South King Street, Dublin this afternoon
Sam writes;
“A section of a double glazed window fell from the top floor of the H&M store in Dublin City Center this afternoon. South King Street was closed off to pedestrians as workers tried to clean up the tiny bits of shattered glass….nobody injured.”
Heat related or something else entirely?
Anyone?
DIRECTLY RELATED: Meanwhile On Suffolk Street
(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)
Walking statgasm Karl Monaghan
Further to our fourth birthday yesterday.
*wipes cake crumbs*
“Karl, year four…give it to us straight, no chaser…”
New users up 3% to 24% of visitors
Users up 6.5% to 3.2m from 3m
Pageviews down 14.5% from 32.5m to 27.8m
Screenviews stand at 20.5m
“So why the drop in pageviews? Nice whistle.”
Thanks. It looks like the mobile apps are cannibalising the desktop site.
This is in part due to the an Android app finally getting released, but also because of the ongoing trend across the web of the growth in traffic from mobile apps.
I don’t have a full year of stats for the 2012/2013 to compare mobile usage with but with a bit of hand wavying estimations based on the 5 months of data I do have, there’s about a 25% increase in screenviews. If I combined the 20.5m screenviews (which are setup to be the equivalent of a pageview on the desktop site) between the iOS and Android apps to the desktop, you get about 12% growth year on year.
Outside of the apps while the traffic from mobile has increased by 5% to 16% of the total pageviews to 3.3m. Tablet usage just increased 1% to 793K.
iOS powered devices still deliver 2 pageviews to every 1 from an Android device.
Samsung dominates the top 50 devices used with 23 models (although some are variants on the same handset). Sony has 6, HTC weighs in with 5, Apple and Nokia have 4 each and Google just 2.
“What are people Reading? Sure about the brown shoes?”
Yes, As has always been the case, about half of all pageviews are the front page of the site. The top posts more represent what people have commented on or shared, since the stories are published in full when you’re looking at the home page.
11,464 post were published over the course of the last year. The top five by pageviews were:
Staying Alive
‘The Mask Is Off And People Know’
Who Is He?
Dear RTÉ
What Your Electric Guitar Says About You
Interestingly, three of the stories (‘The Mask Is Off And People Know’, Who Is He? and Dear RTÉ) were only published in the last week, while What Your Electric Guitar Says About You is nearly two years old. These are both perfect examples of the two ways posts become huge.
The recent stories are (obviously) very current and immediate. People are sharing and commenting one them as they’re igniting people’s passions. The guitar post, on the other hand, is one that has enduring interest and every so often gets spread around forums and gets shared on Facebook again and again.
The fact that four of the top five posts are rather serious content (a trend that extends to the top 25 posts of the year) is a possible indication of a more serious tone on the site or that people are more inclined to share the more serious material.
“What are the subjects causing comment, heated debate and often FIGHTS?
There’s been 192,170 comments from 10,117 commenters. Of these, 21 commenters have posted over 1,000 comments each and responsible for 45,688 between them.
The five most commented posts were:
Taking It Back
Staying Alive
Caring For The Pigeons
The Traveller Card
Extreme Canvassing
“Thanks Karl.”
Don’t mention it. It’s my duty.
“Thanks in anyhow.”
MORE DETAILED ANALYSIS: Broadsheet Year 4 (Karl Monaghan)
You need to know that your latest onslaught in Gaza guarantees that as a nation, you will be loathed and reviled by growing numbers of people around the world. No, not because you are jewish- that doesn’t come into it, but because you murder civilians in their 100s with your high-tech weaponry. Because you have burnt little children, blown their limbs off, killed their parents, their brothers and sisters, grandparents, aunts and uncles.
You have destroyed their homes. Because you fire flechettes at human beings, because you use DIME bombs in densely crowded civilian areas, you have rained white phosphorous down on a school, you have killed disabled people in their residential home, killed sick people in intensive care when you bombed a hospital. You bombed a UN school where women and children had taken refuge and then lied about it. You bombed a playground on the first day of Eid Al Fitr, a festival akin to Christmas. That was your present to the little children who played on a roundabout in their new outfits, now wrapped in sheets in their graves. Again, you sent out your propagandists to lie.
Since you destroyed the infrastructure of Gaza in 2008-2009, you have never allowed it to be rebuilt, leading to no sewage treatment, poor water supplies, sporadic electricity – in short you have made people’s lives as hard as they can possibly be. Relentlessly. You shoot farmers and fishermen who are doing their best to fight off poverty and fend for their families. You have done all these things and so much more, and then you lie to the world, trying to depict your victims as perpetrators, when it is you.
You are the occupying power, you are the aggressor. You bully the policy and decision makers and use political influence to ensure that your version of events is the one that is repeated, as if it were the truth. But you are not fooling us all, and you will pay for your crimes in the international criminal court – of that I have no doubt.
Call me an anti-semite and I will laugh at you as I know it is untrue, you will not shut me and others like me up. We will continue to speak out.
We will boycott your products, we will call out with millions of voices around the world for divestment of funds from Israel and sanctions against you until you comply with international law, until you:
1. End the occupation and colonization of all Arab lands and dismantle the Wall
2. Recognize the fundamental rights of the Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel to full equality; and
3. Respect, protect and promote the rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties as stipulated in UN resolution 194.
We will struggle against our governments and institutions that are complicit in your crimes until you find yourself alone.You can change your path. You can stand for rights, for justice, for humanity. I hope this is the choice you make. But in the end, the choice is yours.
Elaine Bradley
Elaine is a human rights activist working in the West Bank.
ALTERNATIVELY: Why Don’t I Criticise Israel? (Sam Harris)
Previously: We Walked In Solidarity
‘sup?
Phoenix Park, Dublin this morning.
Sam writes:
“Fallow deer graze as the long grass which has been cut and bailed near the Papal Cross. Since the 1970s with the removal of hay these grasslands has been improving. Extensive open areas of grassland such as the ‘Fifteen Acres ‘ provide nesting sites for skylark. Grasslands which are remote from the main thoroughfares, are not cut and thus provide food and shelter for invertebrates and cover for small animals….”
Mmf.
(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4iqPumWMMo
Jimmy Witherspoon’s soulful 1949 cover of the 1920s blues classic Ain’t Nobody’s Business (accompanied by Ben ‘Frog’ Webster on sax).
Prepare to have your mood significantly mellowed.
Wednesday July 30: Happenings Open Air Music: Katie Kim, Conor Walsh @ Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin 2 (€5, 7pm)
Nialler9 writes:
“Happenings kick off its weekly Wednesday evenings of music in Fitzwilliam Square with the promise of sunny 24 degree weather and music from evocatively-voiced Katie Kim and minimal piano composer Conor Walsh on the grass…. Music from 7:30pm until 9:30pm. The plan is to have guest curators pick live performers every week until October….”
This morning.
Laura writes:
“Greyhound staff [who are members of SIPTU], continue their strike outside the refuse company’s Clondalkin plant today. Approx 70 workers have been on strike since June 17 over the company’s plans to cut their wages by 35 per cent and change their employment conditions. Greyhound, however, say the workers will still be paid 10 per cent above the industry average….”
(Laura Hutton/Photocall ireland)
Outside Jervis Street Shopping Centre, Jervis Street, Dublin this afternoon.
Thanks Stephen
