Last updated on 23rd August 2014
Period: The posts (excluding first post not related to academia) are from Sept. 2011 to now (Aug. 2014) i.e. around 3 years
Total published posts: 127
Total pageviews: 10,006 [My guesstimate is that Reference spam accounts for 15 to 20 percent of this count]
The total pageviews is not a large number given the number of posts and the period. However there are some visitors almost every day, if not every day, viewing some post or the other. The typical monthly pageviews in the recent past is above 300 views. So I think the objective of sharing my views and the contributions from various contributors and mail correspondents with interested people out there on the Internet has got met to some extent. Around 10 percent of the pageviews are referred by search engines like Google.
Audience - top ten countries
Interestingly the highest pageviews are from USA and not India. Viewers from other countries like Russia, Germany and Ukraine also have shown some interest in the blog.
Top ten posts
Steve Jobs: The iPhone Introduction (2007) - 218 views
CS & IT Academia: Serious Systemic Problems? - 140 views
Programming: Practical Solution Mindset vs. Scientific Mindset - 137 views
Off-Campus PhD Degrees - Assam State Government to reduce pay of teachers with such degrees! - 130 views
Comments on Stroustrup's paper, "Software Development for Infrastructure" in IEEE Computer, Jan. 2012 - 123 views
CS & IT Academia: How to Teach Programming? - 114 views
Napster, mp3 music industry disruption and MOOC - 113 views
Online Programming Courses: Use MIT's OCW or IIT's NPTEL or Stanford's SEE - 102 views
Georgia Tech, Udacity and AT&T offer Online MS degree in CS under $7000 - 99 views
Should M.Tech.(CS) Project be CS Research Oriented Or Software Engineering Project Oriented? - 90 views
Important pre-print academic paper (external link) related to this blog
A pre-print paper of mine titled, "Improve the Practice of Software Development in India by Having a Software Development Career Track in Indian CS & IT Academia", put up on arxiv.org hosted by Cornell University, USA, http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.1715 (Pdf: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1202.1715), is shown as the top/first result in Google search (from incognito Chrome window on my PC on 23rd August 2014) for the following terms:
- poor software development skills Indian CS graduates
- poor software development skills Indian Computer Science graduates
- improve software development skills Indian CS graduates
- poor practice of software development Indian CS graduates
- poor practice of software development Indian Computer Science graduates
- improve practice of software development Indian CS graduates
- improve practice of software development Indian Computer Science graduates
It is the 2nd result for this Google search term:
- improve software development skills Indian Computer Science graduates
As arxiv.org does not show the number of views of the abstract and paper I do not have any idea of how many people viewed the abstract and/or paper.
Though it is a pre-print paper, i.e. not published in a peer reviewed publication (journal/conference proceedings/academic magazine), it has received one citation as listed by Google scholar: http://scholar.google.co.in/scholar?cites=1891958383761188275
I wrote to the editor (perhaps it was editor-in-chief) of the famous international computing field publication, Communications of the ACM, http://cacm.acm.org/, many months ago, perhaps over a year ago, who responded that while I was welcome to submit the above paper to the peer review process of CACM, he wrote something to the effect that his view was that it would be of limited appeal (as it dealt only with Indian CS/IT academia, I presume). I then decided not to invest my time in that peer review process.
Some months ago I wrote to the editor of a well known and high-level (in terms of policy debate) publication, I believe, of India dealing with a variety of fields like politics, economics, sociology etc., Economic and Political Weekly, http://www.epw.in/, wondering whether they would be interested in considering this paper for review and possible publication. I got no response from them.
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