A blog by a well known Swiss blog company called “blogwerk AG”. Medienlese.com is a blog about Media. Since August 2006 they observe developments and innovations in the German-speaking media landscape. It’s a professional Blog by a Team of four bloggers. 

medienlese - Screenshot

8. Spreeblick.com = “spree-view”

Is one of the best known Blogs within the German blogosphere. It was founded in 2002 by Johnny Haeusler and his wife Tanja Haeusler. The actual success came with a post in which business practices of Germany’s mobile content provider “Jamba!” (in English-speaking countries “Jamster!”) were disclosed. In 2005 these two founded the first German blog publishing company to support professional German bloggers. 2006 Spreeblick was honored with the renowned Grimme online award.

Today, many of Germany’s Top-Bloggers are also blogging on Spreeblick.com. They have 13 authors by now and 7000 visitors daily.

Spreeblick - Screenshot

7. netzpolitik.org = “net-politics”

Is about topics of the digital society like governmental control, Open-Source software, telecommunication laws, Creative Commons, a free knowledge-based society… It was founded in 2002 by Markus Beckendahl. It was honoured with several awards. Among others they got the “Freedom Blog Award” by “Reporters Without Borders” in 2005 and the Grimme Online Award in 2008.

netzpolitik - Screenshot

6. Nerdcore.de

Subheading: “This Blog About Very Cool Stuff. Und So.” (“Und so” = “And stuff like that”) It is indeed a very cool blog! It’s made by Webdesigner René Walter who blogs about freaky, weird things he finds on the internet in an indescribable hilarious way! It’s so much fun to read it! He writes 8 to 9 posts every day (for all non-Bloggers: that’s kinda much)! There’s a live visitor-counter in the footer of his site on which you can see how many visitors are with you on the site at the very moment  - and the counter often shows a number beyond 100 – so, Nerdcore is quite visited!

Nerdcore - Screenshot

5. netzwertig.com = “net-worthy”

Another blog by the blogwerk AG. It’s like medienlese, but about Internet economy. Apart from news about current developments on the internet, they also analyze how the internet affects our society and present new internet-start-ups from the German-speaking World.

Netzwertig - Screenshot

4. GoogleWatchBlog

Is a Watchblog about Google and Google’s acquisited companys (like YouTube). It’s not writing in a critical way (as it’s actually common for watchblogs), but rather in a pro-Google way. Nevertheless the blog is independent from Google Inc.! It’s one of the most read German Blogs, but it’s definitively the most subscribed German blog: It has over twenty-five thousand feed-subscribers!

Google Watch Blog - Screenshot

3. Stefan Niggemeier

Stefan Niggemeier is a German mediajournalist. He’s an editor at the notable Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. He’s well-known for co-founding the famous “BILDblog” (see below) on which he’s still blogging today. On his personal Weblog he comments and criticizes on processes in the Media landscape. His posts have a very high journalistic quality. In 2007 he recieved the Grimme Online Award for his Blog.

Stefan Niggemeier - Screenshot

2. BILDblog

The BILD-Zeitung is the most read German daily newspaper. It’s a tabloid – comparable to “The Sun” in Britain and, uhm, “The Daily News” in the USA?! …Anyway! The BILD is known for straining the truth often times and having a low journalistic quality. That’s why in 2004 Stefan Niggemeier and Christoph Schultheis founded the BILDblog as a watchblog to disclose mistakes, insufficient investigation and product placement in the BILD-Zeitung. BILDblog has become the best known blog in Germany, it’s even known to people beyond the German Blogosphere. Everyday 50.000 people visit the site! The ad revenues are so high that the BILDblog-bloggers (skilled journalists all together) work at their own little BILDblog-office in Berlin (a former butchery)! Since the BILDblog got so much attention, the BILD reacted on it and introduced a corrective slot on page 2 in which they correct themselves every day. In a screenshot that appeared in the BILD-Zeitung you can see that BILDblog is a “favorite” in their browser:

BILDblog is a favorite in BILD's browsers

BILDblog - Screenshot

1. Basic Thinking Blog

This Blog was originally Robert Basic‘s personal blog (That’s why “Basic thinking”). He blogged about technical stuff, the internet and so on. And because there are many other tech-oriented Blogs out there, he became the most linked Blog in Germany’s Blogosphere. This however caused attention and with it a rising number of readers and subscribers. That’s how he became number one of several of those Blogosphere rankings. But suddenly, at the 6th of January 2009, he announced that he wants to sell his blog, because he got bored of it! So, he auctioned it on eBay. This caused a stir and he was interviewed by several Newspapers and TV channels. On 15.1.2009 basicthinking.de was sold for 46.902 Euros to a company called “Plusserver”. They continued blogging about tech-stuff with a whole Team of bloggers now. However, the topics are not as interesting any more as they were in the time when “Robert Basic” was blogging. Nevertheless, they made a very cool campaign three weeks ago when they gave away 1000 free CeBit tickets.

Basic Thinking - Screenshot

So. Now you’ve got an overview of the German Blogosphere: A lot of media-related blogs, a lot of tech-related blogs and some others in between.

On Thursday, 19.2. I received my first Trackback. It wasn’t such a happy event as I expected it to be – it was rather mysterious as you can read here.
The post about the German TV landscape had been another milestone: I published the post at the evening of the 23.2. In the morning of the 24.2. I was quite open-mouthed, because I’ve had 16 visitors who read the post in the few hours between evening and morning. I’ve wondered how all these people actually have found my blog! So, the very same day I installed Google Analytics to track the visitors and learned that half of my visitors are indeed non-Germans!

Yesterday’s post about “Wetten Dass” even enhanced the number of post-views over night: 26 views within 10 hours. Established blogs will laugh about those numbers, but for me – without any blogging-experiences – it’s kinda big stuff! Let’s see what the next two weeks, and the next months will bring..!

intermediate result: The state of my blog after two weeks of blogging

Oh, and: Yes, I know – the picture here looks crappy!