I’ve got plans to do more here, too. I changed the template last weekend to the new WordPress default after discovering a problem with the old one. I’m also planning to shake up the content a bit, first by getting rid of the old photo galleries. Some of those may move to my Flickr, others will just live forever in an archive on a hard drive at home.

I also have some cool new content plans that I hope to start executing in the near future (hint: think kayaking). And there may be a new template, too.

Without further adieu, the most popular content here for the third quarter of 2008, according to Google Analytics, is:

• MyCokeRewards vs. PepsiStuff – The post I sometimes wish I had never written. It’s number one with a bullet and far outpaces everything else on the site. Readers seem to like to comment on it, too, but I recently turned those off. The truth is, I pretty much stopped drinking the stuff over a month ago in an effort to resolve a health problem (tinnitus). It didn’t relieve the problem, but I don’t feel any worse for not having all that caffeine and aspartame running around my system so I now only very moderately consume diet cola and unsweet tea. I had a thought while preparing myself to write the post that you are reading of trying to dethrone it by writing something like, “Divorce – one man’s strategy.”
• Ichetucknee Springs tubing photos – My first attempt at writing a post with the expressed intent of collecting search engine traffic. It worked. I’m currently number three behind two official pages if you use the post title as the search term.
• Geotagging photos for Flickr with Mac OS X and a Garmin GPS – This makes me happy as it’s the type of writing I would like to do more of around here.
• Micanopy Fall Harvest Festival pics posted – Must be all search engine traffic.
• JBL On Stage II comments – I’m pleased to see another recent techie product-oriented post make this list.

The old photo gallery still gets a bit of traffic here, too. One of these days I may actually finish moving all that stuff to Flickr (some of it’s duplicated), properly handle redirects, and get a nice solution in place for displaying the Flickr stuff here. Some day, maybe.

The most-viewed old photo galleries here in this time frame were:

• Ichetucknee Springs Tubing – July 23, 2005 – This set is also on Flickr.
• Horse Farm Hundred – Oct. 2, 2005
• Caterpillars
• Ichetucknee Springs Tubing – July 30, 2005 – This set is also on Flickr, where a certain photo was, for a while, getting a bit of search engine traffic from fans of Ultimate Fighting’s Dana White.
• Greathouse Butterfly Farm – May 1, 2004

Tubing, bicycling and butterflies — yeah, that sounds like me.

If you’re interested in what search terms bring traffic here, they would be:

• Pepsi stuff, MyCokeRewards, and related terms.
• Ichetucknee tubing and variations thereof.
• Digital photography presentation – leading here.
• Micanopy Fall Harvest Festival and variations thereof.

• How to make a banana pudding – Finally a new champion.
• More Ichetucknee Springs tubing photos – The new champ on Google for “Ichetucknee Springs tubing photos.”
• Ichetucknee Springs tubing photos – The former champ is down, but not out.
• Mario, 9 Sep 1990 – 12 Jan 2007 – Still getting search hits for “Mario 9.”
• Digital Photography presentation available – I should put the Analytics tracking code on the presentation itself to see how many click throughs it gets. I guess this is an example of “the long tail.”

I didn’t post for August because it looked just like July.

It’s been a good couple of weeks that have found me going tubing twice. Will something happen to make it thrice? I don’t know. But here are some more photo sets:

• Tubing with the Byrneses and Kinseys – 31 July 2007 – One of my best tubing trips ever (but is there such a thing as a bad day tubing?) when my out-of-town cousins came to town and we did the whole thing on a Tuesday, one of the slowest days of the week during Summer.
• 2nd Strays Ichetucknee Triathlon – 11 Aug 2007 – The most-crowded day I have ever seen there, probably because it’s one of the last weekends before school starts in most counties around here. I went with a group from my cycling club and we rode and picnicked before tubing. I have never before seen the river so crowded. When we were ready to tube at about 1 p.m., the mid-point shuttle had already closed for the day. And when we exited the river, there was a tremendous queue to wait in for the parking lot shuttle. I think I got some cool people photos.

I guess this post could be titled, “It was the best of times and it was the worst of times,” but as I asked earlier, “is there such a thing as a bad day tubing?”

I once again want to give a shout-out to Aquapac for their awesome waterproof case. It seems that every time I break it out in public lately, someone asks me about it and thinks it’s cool.

Related: Ichetucknee Springs tubing photos.

• Ichetucknee Springs tubing photos -No surprise there.
• Most Popular Posts: June 2007 -Probably search-engine driven from all the tubing links on there.
• How to make a banana pudding – A little surprise, but it is summer and that’s a great summer recipe.
• slickr is, well, slick – I’m not sure what’s behind the popularity of this one. It gets hit daily or twice daily by two readers–which is probably as much an indicator of how little traffic I get as anything.
• Mario, 9 Sep 1990 – 12 Jan 2007 -A lot of these are search hits for “Mario 9.”

The most popular photo albums for July were:

• Ichetucknee Springs Tubing – July 23, 2005
• Ichetucknee Springs Tubing – July 30, 2005
• Caterpillars

I need to post here more often–if for no other reason than to keep certain undesirable visitors entertained. My excuse for July is that half of it was preoccupied by a vacation, its prep and aftermath. I was pretty active on flickr. I have a post about a photography topic that’s been in draft mode for over a month. I should finish it and also write about how I spent my summer vacation. Maybe this week, or maybe not.

• slickr is, well, slick – I wonder if the tubing theme had something to do with that?
• Ichetucknee Springs tubing photos – Wondering if I should rename this site “Craig’s Ichetucknee tubing photos”?
• More new photos on Flickr
• Photography notes
• Mario, 9 Sep 1990 – 12 Jan 2007

A lot of search-engine-generated traffic came in looking for Ichetucknee Springs tubing photos and pictures of caterpillars and butterflies. The most popular of those destinations are:

• Ichetucknee Springs Tubing – July 30, 2005
• Caterpillars
• Ichetucknee Springs Tubing – July 23, 2005

• Photography notes
• Mario, 9 Sep 1990 – 12 Jan 2007
• Christmas Update 2006
• Photo presentation online at my work site
• At SXSW in Austin, Texas

Looks familiar.

I noticed quite a bit of traffic last month in the old photo galleries. Some popular things there are:

• Ichetucknee Springs Tubing – July 30, 2005
• Caterpillars
• Greathouse Butterfly Farm – May 1, 2004
• The Butterfly Rainforest
• Butterflies of Melrose

I need to find time to (a) finish off a new template I’m working on and (b) get Flickr-to-Wordpress  plugin going good so I can see if I see more Flickr photo traffic through here.

• Photography notes
• Mario, 9 Sep 1990 – 12 Jan 2007
• Christmas Update 2006
• My new audio recorder
• At SXSW in Austin, Texas

While not a blog post, but an old photo gallery, my Greathouse Butterfly Farm photos were also very popular. I should post more here. I did better at work last month. Maybe it’s cyclical. Traffic here was a little busier than it has been in the past though.