Web logs statistics - pre free downloads

I thought it was about time to take a deeper look at the weblogs and see how much of an impact the free download offer would have on traffic and downloading patterns over the next six months. For the benchmark, here is the summary for the last 5 months.

For the time period starting 17th April 2006 - 17th September 2006
Domain - www.alchemya.com including the http://bluescreen.alchemya.com website, Alchemy Associates and Alchemy Technologies home page and the three blogs (DesiStartup, DesiBackToDesh and Bluescreen of Death).

1. 28,700 unique visitors
2. 48,500 page views
3. 109,000 hits (of these 25,000 were attributed to spiders and crawlers)

560 copies of the first 25 pages downloaded
170 copies of the table of content downloaded

880 visitors from Karachi
518 visitors from Lahore
230 visitors from Dubai

The rest distributed all over the world including places like Ripon, California, Hinckley, UK, Beamsville, Canada, Bombay, Singapore, Kualalumpur, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and ofcourse Islamabad, Pakistan.

Blue Screen Complete Edition - Free Download

Inspired by Cory and the Eastern Standard Tribe, the complete edition of the Blue Screen of Death is now available for a free download. As Cory said, Money is not a problem, Obscurity is

Cory Doctorow link: http://www.craphound.com/est/
Free Download pdf: http://bluescreen.alchemya.com/BSOD.pdf
Creative Common License link: http://creativecommons.org/

Update: December 04, 2006
My apologies for all the 404 that came up because I didn't update the link in time. It should work now. Just incase you still have an issue just go to the bluescreen home page, click on downloads and follow through to the end of the page. The free download link is immediately after the buy the book links.

The blue screen presentation on failure

The book presentation on new venture failure as presented at PASHA, Punjab IT Board, FAST ICS, Karachi University, LUMS, SZABIST, Hamdard University and others. Download here

I have had great fun delivering this in front of students, academics and practitioners and the act improves every time I do it.