Should we switch to Substack?

There are still important things that we, in the actual trade in electronics reuse and recycling, can share. But if Google is de-platforming its own blogspot platform, I have to consider moving this entire discussion to Substack.

The risk is that we lose the 30-55 average blogspot views (way down from 2015) and have an unviewed substack. Substack is not showing up in my page 1 Google searches, there's probably a riff (maybe Google is "protecting" blogspot while another wing of the office is killing it?)

And here is your reward for reading this.

Reused solar panels will be tagged with these Avery Labelled stickers, with OBADA.io blockchain tracked QR codes, which Africans can scan with their mobile phones to upload photos - which have GPS location - proving it is NOT IN AGBOGBLOSHIE.

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Just to add to the discussion about Google Analytics and Referral / indexing, it has been a couple of years since I actually checked Google Analytics for the Good Point Ideas Blog.  Something interesting.

After a long decline since 2015 and the peak 2012 years, there was a surprising uptake of older blogs in the past five years. I hadn't noticed since I was watching the current blogs, which were declining from 55 average to 35 in recent years.

But look at the last few years for total views of all blogs.

There are a surprising number of clicks on older blogs I had not noticed.  

And yet more surprising is a new #1 source of interest... Hong Kong.

Over the years the top 5 sources of views (excluding Russian bots) have been US, UK, Canada, Germany and Singapore (Sg was a big reader in the early years of the blog, probably because I posted about it often as a Tech Sector "Resource Curse" opposite economy).

Then from out of nowhere, Hong Kong became the top viewer of this blog. I've got some theories, and admittedly the denominator is shrinking so just a few stubborn readers might account for a lot more of the percentage. 

In any case, blogs about blogging are the worst / least interesting. Need to stick to more important topics, like raw material extraction subsidies and the importance of lifespan of devices once they are manufactured. 

And of course... Africa!

I was told by my Carleton College Class of 1984 international relations professor Roy Grow that while people were focused on competition with Japan, that China was going to explode in a couple of decades into an economic juggernaut.

At that time, China was poorer than Africa is today.

So I am assuming that Africa is the most important next economic story.