We’re re-instating the State of the Riot as a monthly feature. For new players there’s some fun stuff in the keywords down the page.
In the meantime, well, that’s a gratifying bounce on my return! Better than I hoped for and thank you all for reading and, where appropriate, for contributing.
Visits: 95,998 – Up 14.01%
Pageviews: 296,721 – Up 23.24%
Absolute unique visitors: 37,223 – Up 12.28%
Housekeeping
While I’ve got you here a few house-keeping announcements. If you’re one of the thousands of Canberrans enjoying reading RiotACT perhaps you should consider supporting us? You can just make a donation
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Now, a note to our many fans in the wider Canberra media community. We all lift stuff from each other. No Question. RiotACT does it more than most. But we do credit the sources of our stories. So if we have made your life easier by giving you story ideas maybe, just maybe, giving us a plug back will help insure we’re here to help you out for years to come??
And isn’t it a little ridiculous referring to “a Canberra website” as if there’s only one?
Fun stuff
So the 20 most read stories on RiotACT in July were:
- 1) Murder most foul in Charnwood
2) New DFO Fyshwick will make airport seem “Brand Depleted”
3) Ice, Meth and E soon to be sold by the cops
4) Parton boned from 106???
5) Raider implicated in All Bar Nun fight last night
6) Goodbye Starbucks – you were never good enough for this town
7) Glebe Park – the lover’s lane of Canberra
8) The Return of the King… or, a dog to vomit.
9) Is Marist College Legal?
10) ACT government commissions review of suicide attempt
11) WIN News gets it right
12) Trimming down the bride…
13) Canberra most haunted?
14) GDE duplication is GO GO GO
15) WTF? More Marist Trickery – Are these guys marist brothers or master magicians?
16) Down Memory Lane
17) Creation of a Marist Ex-students and Families lobby Group – Interest sought
18) Reasons why the ACT is better than NSW – Jon Stanhope
19) Police activity in Dickson
20) The Kenja Trust presents “Guilty until proven innocent”
And the hundred highest ranked search terms which brought people to RiotACT in July were:
- 1) riot act
2) riotact
3) the riot act
4) riot act canberra
5) the riotact
6) mark parton
7) riotact canberra
8) the riot-act
9) dfo fyshwick
10) riot-act
11) www.the-riotact.com
12) riot+act
13) all bar nun fights
14) todd carney
15) helen volmari
16) car+accident+on+majura
17) canberra airport
18) fraser court
19) gde duplication
20) the-riotact.com
21) flint restaurant
22) chester
23) the riotact rudd public servants
24) the riot act canberra
25) tonk system addict review
26) ha ha bar belconnen
27) dfo canberra
28) foskey staffer roland
29) grapevine voip
30) limestone lizzy
31) “barrel of monkeys” + canberra + band
32) anu singh
33) contented soul act
34) riotact south vietnam
35) wasabi dickson
36) raiders+earth+hour
37) griffith vietnamese
38) nyssa76 anissa
39) underground base canberra
40) “overheard” canberra
41) wasp’s nests
42) massage canberra
43) “lincoln hawkins”
44) dale seaman daramalan
45) hall ps
46) canberra long-term parking
47) best plumber canberra riotact
48) riot act act
49) jess wright
50) site:the-riotact.com cornucopia haunted
51) angela shanahan
52) my hat is a red saucepan
53) richard mulcahy
54) bootcamp in canberra
55) riot act goolia
56) 73549138494000
57) gungahlin community council
58) skidbladnir
59) charnwood murder
60) noodle house menu tuggeranong
61) video ezy
62) elvin group
63) plaka pizza
64) blossy canberra
65) capital+city+punkfest
66) canberra brewery
67) dickson noodle house
68) carney poll best player
69) sausages site:http://the-riotact.com/
70) act computer fairs 2008
71) charcoal restaurant canberra menu
72) crusty demons
73) “police convention in civic” 2008
74) events torch relay act map
75) three mothers thai
76) www.the-riotact.com.au
77) cam sullings
78) katie bender parents
79) “identical strangers” “canberra” “band”
80) fireworks canberra
81) “gungahlin drive”
82) defence hq bungendore stupid
83) delissio curtin
84) new action bus timetable
85) nyssa76 housing joker
86) burgman anglican college
87) craigslist canberra
88) danman
89) dendy premium cinema menu
90) hansel & gretel coffee
91) hughes canberra
92) paintball canberra
93) yum cha deakin
94) central cafe queanbeyan
95) kate carnell dui
96) scumdorg+canberra
97) westfield woden expansion
98) canberra interstate rego
99) daramalan victim
100) adventure playground in gordon
Also for all the nerds here’s the breakdown on web-broswers used to read us:
- Internet Explorer 61.79%
Firefox 29.30%
Safari 7.04%
Opera 1.00%
Mozilla 0.40%
And operating systems:
- 1. Windows – 87.53%
2. Macintosh – 10.17%
3. Linux – 1.81%
4. iPod – 0.14%
5. SymbianOS – 0.10%
6. iPhone – 0.08%
7. Playstation 3 – 0.08%
8. (not set) – 0.06%
9. SunOS – 0.01%
10. Danger Hiptop – 0.01%
(There were also a views from a Nintendo Wii and a PalmOS but too few to make the percentages).
Discuss….
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Hey, I notice the Poolroom Taglines have been added-to! One of my nominations got up: Vicepope’s problem finding diplomatic postings for other ACT assembly members, as diplomatic relations with Hell have not yet been established. I’ll be watching the headers with interest to see what else got up.
@Jazz: Possibly something along the lines of
Rating = ( (Average_votes_quantity * Average_votes_quality) + (This_votes_quantity * This_votes_quality) ) / (Average_votes_quantity + This_votes_quantity)
where –
Average_votes_quantity: The average number of votes of all items that have votes_quantity>0
Average_votes_quality: The average rating of each item (of those that have votes_quantity>0)
this_votes_quantity: number of votes for this item
this_votes_quality: the rating of this item
But its quite possible that that will just skew things a bit, instead of being a perfect system of developing ratings, it will require more polish.
Your codemonkey owes me a pint.
Skidbladnir said :
@peterh: But are they -identical- (as in monozygotic) twin boys?
PS: I’m not saying you’re not doing anything good (So long as the kids get fed, watered, educated, and don’t grow up to steal my car or stab my wife, you’ll do fine), just that fraternal (as in dizygotic) twins aren’t caused by anything fathers do, unless he’s slipping fertility drugs into his wife’s food.
@Jazz: My code & doco inspecting hours are pretty much spoken for until we get our next enhancement release gets into Prod, but I may give it a shot (probably not for a while).
Skidbladnir said :
I’d be more than happy to include that bit of code if we could find someone to write it for us. care to have a stab at it Skid?
Mmmm, interesting point JB! Fear not, further opportunities exist where we will also seek to give RA credit for what it, and its mods, have done to assist/promote debate and discussion in the above mentioned case!
Which is particularly odd seeing as they do mention us frequently where appropriate.
I suspect it depends who you’re asking.
caf said :
I was on ABC TV news recently talking about the Marist/Dara abuse issue and asked if I could plug RIOTACT for all the good work they’ve done (i.e. promoting the issue, letting discussion run free etc.). I was advised (very nicely) that as it’s the ABC it counts as advertising and they can’t do that.
Well you know we don’t actually make that stuff up.
First it has to happen and then we have to hear about it…
Love riotact but am I right in thinking there are fewer fed politics articles than there used to be? I like a mix of local shenanigans and federal derring-do – like the recent Annie O’Rourke affair at PMC …
Seconded – with thanks.
Thumper for Premium Subscription status for his continued efforts !
My god, can someone explain number 52???
My hat personally ISNT a red saucepan!!
peterh said :
You need to come up with a good business case.
No Peter, Tyler was on topic, no action taken.
Even going to moderation doesn’t mean you’ve been silenced, just that comments have to be approved before they appear.
“Jumping the shark” refers to The Fonz waterskiiing over a shark in Happy Days, a moment most now regard as the point when the show went into irrevocable decline.
Hey JB, where is the person who was trying to heap onto you? are they in the moderation queue? I believe that they “jumped the shark”?
funny comment that, still don’t know what it means, though….
Skidbladnir said :
It wasn’t bad enough that you put all this info up, but I was making reference to the fact that 2 little boys, 2 eggs, means that there must be something good that I am doing.
(now my wife is entertaining the idea of one more (or is it 2))
anyway, raising 3 kids under 4 has taught me that there is this dream state called sleep, that one day, after my daughter is married, I may be able to achieve again. not happening any time soon….. BUT, I earn the money in the house, my wife does the budget. fair trade I feel. Hate budgets, hate doing them even more.
I could ask for an increase in my project fund, but as i have shelled out $6K for a faceting machine, I don’t think it would be looked on favorably….
If the mother has released two fertile eggs, as he’s set loose millions of them originally, and eventually thousands of them make it to finish (and it just being a matter of whoever gets across the line first), then there are two chances of success.
For DZ (fraternal) twins, fathers aren’t the special one in the union.
For MZ (identical) twins, both parents need to be special in whatever the criterion for twinning is.
(I am of DZ parents, at one point went out with a girl who was a DZ twin, so though it might be worth finding out more about, before anything unexpected happened…)
Ok, so maybe it wasn’t exactly good authority…. *chuckle*
Twinning really has very little to do with the father. (Sorry Granny)
Fraternal (Dizygotic) twins are matrilineal (the ejaculatory father does not influence how many ovum the conceiving mother releases, but a female with a family history of DZ twins is herself more likely to produce DZ spawn), identical (MZ) twins are a mystery as to what the hell the process is.