On the Road Again
Off for a 3 day vacation. Expect light to no blogging between now and Sunday night.
Modulator
Watching Modulator’s Navel
Modulator’s 40,000th visitor arrived today (per Sitemeter). Regular readers will remember that number 20,000 arrived on January 27, 2004.
The first 20,000 took 267 days and the 2nd 20,000 only 106 days. I like that doubling rate but would be pleasantly shocked to see the next doubling (to 80,000 visitors) occur in 106 days.
I’d like top reward visitor number 40,000 with a link but I don’t know who it was. I was a bit blindsided by the upsurge in search traffic today and that visitor zipped right off the bottom of the short but free Sitemeter referral log. Oh well, maybe next time.
Thanks to everyone who has stopped by!
April’s Top Referrers (Updated 5/2)
On the right side bar is the updated roll of Modulator’s 20 top referrers. Number 20 produced 11 referrals compared to 19 in February. Overall traffic was down about 3.5% which is actually pretty good considering I took a week off mid month and wrote 36% fewer posts. Statistics are culled from AWStats running on Modulator’s server at Hosting Matters.
April churn was down with with 6 blogs dropped and 5 new ones added compared to 9 and 9 in March.
Thank you one and all!
Also, I’d like to acknowledge significant referrals from some of the blogosphere’s ‘service’ sites: Technorati, weblogs.com, blogrolling.com, MovableType, Blogdex, Bloglines, blogoshpere.us, Sitemeter, NZ Bear’s Ecosystem, Bloogz and Daypop.
All of the blog rolls except the Base Roll are ordered by most recently updated so be sure to ping weblogs.com or blogrolling.com to push to the top of the rolls. These are certainly the sites I tend to look at first and visitors will see you at the top of the roll as well.
For a brief discussion of Modulator’s blog rolls look here.
Return Message
Unplugged and out of touch.
4+ days with no net access and while newspapers were available I let them be grist for others.
By the third day unconnected seemed normal and the withdrawal symptoms were relatively mild.
But, just to show that withdrawal was not complete, when I saw this guy:
I couldn’t help but think of PZ Myers.
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Regular posting should slowly return to normal, whatever that is, over the weekend.
Away Message
The Modulator staff will be vacationing most of this week.
Both connectivity and writing time will be limited so expect a slow posting week.