Keeping Statistics

So today was one of those days when there wasn't a great deal of news stories going on in Cincinnati. When these kind of days come around, there are plenty of things to do to catch up on other work. One thing that always seems to never end: keeping statistics for the Web site.

Yes, that is one great thing about the Internet. We can analyze the stories people are most interested in reading about and make an attempt to increase stories of that type. Of course, since we are a news publication we can't just make the news but we can come out with feature stories or focus on other news stories that increase interest. It isn't quite an exact science yet, but some day it will be.

Well, like I said, today was one of those statistic days. I had to put together a portfolio compiling every video watched since 2006. I then had to put together total views for each year as well as views per video. Yeah, exciting stuff. But they have to get done and that's what the intern is there for. We complete the stuff that no one else has any interest doing.

So, nothing too exciting today but that happens. I did help set up the studio for the "Women of the Year" shoot that takes place tomorrow. So I should have a pretty interesting post to provide tomorrow. I must be getting to bed because the life of an intern at a news publication begins pretty early in the morning.