Due terzi compiuti

Pensieri e esperienze di un’anatra selvaggia di ottanta e un anni.

Avram Miller by the sea
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587 post pubblicati dal 2006

Categoria: Blogging

  • Video di Avram Goes

    My blog posts are now available as short videos on my new YouTube channel. You can subscribe here. I will also put a link on blog posts for which I have created videos. I hope you enjoy the new format. Here is an example:

    My primary form of communication has been writing blog posts, along with posts on social media such as Facebook and LinkedIn. Yet I myself consume a lot of video from YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram.

    It is a bit strange, because during the majority of my career I often gave speeches, sometimes to audiences of over a thousand people. Most of those were never recorded, although a few were, such as my testimony to Congress regarding the development of HDTV and interviews on news shows.

    Over the last 20 years, I have done a number of video interviews, especially around the time of the publishing of my book, Il volo di un’anatra selvaggia.

    I still give talks, but not often. For instance, I gave a speech at the World Business Forum, which was held in Milan in November 2025.

    I am really comfortable speaking and love having an audience, especially one that can ask me questions. But when I have tried to make videos on my own, they are really awful. I am stilted and have no energy. I need a live audience — but perhaps one of the AIs can simulate this for me.

    However, I have now found an easy way to create videos from my blog posts using NotebookLM’s video generation capability.

    Next, I intend to create a clone of my voice to replace the voice that NotebookLM uses.

    I would be grateful for your comments. Do you think the videos do a good job of capturing what I wrote on my blog? Do you prefer the video or the written blog? Do you think using a clone of my own voice would make this more interesting?

  • Una richiesta di favore

    Scrivo questo blog dal 2007. Sono presenti circa 570 post con 430.000 parole, che equivalgono a circa cinque libri.

    Non ho mai fatto molto sforzo per far leggere il libro a qualcuno. E questo è una cosa strana da ammettere, perché chiaramente voglio che la gente lo legga. Altrimenti, avrei semplicemente tenuto un diario.

    Questa settimana finalmente mi sono seduto e ho guardato i numeri con attenzione.

    Cosa ho trovato

    Per anni ho creduto di avere circa quindicicento iscritti. Invece non era così. 640 di voi ricevono questi post via e-mail. Altri 500 o così seguono il blog tramite un'app per WordPress e non ricevono affatto alcuna e-mail. E altre 700 si sono iscritte e hanno ricevuto un link di conferma che non hanno mai cliccato e da allora sono rimaste in un limbo, alcune per anni, probabilmente chiedendosi perché abbia smesso di scrivere.

    Molti di voi mi hanno detto esattamente questo. Vi sono iscritto e non ho mai ricevuto alcuna risposta da parte vostra. Mi dispiace. Non sapevo e il pannello di controllo mi diceva sempre che tutto andava bene.

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  • Thanks for the views all 50,000 of them

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    I  now have  50,000 views of my post on TwoThirds Done, the blog that I started eight years ago, when I turned sixty.  Figuring that it might take two minutes a blog post, it would seem that some seventy days were consumed by readers withthese posts.  I have posted 240 times. I probably takes me on average about three hours to write a post. So I have spent about thirty day in composing the posts.  I obviously need to get my readership up.  I also have 440 subscribers.  These people get a notification when I make a new post. A small number of them seem to actually go to my blog to read the post.   My readership has been trending up which is of course a good thing.
    Blogging was actually not really about number of readers.  It was more about learning to express myself in a concise way.    My biggest disappointment is in how few comments I get.  So far, I have only received  461 comments which is about two comments a post.
    Anyway, if you are reading this, I thank you.
    avram

  • To my subscribers

    I started this blog almost eight years ago when I turned sixty years old.  My average number of visits per day has gone from ten to fourty during that time.  The total number of views is now over 45,000.  This does not count those that subscribe to this blog.  Since the way I set up the email subscriptions provides the complete post, there is no need for a subscriber to go to my site.  But this also means, I do not actually know if the blog post was read.  I am about to change that. Now you will only get a summary and will have to go to my blog to read the full post.

    It took my seven years to get about a hundred subscribers. In the last month or so, I have more than doubled the number of subscribers and have no idea why.  Many of you do not seem to be the kind of reader I would expect.  I would love to hear from you as to why you subscribed.  I think that something either changed with WordPress  or perhaps it was my Wikipedia entry that is driving new people to my site where they subscribe.  Frankly, it feels kind of strange.