Big Shiba

No doubt about it, the internet is plagued with horrible spelling. (I admit I’ve probably contributed to this quite a bit!) I’m happy to report that Blogthings users are super spellers.

I recently wrote How’s Your Spelling? - which covers some of the most commonly misspelled words. On average, Blogthings users got 8.15 out of 10 questions right. I’d say this is pretty darn respectable.

Unsurprisingly, the average posted score on blogs was 9.39 out of 10 questions right. I guess even admitting your spelling is less than perfect is embarrassing for some bloggers!

Starting today, you can post Blogthings Quizzes automatically to Myspace.

Some other sites have had this feature for a while, but it was not officially supported by Myspace. We like to play by the rules, so we waited until Myspace gave us a way of doing this.

Any time you take a quiz, look for the button on the results page that says Add to Myspace. Just click on it, and you’re on your way to sharing the quiz you just took with your Myspace friends.

Want to try out this feature? Take one of our newest quizzes to get started.

Probably not, but so far we’re 1 for 1! Fred Thompson was generally in the bottom three for our visitors when they took the Who Should You Vote For? quiz that we just launched yesterday. So it’s not that surprising that Fred was not popular enough to stay in the race. (And as a result, he has been removed from our quiz.)

Who would Blogthings visitors elect as president? Well, if they voted their hearts, early results suggest it would be Dennis Kucinich or Barack Obama. Who wouldn’t be president? For Blogthings visitors, it’s pretty clearly Mitt Romney.

Some people have pointed out that there was a problem with the Logical Intelligence scoring for our Quick and Dirty IQ Test. It’s now been fixed, and you will get an accurate score for the logic section. Thanks to everyone who let us know about this problem.

Like Fanta soda and David Hasselhoff, Blogthings is most popular outside the United States.

Okay, that’s not exactly true. 66% of our traffic (measured in unique sessions) comes from the US. But if you measure visitors truly in terms of how much time they spend on our site, Americans are just about average. And that means over 100 nations bring us visitors who spend more time taking Blogthings than Americans do.

So where do our long lingering visitors come from? It’s fairly mixed. People from beachy, temperate places seem to enjoy hanging out at Blogthings… and the same can be true about people from some of the coldest areas in the world. We also have some long visits from people in countries that are predominantly Muslim.

Who Spends the Most Time at Blogthings (broken down by continent)

1. Africa
2. Asia
3. Oceania
4. Europe
5. Americas

Who Spends the Most Time at Blogthings (broken down by country)

1. Brunei
2. Trinidad and Tobago
3. Pakistan
4. Bangladesh
5. Norway

Who Spends the Most Time at Blogthings (broken down by US State)

1. Alaska
2. Idaho
3. Wyoming
4. New Mexico
5. Hawaii

Who Spends the Most Time at Blogthings (broken down by European country)

1. Norway
2. Iceland
3. Macedonia
4. Estonia
5. Malta

If you ever saw our old Big Shiba site, it was awfully boring. It turns out that it’s difficult to create any sort of interesting corporate site when you already work full time on your business.

So we thought we’d give WordPress a try. And as usual with WordPress, it’s easy and impressive.

Big Shiba is a small publishing company based in Colorado. You may know us through our site Blogthings, especially if you take online quizzes. And if you haven’t heard of Blogthings, you should definitely check it out. We’ve got over 500 original personality quizzes and a loyal following.