I love Mondays. I can’t tell you exactly why because it would likely land me in trouble around here, but I love Mondays.
First, let me report I expect to live. I’m stuffy, but the achy body and pounding head part disappeared. (Yea! Witchcraft!)
Next I’ll share how interesting last week was for blogging. Much to my surprise, traffic here is closing ranks with what traffic was at that other site. I surely didn’t expect that. There’s way much more babbling here. I guess that’s ok with you.
(Ok, honestly, I know you’re waiting to see what comes out of my mouth next, but I can live with that.)
No doubt a big chunk of last week’s traffic was the news of another Elmbrook teacher not making the grade. It was fun watching where all the hits originated. Ecuador, Spain, Britain – the Brookfield diaspora is vast.
For my Monday trick, I’m going to help a couple of women put up a Web site. I hadn’t heard from these two for years, but they remembered I liked this stuff, and asked if I’d help them out.
Brookfield diaspora? Or Covert Surfer… anonymous, encrypted creeps coming to read comment#12 on another topic and check out a few websites whose names and a few other details may have better blacked out before posting ?
How much may we be hurting our kids with things like the passage of AB458, and posting that report? Are we unwittingly feeding the problem?
Oh, I have one of those, too. Denmark seems to be very popular right now. And I have a very hard time thinking my current traffic stems from my suggestion kids should have access to details about birth control.
JAM, I rather suspect there are a few kids who managed to get out of here. I stand by the term diaspora.
Hi, I agree that post “THYA” may not be generating the traffic… my hunch was post “PTA” with comment #12′s report containing websites. Do you have access to stats which may indicate which posts/comments are most frequently read?
Did these diaspora read your other blog to keep up with local news? Are you seeing a few repeat IP’s and getting to know them? Or is there just a possibility that might it be the random number generator at work as described in comment #12′s report?
Will we be attracting all sorts of characters our moms warned us about, to visit this community soon?? Hopefully our kids won’t get diaspora’d with strangers. More readers (lurkers) is not always a good thing. To me, this is scarier than Mr. Words Download.
Don’t fash yourself over my traffic, JAM.
Yes, I get a sense of what’s more popular. Generally, those are posts generating comments. (Gasp!) In general, the reach has been regarding a certain name. They are one-hit wonders that will disappear forever. Still, it was fun to see the countries.
Just to calm your nerves, I will confess those using AOL to access the internet have the best privacy off all the providers. AOL switches the IP every single time you click on a new page. Even if one wanted, there’d be no way to trace that!
Of course more readers are good. It’s not a closed community or I’d be e-mailing this to my mom and aunts. And for the record, creepy stalker guy should concern everyone. He’s terribly unpredictable in how far he’ll go to draw attention.