How do you find out you haven't been paying much attention to your blog of late?

You find that your comment junk box holds 8999 trash comments. Ouch...it has been a long couple of years hasn't it.

Posted by prolurkr at 01:23 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Comments from all non-spammers welcome

Comments are back on for prolurkr, but only for the last three months of available posts.  If you want to comment on anything older than April 2007 you will need to email me and I will add the comment...once I figure out how to do that.  LOL

Posted by prolurkr at 03:53 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Reworking toward a goal

Part of the additions to the prolurkrverse are up and running.  Check out CommonplaceBook. CommonplaceBook is an open site, and will eventually be indexed as well.  Comments and trackbacks are welcome.

Resingled.info is also up and running, though I am waiting for feedback on a registration check. I will be sending out invitations to people who might be interested...no obligation just information. If you want an invitation and don't get one in the next 48 hours or so, let me know.  Resingled allows for comments but not trackbacks, and it won't be indexed...it's a locked down site...or at least that is the plan.

Posted by prolurkr at 03:02 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Upcoming changes to the prolurkrverse

I am beginning the process of spiffing things up around here. Professional-Lurker has taken a beating, a quiet beating to be sure, over the last year. Now that I am working my way back to regular posting, I have a few ideas to add to the site's online presence.

Once I get the software bugs worked out I will be adding four new sites. First, is a personal chronicle at resingled.info.  The site will be password protected...and if I know you, and you want to be included please let me know.

Second, is commonplacebook.info, as the name implies this site will be my online commonplacebook for collecting quoted sections from readings...things I find interesting.

Third and fourth, are two subdomains that will hold the Adolescents and Teens Online Bibliography and Weblog and Blog Bibliography both of which are currently woefully out of date.  I'm trying to figure out if I can set-up various sorts in MediaWiki - if you know how to manipulate this program I would love to talk to you - or if I will have to use blogging software to get the output I want.  I know a Wiki would be easiest to use but I hate the output I see from most of them...if it can't be sorted so it looks like a bibliography I don't want to use it.  Once a decision is made and the software is installed, and working then I will upload, update, and announce the availability of the new bibliographies.

Last but certainly not least, once a stable version of Movable Type's new release (4.01) is available I will be updating my software on this site and on loisscheidt.com.  When that upgrade is completed, and working, I plan to again allow comments and trackbacks on this site.  We shall see how it goes.

Obviously this work will be done in between writing...which has to be my first priority.  Watch for updates on both the site and my writing.

Posted by prolurkr at 01:37 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Trackback and comments are currently disabled

Due to a huge hit of trackback spam on this site, I have disabled comments and trackbacks until I get time to upgrade the software and make some serious changes to the operating environment. I apologize for the inconvenience and hopefully it won't take too long to get the changes made...until then if you have a comment let me know via email.

Of course having said all that, it does make the whole concept of blog "community" interesting when non-community members hijack community resources for selfish uses.  It's sort of like having your neighbor jack into you cable system and then get mad at you when the cable company shuts both of you off.  LOL 

Oh well, there is nothing that has been invented in this world has not been used for "unintended purposes" with negative consequences.

p.s.  Unlike my previous host LunarPages , my current host DreamHost was polite enough to tell me there was a problem and ask me to fix it before they took punitive action.

Related posts: 

My last interaction with LunarPages (rant warning)

Prolurker is back from LunarPages hell (long ranting post warning)

Things I learned while moving two websites to a new host

Moving loisscheidt.com and professional-lurker.com

Posted by prolurkr at 09:32 AM | TrackBack

Movable Type 3.3

Apparently it is upgrade time again.  *sigh*  I know, I know it's a good thing but gezzz the chance of messing something up is to high.  Oh well, I will probably work on this in a week or so...and then I too can be using the latest and greatest, Movable Type 3.3.

Posted by prolurkr at 05:50 PM | TrackBack

Little time for blogging

It's that time of the semester where everything starts closing in...Are all the labs written and posted? Is grading up to date? You know those kind of things. Well this semester it is worse than usual since I will be leaving, in May, during finals week and won't be back until the middle June.

All of this is leading to my telling you that time between posts will be increasing from now, well last week actually, until the sometime at the end of June. Hang with me because interesting posts on blogs and grad school are in the making, I have a list of stuff I want to talk about that I will be using after quals is done.

What I have to do between now and May 7, in no particular order (italics denotes future dates):

• Finish grading for the semester.
  • Completed May 2, 2006..
• Post grades for the semester to the Registrar.
  • Completed May 7, 2006.
• Clean out the last of the stuff in my office, my fellowship will be over.
  • Completed April 25, 2006.
• Write my final report on my fellowship.
  • I've delayed this paper until after May 9 - or when most everything else is done - as it is not actually due until after the fellowship ends.
• Write a 3-page abstract for an edited collection, this includes completing the library research that leads to the abstract.
  • Completed and passed on to a colleague for comment prior to submission, April 24, 2006. 
  • Submitted April 28, 2006.
• Write a short abstract for a conference.
  • Written and submitted April 10, 2006.
• Write a peer review for a journal.
  • Written and submitted April 10, 2006.
• Assist BROG in finalizing our Sunbelt presentation.
  • Completed April 24, 2006.
  • Presented April 28, 2006.
• Get my house in enough order that I can leave hubby alone with the critters without feeling worse about it than I already do because I'm running out on them.
  • Completed May 2, 2006.
• Finalize stuff on the business end of my family farm so that planting can take place this spring.
  • Basically in place as of April 18, 2006. At least I hope this is all of it.
• Get tax stuff done.
  • Completed April 23, 2006.
• Get stuff ready to go to CO - including finalizing routes and reservations while enroute, and packing, among other things.
  • Completed May 3, 2006.
• Revise my Annual Review paperwork based on comments.
  • First revision completed April 13, 2006. Final revision completed April 20, 2006.
• Chair my Annual Review meeting.
  • Completed April 20, 2006. Now to send it around to all the committee members for signatures.
• Get the car checked over before it and I do roughly 2650 miles of driving.
  • Completed April 14, 2006.

Posted by prolurkr at 03:30 PM

If trackback = 0, don’t print “TrackBack (0)” in the post footer

Every time I post a new entry from RocketPost I double-check it in a browser window. You know weirdness can happen, especially when you post material copied from somewhere else or add pictures. In truth, major weirdness can happen with the CFP's in particular.

Well since I turned off trackbacks, I have to admit that the footer on the posts is bugging me. I have to find out if there is a way, I'm almost sure there is one, to set the "TrackBack (0)" off when trackback is equal to zero. In other words, when there are no trackbacks there is no mention of them in the footer. Of course, if there are trackbacks recorded I want to keep that information with the post. What can I say I'm a blog researcher...more information is a good thing but not at the expense of a smooth flowing design. LOL The scholar and the artist at war again.

Posted by prolurkr at 09:37 PM | TrackBack

News - I’m disappearing for a month

Hubby and I have made a pretty big decision, and it looks like I will be going away for most of May and into June to finish writing my qualifying paper. I need to just hole-up and do it without other distractions, so it gets done quickly.

We've decided I am off to Colorado to hangout in a cabin or house on the side of a mountain and write. The current plan is for me to head west to International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry at University of Illinois May 4-6, then on the 7th I begin a couple of days drive to Southwestern Colorado. I will be gone into either early or mid-June, we will work out the date later today. Total driving distance 1430 from home to Durango CO.

While I have said there are a couple of things the space must have - a covered porch or deck so I can work outside when the weather is nice, and a working fireplace/stove with wood - one thing I have not said I need is high-speed internet. In truth I plan to leave the internet behind; I can do email, at the public library, one day a week when I head into town to get groceries. I plan on writing trip posts and taking pictures in-between postings, but unlike my usual practice of at least one post per day, this will be mass upload probably on a single day.

Right now I am looking at a number of cabins/houses in the 4-Corners area - mostly around Pagosa Springs and Durango - and I hope to make a decision later today. I found a great place, see the picture that accompanies this post, but totally whimped out when I was told that at this elevation the house might still have snow in early May and the only access then would be by snowmobile, which the owner was more than willing to lend me. But even if no snow was present the Forest Service road that takes you up the mountain does not sound compatible with my Honda Insight. *sigh* Love the idea of spending time at this place but probably not until hubby is with me and we can drive his diesel pickup. If you have access to an appropriate vehicle, you can rent them of course, then check out the main website for Vallecito Lake Durango Mountain Meadow Home. I think it is a great remote place to spend some time away...just too remote for a solo trip in May 2006.

Posted by prolurkr at 09:16 AM | TrackBack

Status of Trackback on Professional-Lurker

I like the concept of trackback between blogs. Allowing readers and writers to see how content is being used is important. However I think that the technology currently used, at least in Movable Type, is flawed and the system is abused. First, trackbacks are often not discovered by the software. I can't explain this, maybe someone with more technical competence than I have can comment. I do know that I routinely find sites where prolurkr posts are cited but the trackback wasn't completed. Second, the system is abused. No need to say much about spam...it's pretty much been said already.

I've been thinking about the issue of trackback on prolurkr for some time. As I have said previously, A question to Movable Type users, the blog has not registered a "non-recursive or recursive trackback registered since November 2005." I know this is not an accurate reflection of prolurkr citation because I see the footprints in my referer logs and in my searches. So I think today is a good day to decide to turnoff trackback. I would like to say this is a temporary fix but I don't think that is true. My impression is that trackback may be fixed at some point down the road, but also may not. So I'm adopting a wait and see attitude on the technology.

Posted by prolurkr at 07:45 AM | TrackBack

The searches prolurker turns up in *shaking my head*

I am amazed by the search strategies some folks seem to use to find things online. I often thing random pages might be as good at provide answers for some of these queries. This sample is from the last three hours.

1. Oil manager guest book for 2006/2007 include email address
2. A sample dissertation problem statement on urbanization necessary for Internet diffusion in a country
3. California teen scholarship pagent tips (misspelling in original)
4. Professional dive jobs in Hawaii and the pay scale

Plus there are three different vanity searches.

None of these searches have any quotation marks in them so the results are going to have a very high noise ratio. LOL Of which prolurker is part of the noise, since all of these searches take folks to large archive pages which will not provide them with useful information related to their searches. *sigh*

Though I do have to admit it is an interesting mix of topics.

Possible searches that might yield better results:

1. "Oil manager" "guest book" 2006 2007 include "email address" (kind of hard to propose an alternative when I have no idea what this person is really looking for. LOL)
2. "dissertation problem statement" urbanization "internet diffusion"
3. California "teen scholarship pageant" tips
4. "professional dive jobs" Hawaii "pay scale"

When I am using a long search string I try to put something in quotes just to narrow down the search and keep me out of less than useful blog archives.

Posted by prolurkr at 06:48 PM | TrackBack

Contact email addys

Ok as Anya points out in her recent comment, I didn't have an email addy listed for the blog. I could give lots of technical sounding weblog security reasons why this was so but well they just wouldn't be the reason why I didn't list an email addy. In fact I didn't do so because it never actually occurred to me, in the beginning that is, that anyone I didn't already know would want to email me. Ok so I've lived a bit more and learned a ton in the last two years. So per Anya's request I now have a "Contact me" under the About section of the sidebar.

Oh and if you get desperate you can also find one on my webpage. They should both be working Anya, though the university one has been a bit flaky of late.

Posted by prolurkr at 10:02 AM | Comments (1) | TrackBack

This is a test...this is only a test of the AdSense system

I've had some pretty long debates with myself about the value and potential distractions if advertising were added to prolurker. On some levels, it seems too gauche to try to make money from an academic site. However, as the last few months have certainly shown, academic sites cost money too.

Today when I saw Robin Hamman's post about his AdSense use on Cybersoc blog, I had to take notice. Robin reports that his AdSense revenues pay for his hosting services, nice idea. Though, how can ads like this one, found on Cybersoc today, for the London School of Journalism do anything but make a site look more academic.

So after much debate and some visual stimuli from Cybersoc, I have decided to give Google AdSense a try. The ads will be loading on the right sidebar below the awards section. If this doesn't work out or I don't like the look they will be leaving...with announcement of course. I like to leave design footprints on the blog so I and others know what I was up to when I made changes.

Posted by prolurkr at 05:22 PM | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Prolurker is back from LunarPages hell (long ranting post warning)

This has been a fairly long and annoying week. It all started last Friday night when I finally, after getting prolurker settled in at it's new host LunarPages, updated Mint. That was simple and straightforward I just like to have some extra time in case something goes astray when I work on the websites. Well, come Saturday morning I found that Mint was not working correctly. Saturday I was busy, so I didn't mess with it. I have lots of stats for the blog so missing this one program was not a problem. But come Sunday morning and I decided to figure out what was causing the problem.

I worked with Mint for quite a while and as part of that process did a rebuild on the indexes of the blog. Interestingly enough, my admin page locked up during the rebuild, and I assumed it was a satellite issue. Little did I know. About half an hour later, I decided to try the rebuild again after rebooting the modem and my computer, but went ahead and did a full rebuild this time and again my page locked up. So I went to work on other things. Then about an hour later, I get an e-mail from LunarPages that my mt.cgi script had been disabled. See the following:

The following ticket has been created by a member of our staff for you
Your question's details:
============= Title: ==============
Script Disabled on your account

============== Message: ==============
Hi,

Your script moveabletype was causing extremely high processing on sadar server:

profe9 professional-lurker.com 11.45 6.23 0.0
Top Process %CPU 92.8 /usr/bin/perl -w mt.cgi
Top Process %CPU 86.2 /usr/bin/perl -w mt.cgi
Top Process %CPU 86.0 /usr/bin/perl -w mt.cgi

This also crashed the server earlier. As such, the script has been chowned to root with 000 file permissions. You may not use this script again as %92 top processing is an unacceptable level on a shared server, affecting load and all other accounts on the server. I'd suggest you to move to Wordpress. Please let us know, and we can remove this script for you.

We appreciate your understanding in this matter.

Thanks.
--
Kind Regards,
Tomas Olivares
Junior System Administrator - System Administrator Team

Ok well that's a fine how do you do, especially since my site was totally ftp'd in from my old host and nothing, beyond the Mint, program had changed. Neither they or my previous host had given me any warning that there had been a problem. LunarPages just shut me off.

So that began a very interesting exchange. I called customer service, LunarPages is noted as having excellent customer service, but you won't be able to tell by my experience. I was told I would have to respond to the email I couldn't "talk" to anyone about what was happening. You have the full email text above, do you see anywhere it says I HAVE to respond to the email. I mentioned to the person on the other end of the phone that it sounded like they didn't want my business and he responded that they definitely did want to resolve the issue and continue our relationship. Yeah right. As a parting comment the customer service person said I would be REQUIRED to move to Wordpress...interesting that they think they can tell me what system to use with no explanation or consideration...just do it. *snapping my fingers* Do it NOW!

I responded to their email that as the problem was running a full rebuild and I would simply not be doing that again. It's rarely required I just ran one to make sure I had full saturation across the website. Then 48 hours later I get this email answer:

This is an automated message to advise you that a technician has responded to your question. You can view this response and track the progress of your inquiry online at:

http://helpdesk.lunarpages.com/view.php?ticketref=4814-YUJX-5858&pass=b48194be

You can also reply to this e-mail.

Ticket Ref : 4814-YUJX-5858
Ticket Subject : Script Disabled on your account

Reply:
Hello,

I am sorry, but due to the server crashing from this script being run, we cannot enable it again for you.

To ensure the safety of the accounts on the server, the only way we could host this for you would be on a dedicated server.

I'm sorry for the inconvenience, I'm sure this wasn't the answer you were hoping for, but we have to do what is in the best interest of everyone on the server. I hope you understand.

Although it didn't crash the server, on previous days, the script had also been over the limit of resources allowed, by 2 or 3 times.

If you would like to upgrade, please let us know and we can upgrade you to a dedicated server.

If you would like to leave, that is also an option. We can issue you a pro-rated refund.

--
Best Regards,
Stephan Hughson

A DEDICATED SERVER, gezzz there is no way my little blog needs a dedicated server. This is just insane. Note that they are saying that there were multiple problems before they decided to shut me off...would have been nice if they had bothered to tell me about that.

So after much discussion with my technical advisory crew I decided to move the site to another host, DreamHost. But I was curious, for my own understanding, to know what the limit was that the site had exceeded. Curious so I would know what to expect at my new site. You are gonna love this response:

Hi,


There is actually no set limit. It all depends on the duration and generally anything above 9.0 would be high on the shared servers.
--
Best Regards,
Peter Cathaseema
JSA I ­ System Admin Team

So let me get this straight, on several occasions I had exceed the limit where there is no set limit. Wonderful circular thinking but someone needs to explain to me how you exceed a non-limit and do it repeatedly...I mean come on how do they even know you have exceeded the limit if they don't even know what the limit is? And how do you hang your hat on the decision if you can't even explain it with any reasonable clarity.

Well this morning a friend worked to unpack my full backup from the LunarPages site and he jiggled with the site to get it both up and running and doing so efficiently. Would you believe that a simple change from the default Berkeley database to MySQL seems to have fixed the processing time problem. Probably explains why other much larger blogs can run on MT and be hosted by LunarPages. Oh well apparently their "top notch" customer service and technical staff couldn't figure that one out for themselves.

In truth I have not been impressed with their tech support from the beginning. See Things I learned while moving two websites to a new host for my previous comments on this service. So my advise is avoid LunarPages...customer service to me is not just having people who answer the phone but who can help you resolve a problem to a mutually satisfactory conclusion, if possible. And if it's not possible they can first try, and second at least not be condescending about it. Gezzz.

Now if I can just get Mint working properly.

Posted by prolurkr at 11:17 AM | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Changes on sidebar links and other MT stuff

I have completely reworked the links to my papers and presentations so that links to my solo works are available on loisscheidt.com, with one exception. This includes relocating bibliographies to the name site. These will now all be persistent links. I apologize for any confusion these changes may have made.

I am currently working on, or playing with depending on your perspective, a way to create a dynamic CV in Movable Type. If anyone is interesting in helping please let me know.

Posted by prolurkr at 02:28 PM | TrackBack

A changing perspective on what to add to the blog

It's interesting to have been offline this long. One of the things I did, while the blog was down, was stockpile links that I would have posted had we been live, or rather that I thought at the time I would have posted had we been live. I discard a lot of what I see before I settle on what to post on any given day. Of course doing all that discarding at once it kind of odd...makes it seem as though I picked lots of "no longer relevant or interesting" stuff. Which of course makes no sense.

Oh well back to working through this list, at this rate it won't take as long as I thought to get caught up.

Posted by prolurkr at 09:30 PM | TrackBack

Prolurker is BACK!

Wow it has been a long 13 days, but now professional-lurker is back online. I have a long list of links I have been saving for posting and I will be working on that over the next week or so. Hope all of you have a great hollyday and that we will all have a happy new year.

Posted by prolurkr at 01:48 PM | TrackBack

Another year of prolurker

I sat down on the evening of the 21st to start working on this post. Something about the solstice makes me reflective no matter what, and two days until the blog's anniversary just adds to the existing atmosphere. It seems to be appropriate to be playing Seasons of Love from Rent while I write this - 525, 600 minutes - how do you measure, measure a year?.... Of course the other interesting issue is that I am writing this while my blog is offline, having expended its monthly bandwidth allocation and awaiting a new transfusion to get us through moving to the new host.

During the last year the blog and I have grown in ways I may not know completely for some time. The blog is maybe the easiest to describe. Prolurker has been honored this year with nominations for design and has been used as required reading/viewing in classes ranging from online diary studies to new media design. I want to thank all of my colleagues who have found value here and have recommended the work to their students. There is no greater complement than to have my work become part of anothers classroom.

As for me personally, because of the blog I have been interviewed for a variety of theses and dissertations ranging from looks at academic blogging to discussions of gender in the blogosphere. From the perspective of one who didn't write a people-centric masters thesis - my thesis from my first masters is on commuter patterns between Indiana counties - and as one who has yet to begin their dissertation, it has been very interesting to watch these projects develop and to make note of aspects I want to use myself when I approach my dissertation.

In the 525,600 minutes…give or take…since I sat down to write my last annual review of the blog, the following points jump out at me from this year:

• Traffic on this site continues to grow. Thank you all, it is very rewarding to see so many new readers. Also thanks to Feedster for the Feed of the Day recognition, I'm very proud that the blog singled out as being interesting enough for this recognition.
• Because of the growth Prolurker is/has moved to a new host that can provide more bandwidth at a lower cost. This is great for the blog but will be a learning experience for me; I'm used to dealing with a sole-proprietorship rather than a huge company. Of course the change needed to happen, as I have discussed previously [link to post].
• This last year I had the good fortune to hire an excellent designer to redo the look of the site. The only credit I will take is in authorizing payment and giving final approval to the design, the actual credit goes to Julie. Check out her design firm at DigitalJaz.
• The last year has been one of many personal changes. Mostly I have found my personal center, something that was misplaced during my early years in doctoral studies. I don't think this is unusual; maybe my road is a bit different, but not totally off the charts. I can't even begin to say how much the blog and the readers have helped me find a comfortable place to view my work, and my time in graduate school. Thank you all.
• Finally this little blog I started to first give me a taste of the phenomena I was studying and then to give myself practice writing for an audience has morphed into some sort of marketing and publication venue that simply was not on my radar two years ago when I began this journey. It's been amazing…and now I measure my days by words written both in papers and on the blog. There are many worse ways to live a life.
• I don't think I will ever get over being amazed when I get email from students and professors all over the world, who have found my work through my blog writing. Usually I feel very much like the kid who gets to add a new stamp to her collection. "Look, look this one is from Malaysia!"

Last year's "Year in Review" post was heavy with numbers, and somehow this year I don't see the need for it. It probably doesn't hurt that as I update this post for publication on January 4, 2006 I have lost all of my previous user stats in the move to the new host. I was planning on adding a clip of the cPanel Webalizer panel but all of that is lost. It's a bummer since I all I will have for annual reports is the cummulative increase...oh well.

The future of professional-lurker is? You know, I have no idea. As for right now I think now that Prolurker is up and running on it's new hosts servers it is steady state and that is just fine by me.

525,600 minutes, 525,000 moments so dear.
525,600 minutes - how do you measure, measure a year?
In daylights, in sunsets, in midnights, in cups of coffee.
In inches, in miles, in laughter, in strife. In 525,600 minutes - how do you measure a year in the life?

Posted by prolurkr at 06:58 PM | TrackBack

Prolurker will be quiet for awhile

As I have mentioned prolurker is moving to a new host shortly. In preparation for that move the site will be quiet, and possibly even down for a day or so while all of the moves and realignments are going on. So before I go let me wish all of you happy hollydays, enjoy the dark of the year. I expect the site will be active again by the beginning of next week (12/26/05).

Posted by prolurkr at 11:45 AM | Comments (1) | TrackBack

An interesting way to see what others are saying

Talk Digger 2.0 Beta has been released and is a good move in the right direction to really let blog authors see what impact there site is having. I've been playing with it for 40 minutes or so and have found several links that other "searches" have not yielded.

I've said for sometime that we needed a program that did one of two things - though having both would be really nice, first would be one which took the base url with wildcards and searched all available resource to turn up all links. Second we need a tool that scoures the archives and lists links one by one for each archived post. Talk Digger gets us part way there. Of course there is lots more room in the market for other tools that tell me what others are saying about and using from my posts...wish trackback did it all by itself but of course it doesn't.

Posted by prolurkr at 06:54 AM | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Professional-Lurker on the The Edublog Awards 2005 Shortlist

Professional-Lurker has been honored by making the shortlist for The Edublog Awards 2005 in the Best designed/most beautiful edublog category. Thank you for your nominations.

Voting will start tomorrow (12/6/2005) and run through December 17, 2005. Anyone can vote for the nominated blogs.

I would appreciate your vote for prolurker. Thanks.

Posted by prolurkr at 08:21 PM | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Countdown timers

Ok well my countdown timers have quit at the source and I have no idea how to let the guy know he needs to fix his program. So I'm testing another timer, don't be surprised if things look flakey for a bit. I'll post when I get it working correctly.

Testing 1-2-3

Counting down to New Year 2006: 1 Jan 2006 00:00:00 UTC-0500!

Ok this works now I just have to get it going in the sidebars.

Amended: Alright we are cooking with gas!

Posted by prolurkr at 07:46 AM | TrackBack

I so don’t get link rankings

Ok I so don't get how this works...but it's kinda cool. From the bottom to the top in 1-day. LOL I should write a book.

Posted by prolurkr at 12:11 AM | TrackBack

My day of Feedsterization

From 10:00 a.m. on Sunday November 13 until 12:00 p.m. Monday November 14, 2005 Professional-Lurker.com was listed as the Feedster XML feed of the day. It has been interesting to watch the visit rates during this period, the site had multiple visitors every hour with the exception of 8:00 p.m. and 9:00 a.m. EST. Why those two hours EST? Your guess is as good as mine.

I did a quick graph, what can I say I was done writing, that shows the visits and total pages. So as you would expect people visit and a very few dig deeper to view other pages on the site. Probably even fewer of them make return visits but only time will tell on that one.

Related Post:
Thanks Feedster and welcome

Posted by prolurkr at 02:32 PM | TrackBack

Do Not Fear the Blog

This morning's quick reading of feeds brought me a Chronicle of Higher Education story, Do Not Fear the Blog, I so want to comment on it but I don't have time to do so today. So consider this a combination Upcoming Post Announcement and bookmark.

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