Thursday, September 17, 2009
First local hit
Over the 4.5 years I've been writing this, I've been watching the SiteMeter fairly steadily, and noticed some patterns in the handful of daily hits this blog receives. Unsurprisingly, the vast majority of hits come to the one and only entry that contains some "artistic nudity" in the form of the Goddess of Oil statue. I don't know what those people expect, but they're probably not getting it! Many of those hits come from India for some unknown reason. The second most common link is via the phrase "explanatory sentence", because Polistra often writes about "self-explanatory sentences". I've tried to put caveats in those entries so foreigners who are learning English won't be confused.
Aside from those two, the rest are random but mainly understandable. Jerry Winkelman gets a few hits lately, which tells me that he must be starting up another dubious enterprise. A few links come in via my comments at Front Porch Republic. These are the only readers who appear to stop for a few minutes and actually read what I've written. I do appreciate that. And when I mention a member of Congress, a link from house.gov tends to show up, presumably a constant semi-robotic opinion checking process.
Oddly, I've never seen a hit from a URL in Spokane ... until today when someone at Gonzaga looked at my post on Prop 71. This seems odd because the blog profile clearly gives my location as Spokane, and I write often about local matters. You'd think the city govt would run an occasional "blogsweep" to get a sense of positive vs negative opinions, but they don't. ¶ 8:11 AM
Aside from those two, the rest are random but mainly understandable. Jerry Winkelman gets a few hits lately, which tells me that he must be starting up another dubious enterprise. A few links come in via my comments at Front Porch Republic. These are the only readers who appear to stop for a few minutes and actually read what I've written. I do appreciate that. And when I mention a member of Congress, a link from house.gov tends to show up, presumably a constant semi-robotic opinion checking process.
Oddly, I've never seen a hit from a URL in Spokane ... until today when someone at Gonzaga looked at my post on Prop 71. This seems odd because the blog profile clearly gives my location as Spokane, and I write often about local matters. You'd think the city govt would run an occasional "blogsweep" to get a sense of positive vs negative opinions, but they don't. ¶ 8:11 AM
