In one of his latest posts on Micro Persuasion, Steve Rubel writes about the end of the “page view” metric as a tool to evaluate online media value. I think he’s right on the money. Technology is changing so fast that it’s going to be interesting to see how we evaluate things in coming years. He’s giving the page view about 4 more years of life.

Remember when everyone bragged about how many “hits” their website had? Well, actually there still are people bragging about it. Most of us know that it’s not a very good metric anymore. I guess pretty soon page views will go the same way.

In case you’re interested though, AgWired hit a couple of new milestones in November. We had over 103,000 page views.

And just so you know. We had over 258,000 hits.

Just to add a little extra to your thought process consider this too. I have over 3,600 pictures in my Flickr account. These are arranged in sets, mostly by event where they were taken. I’ve had almost 20,000 picture views in there. I can tell how many times each picture has been viewed too. They’re all tagged and public. So, when I take pictures while I’m out and about keep in mind that it may not just be the post on AgWired where people see the picture!

And we can’t forget YouTube can we? I’ve only just started working with it. I’ve got 4 videos in there but they’ve been viewed 900 times collectively.

Oh, wait. There’s one more thing. I just Googled for the keyword “AgWired” and got 61,100 results.

I think that’s enough measurement for one day.