Somerville Rodent Task Force - Tips for Rodent Prevention

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Maybe I'm the last to see this since it has apparently been on Youtube since last fall. But I looked and didn't see it here under the video or pest control tags. Just posting because it couldn't be cuter. (If it's a repeat, I'll delete)

Comments

[ron_newman]

I saw this on Universal Hub yesterday, and apparently it was on a bunch of TV news shows too. Not sure why it's suddenly getting all the attention this week when it was made back in October.

Thanks for posting it!

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Since I posted it here a few minutes ago, its views have gone from 500-something to 603. They deserve some mad props for this!

[marphod.livejournal.com]

At a guess, because the weather is warming up and the risk of new invasions are increasing.

youtube stats

[maffematician.livejournal.com]

If you view the video's page on youtube, next to the counter showing the number of views is a little icon of a graph. Click that, and you get a graph showing the # views over time, with annotations showing milestones such as the date when the page received its first referral from a given domain, or the date that the video was first embedded on a given domain.

Sometimes a milestone will signal a spike in traffic. Hint: the milestones are always placed, graphically, a bit later than their actual datetime. You'll see when you check this one.

The only clue to the recent spike in the last 36 hours, from 500 views to > 1000 views, is the UHub embed yesterday. So say you hadn't known about the UHub post previously - it would give you a starting point to look, and perhaps ask that person how this video came to their attention.

If you were that interested, that is.

Re: youtube stats

[somervillema311.livejournal.com]

I also posted the video on the Somerville311 Facebook page and I saw that a lot of people shared it or re-posted it. I'm sure that also helped it as well.

Re: youtube stats

[maffematician.livejournal.com]

On the Somerville311 page, I see you also linked to this news clip on channel 7.
http://www1.whdh.com/news/articles/local/12003845946888/somerville-officials-create-ad-to-help-prevent-rats/

That article is posted on 7's site around 11 PM on Monday night; maybe it aired on Monday's evening news. The article does not link to the original youtube vid and none of the comments do either, but in the hour after the article was posted, this person (http://twitter.com/BostonWeddingJP) tweets (http://twitter.com/BostonWeddingJP/status/50026324961673216) about the original youtube vid, which the admin on UHub quickly re-posts (http://www.universalhub.com/2011/rats-how-did-somerville-video-get-passed-oscar-tim), attributing it to the tweet.

I guess the rise in views over the last two days can be traced to 7's coverage on Monday, since this led to you posting it on facebook yesterday, and might have led to the tweet that was picked up by UHub. So far the vid has gone from 500 views in the first six months to 900 additional views in the last two days.

[anotherjen.livejournal.com]

That is insanely cute. Thanks for posting.

[m00n.livejournal.com]

<3 your icon :-)

[tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com]

that is the cutest pest-related psa i think i've ever seen.

[gee-tar.livejournal.com]

It looked like at one point near the end they were filming on Hall Ave. Now I'm feeling a little better about moving out as now I won't be attacked by 6-foot tall rats, or for you Princess Bride fans, rodents of unusual size :)

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Now I know what I want to be for Halloween this year!

[ron_newman]

Jimmy Del Ponte, one of those 6-foot rats, lives on Hall Avenue. I can't remember if he has an LJ account.. He's rrcrossing but I haven't seen him around here in a long time. He introduced himself here.

[josephineave.livejournal.com]

From now one, when potential employers Google him, the phrase:

Jimmy Del Ponte, one of those 6-foot rats


will come up.

[ron_newman]

Not yet, at least .... I wonder if Google indexes LJ comments?

[sunspiral.livejournal.com]

That was great!