Death and Rebirth (no, not that one) Revisited
Edit 25 March 2009, 1:30pm:
I keep missing deadlines. I keep promising columns and features and analysis. I hate posting excuses.
I’m still knuckle-deep in data entry (kind of like knee-deep, but with a computer keyboard. eh, it’s a forced metaphor) and likely won’t have numbers until this evening. On top of that, its week 13 (end of winter quarter) so I need to compile the quarterly charts and all that fun stuff with pie charts and line graphs and me reading *way* too much into my little constructs.
Here’s what’s doin’:
- I will post the next weeks’ charts (this weeks, actually: week ending 29 March) by 8am on Monday if it kills me.
- That post for 8am Monday will be the Comics 500. Note the not-so-subtle change there.
- I will continue to break out and post Manga charts, ‘cause that is the point of the exercise, but now we can place online sales of manga within the larger context.
- This is going to require some retooling of the ‘sheets and under-the-hood, behind-the-scenes work. By ‘some’ I mean ‘lots’. It also means abandoning some historical data, and I really should have thought of this with the change of the calendar year since a lot of folks jones for that round-even-numbers bit. Screw the calendar. …that would have been nice but this is a really good idea and I’m going to start doing it now.
- The retailing column I promised is still coming; I’m busy actually working retail and right now it is rough for reasons we all know about though my employer would likely prefer I not share specifics — anyway, it’s exhausting and I’ve barely found time to blog, let alone read comics.
- The statistics porn [2009 Q1(Winter) Charts] we all know and love will post as soon as I’m able, but don’t expect them next week. Or the week after.
- 8am Monday if it kills me.
original post follows:
I’m going to attempt a new posting schedule starting next week;the first upshot of the effort (and the most noticeable change) is the breakup of the usual suite of reports — the Manga 500, New Releases & Preorders, Emerging Trends Report, and the weekly summary will no longer be posted as a block.
The Manga 500 — the longest and most complete of the weekly reports — is also actually the easiest to compile (once the requisite mountain of data entry is accomplished, of course) and so instead of making you wait, I’ll just rush that out. Mmmm… numbers… fresh from the red-hot spreadsheet.
That’s what I did today. Managed to slip that report in during my lunch break. Took a half-hour.
(and the Executive Summary email newsletter went out at the same time. Yes, there are benefits to subscribing.)
Not that the other reports are all that difficult, but there is a lot of block-selecting and the sorting and the formatting, oi, so I’ll take an extra day before committing those to electronic print.
And then with the commentary: After living with the numbers for a couple of days I’ll see about attempting some analysis, which I am hopeful I will be able to post weekly (& on Wednesdays, before the USA Today and NYT charts come out.)
And then we’ll see what else I have time for.
It’s the First Day of Spring. I feel it is time for a change.
And I’ve a lot of writing (& data entry) to do before Monday. Excuse me…
