The pie chart is ok to approximate the percentage of total, which would be difficult with the bar chart. That is why in the bar chart I just super-imposed labels showing the percentage.

Ultimately the graphic should be chosen to adequately display whatever information you want to focus on. In this instance, IMO, the bar charts (with the super-imposed labels) do a better job than the pie chart.

I don’t mind discussion about “how do we employ the blog such that it better supports the goals of CV as a whole?” at all (I welcome it!) My main concern is getting people to contribute. We can talk about how the blog should be till we are blue in the face, but we won’t have a blog unless we get more community members to write posts. How to promote the blog, integrate it with the main Q/A site, decide what should we write about, etc. we can figure that out along the way IMO.

However, I’m not sure about the underlying assumptions. Looking at how many views the blog has gotten, noticing that most come from outside of CV, and suggesting that the blog be promoted more elsewhere, assumes (to my mind) that the blog is viewed as independent of (or perhaps in parallel to) the main site, rather than integrated with it. Is that the vision we have of the role of the blog here? Is that what people want? I’m fine with it, if that is what people want, but I do wonder if that is the best role for the blog. The rejoinder would be, ‘why not have a blog anywhere–why have it connected to CV?’ It seems to me that we need to figure out a role for the blog that integrates it with the main site. That means that it would probably always play second fiddle, but I’m OK with that. My question is, how do we employ the blog such that it better supports the goals of CV as a whole?

I don’t mean to be too critical. This was clearly an enormous amount of work, is very informative, and helps move the conversation. There are many reasons why it is quite good.