One of the more unfortunate things about writing a blog focused on long-form essays that are not easily discussable is that you don’t get a ton of information about your audience just from comments and e-mail dialog. Through limited methods, I have some very rough visibility from what I can put together based on referrer logs, subscribed email addresses, and other sources.
Anyway, here’s a meta-blog post, in tradition with previous ones on top referrers, subscriber boosts from Scoble, and others, I wanted to share a short collection of the wonderful audience I’m very grateful to have reading this blog.
It’s pretty amazing to see how wide and interdisciplinary the audience is – there’s a ton of folks from super-consumery publishers/games, but also advertising and finance folks.
Here’s a selection of the companies that caught my eye:
Advertising and B2B:
- Aster Data Systems
- Medio Systems
- Revenue Science
- Tacoda
- Right Media
- Publicis Groupe
- … and a bunch of ad networks
Games and entertainment
- Electronic Arts
- Linden Lab
- NCSoft
- Sulake
- … and numerous startups like IMVU, Gaia, AreaE, and Weeworld
Media
- Joost
- Yahoo
- Virgin
- Slide
- MTV
- Hi5
- Tagged
- … and tons of Facebook developers and apps
Finance
- Lazard Freres
- Elevation Partners
- Mohr Davidow Ventures
- Blue Run Ventures
- Sierra Ventures
- Bessemer Venture Partners
Sorry if I’m missing anyone – I have a lot of empty referrer URLs, personal gmail/hotmail/yahoo addresses, and many other untraceable sources :)
Anyway, thanks to everyone for reading!