Off Topic! - Web Analytics

I'm going way off topic here... but this has been bugging me for a while so I thought I do a post on it.  Yesterday I posted a link on twitter to my Veer Documentary post using bit.ly.  According to bit.ly, by the end of the day (and after two RTs) I had 39 clicks on the link, AKA 39 visits to my blog.



But then this morning, I check my google analytics, and it says I only had 10 visitors to my site for the whole day, from all sources.

So whether google analytics is counting the bit.ly hits as twitter referrals, or direct traffic, or something else, it's clearly way off.  I guess it's possible that bit.ly is overcounting, but I'd guess the true number is closer to bit.lys considering the combined number of followers for myself, and the two accounts that RT'd the link is 2400.  This article (Is Twitter Sending You 500% to 1600% More Traffic Than You Might Think?) addresses the exact same problem, and the author definitely has a better grasp on the underlying issues than I do... but still can't explain the difference.  

Storm Playoffs

Sorry for the lack of posts lately, I've been busy with Storm playoffs.  Here's a couple of the videos that I've been working on.

Random note about this first one... this is the first time I've found youtubes 'annotations' to be useful, I always just thought they were annoying and have never really had a use for them until this. (they pop up at :47)

Storm History Documentary

All 6 parts of my Seattle Storm History Documentary are now up on the Storms website, and on youtube.  I'm including the last 2 parts here since they both address the controversy surrounding the sale of the team and possible relocation to Oklakoma City.

It's been really fun putting together these videos, mostly because Storm fans are SO responsive to the videos as they've played in-arena throughout the season.  As a videographer/ filmmaker, it's not often you get an audience that's so reactive and engaged as the Storm fans have been with these videos, so it's really been fun.

Volume 5 - 2005-2007 - The Team is Sold



Volume 6 - 2008 - Force 10 Buys the Team

Game Day with Swin Cash

This is is is a behind the scenes look at a game day with 2009 All Star Game MVP Swin Cash.  It's kind of ironic that the first line is "I'll always be an East Coast girl..." seeing as she just won the All Star MVP award playing for the WEST!  We shot this at the June 26th game vs LA, Erik and I rode with Swin to the game while interviewing her.  It was a really short ride, so we didn't get nearly as much interview time as we would've liked but we got enough.  We also had a boom mic with us for this game, so we were able to get some good audio from Coach Agler in during timeouts and some other on-court audio from the players.  I didn't end up using that much of it here, but I'm sure I'll be using it in other videos in the future. (Go to youtube to watch it in HD... or at least what youtube considers HD)



Some behind the scenes photos of our behind the scenes video shoot - photos by Neilson Eney

Capitol Hill Block Party 2009

UPDATE - This video is also now up on CHS

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