Our first weekend saw about 7,000 unique visits over Saturday and Sunday, bringing 10Questions.com to a total of nearly 24,000 since launch. Among our co-sponsors, the weekend saw big news portals like MSNBC and the New York Times move up in their impact on traffic compared to more partisan blog sites.
The number of video questions submitted rose to 47, and we went past 17,700 votes cast by 4,600 individual participants. That means, roughly speaking, if you count the two days of the weekend like one weekday, we’re still on a pace of seeing about 4,000-5,000 new votes a day and about 1,100 to 1,200 new voters joining in each day. We’ll see if those trends continue this week.
One other useful development: we’ve now reached the point where the site’s software is generating an “overlooked” column on the home page of video questions that have been least voted upon. This happens dynamically as new video questions come in and the software notices a large enough gap in attention between old and new ones. This is good because it will help keep the mix of choices lively for both new users and folks who have already voted on the most active videos. Of course, if you want to find new videos, just click on the “NEW” tab to get to the freshest submissions.
There are now 23 days left in Round One. While voting on the questions has been very strong and cross-partisan, there’s definitely still plenty of time for people to post more video questions. It’s still early enough for them to get noticed and go all the way to the top.
We have also introduced a “New Video” RSS feed that can help visitors keep track of videos as they’re added. It’s http://feeds.feedburner.com/10questionsNewVideoFeed and can be found linked off the bottom of the main page.
Several of our co-sponsors chimed in with new posts, including:
Crooks and Liars made sure to remind their audience to get involved with an Open Thread post: http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/10/20/open-thread-draft/
Hugh Hewitt posted an update, noting that, “Many interesting questions are up and more coming in. Candidate and staff should be using this site for debate prep.” http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/blog/g/1be73533-6957-49e4-a546-69a52a000b72
PoliticsTV jumped in with this: http://www.politicstv.com/blog/?p=3558
Racialicious gave a push to a question about whether American Indian mascots should be banned: http://www.racialicious.com/2007/10/22/10-questions-should-we-ban-american-indian-mascots/ Other blogs concerned with American Indian rights seems to be chiming in, like: Bad Eagle: http://badeagledotorg.blogspot.com/
And the AIDG Blog (Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group) listed 10Questions as Link of the Day: http://www.aidg.org/component/option,com_jd-wp/Itemid,34/p,814/