Anthology of Ideas

The following announcement landed in my in-box today: Today, we’re excited to announce the introduction of Google Sites as part of Google Apps. Google Sites makes creating a team web site as easy as editing a document. You can quickly gather a variety of information in one place — including videos, calendars, presentations, attachments, and gadgets — and easily share it for viewing or editing with a small group, your entire organization, or the world.

Take a look at the following stats and let me know if you see anything odd. Summary by Month Month Monthly Totals KBytes Visits Pages Files Hits Feb 2008 3769739 8427 24576 121569 132159 Jan 2008 3634098 36357 131454 429936 478043 <p> Didn&#8217;t notice anything odd? Take a look at the first 4 days of the month below (focus on the bold column.) </p> <table border="2" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" width="400"> <tr> <th colspan="13" align="center" bgcolor="#c0c0c0"> Daily Statistics for February 2008 </th> </tr> <tr> <th align="center" bgcolor="#c0c0c0"> Day </th> <th align="center" bgcolor="#008040"> Hits </th> <th align="center" bgcolor="#0080ff"> Files </th> <th align="center" bgcolor="#00e0ff"> Pages </th> <th align="center" bgcolor="#ffff00"> Visits </th> <th align="center" bgcolor="#ff0000"> KBytes </th> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"> 1 </td> <td align="right"> 12484 </td> <td align="right"> 11167 </td> <td align="right"> 3915 </td> <td align="right"> 1194 </td> <td align="right"> <b>100.954</b> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"> 2 </td> <td align="right"> 14990 </td> <td align="right"> 13412 </td> <td align="right"> 5617 </td> <td align="right"> 1273 </td> <td align="right"> <b>136.491</b> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"> 3 </td> <td align="right"> 41622 </td> <td align="right"> 37873 </td> <td align="right"> 7236 </td> <td align="right"> 2417 </td> <td align="right"> <b>1.288.875</b> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"> 4 </td> <td align="right"> 62827 </td> <td align="right"> 58979 </td> <td align="right"> 7763 </td> <td align="right"> 3544 </td> <td align="right"> <b>2.242.575</b> </td> </tr> </table> <p> If you noticed, Yah, seriously, but if you didn&#8217;t: in two days I used as much bandwidth as the previous months.

Oh yay…yippee…It seems that lately most everything that I post — especially posts about WordPress — are being auto-scraped and ending up displayed in “feed-reader” websites that are just the next generation of splogs. So what am I doing about it to protect my WordPress blog? Simple. I’m adding more links to my past posts. The sites claim that they aren’t doing anything wrong, and I do have to give their arguments credit, so here is the catch: if they remove the links, then they are modifying my content and aren’t “just another feedreader”, so I can report them, if they leave them in, I can get a little more traffic and “google juice” — although the later is falling in importance and relevancy —, or if they notice this post and remove my site from their list, I get what I really want.

This is old news, but for the first time in 6 or so months I signed into my adsense account. (I wanted to make sure that money that I’ve been owed for a year hasn’t magically reached the payout mark.) I looked around a little bit, and I considered updating the Google Adsense Widget with any changes, and I stumbled upon these new YouTube ad-enabled players. These may have been around for a year for all I know have been around since October, but I’ve never seen them and they are rather cool looking.

Some people search search engines by using a few keywords, but others ask entire questions. This series of posts is dedicated to them. Over the next couple weeks I’m going to pick full questions from my logs and answer them. It is the least I could do. The first question in this series comes from an American using Windows and Internet Explorer, and they ask “What religion did the People of the Roman Empire follow?” Well I’m glad you asked that… um…let’s call you Fred… while your search landed on a very popular article entitled Causes and Effects of the Popularization of Christianity in the Roman Empire, I’m afraid that it won’t answer your question entirely.

Matt Cutts [was at Wordcamp] shared with the audience…that underscores in URLs are now (or at least very soon to be) treated as word separators by Google. –News Blog This is very good news.

The following announcement landed in my in-box today: Today, we’re excited to announce the introduction of Google Sites as part of Google Apps. Google Sites makes creating a team web site as easy as editing a document. You can quickly gather a variety of information in one place — including videos, calendars, presentations, attachments, and gadgets — and easily share it for viewing or editing with a small group, your entire organization, or the world.

Take a look at the following stats and let me know if you see anything odd. Summary by Month Month Monthly Totals KBytes Visits Pages Files Hits Feb 2008 3769739 8427 24576 121569 132159 Jan 2008 3634098 36357 131454 429936 478043 <p> Didn&#8217;t notice anything odd? Take a look at the first 4 days of the month below (focus on the bold column.) </p> <table border="2" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" width="400"> <tr> <th colspan="13" align="center" bgcolor="#c0c0c0"> Daily Statistics for February 2008 </th> </tr> <tr> <th align="center" bgcolor="#c0c0c0"> Day </th> <th align="center" bgcolor="#008040"> Hits </th> <th align="center" bgcolor="#0080ff"> Files </th> <th align="center" bgcolor="#00e0ff"> Pages </th> <th align="center" bgcolor="#ffff00"> Visits </th> <th align="center" bgcolor="#ff0000"> KBytes </th> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"> 1 </td> <td align="right"> 12484 </td> <td align="right"> 11167 </td> <td align="right"> 3915 </td> <td align="right"> 1194 </td> <td align="right"> <b>100.954</b> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"> 2 </td> <td align="right"> 14990 </td> <td align="right"> 13412 </td> <td align="right"> 5617 </td> <td align="right"> 1273 </td> <td align="right"> <b>136.491</b> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"> 3 </td> <td align="right"> 41622 </td> <td align="right"> 37873 </td> <td align="right"> 7236 </td> <td align="right"> 2417 </td> <td align="right"> <b>1.288.875</b> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"> 4 </td> <td align="right"> 62827 </td> <td align="right"> 58979 </td> <td align="right"> 7763 </td> <td align="right"> 3544 </td> <td align="right"> <b>2.242.575</b> </td> </tr> </table> <p> If you noticed, Yah, seriously, but if you didn&#8217;t: in two days I used as much bandwidth as the previous months.

Oh yay…yippee…It seems that lately most everything that I post — especially posts about WordPress — are being auto-scraped and ending up displayed in “feed-reader” websites that are just the next generation of splogs. So what am I doing about it to protect my WordPress blog? Simple. I’m adding more links to my past posts. The sites claim that they aren’t doing anything wrong, and I do have to give their arguments credit, so here is the catch: if they remove the links, then they are modifying my content and aren’t “just another feedreader”, so I can report them, if they leave them in, I can get a little more traffic and “google juice” — although the later is falling in importance and relevancy —, or if they notice this post and remove my site from their list, I get what I really want.

This is old news, but for the first time in 6 or so months I signed into my adsense account. (I wanted to make sure that money that I’ve been owed for a year hasn’t magically reached the payout mark.) I looked around a little bit, and I considered updating the Google Adsense Widget with any changes, and I stumbled upon these new YouTube ad-enabled players. These may have been around for a year for all I know have been around since October, but I’ve never seen them and they are rather cool looking.

Some people search search engines by using a few keywords, but others ask entire questions. This series of posts is dedicated to them. Over the next couple weeks I’m going to pick full questions from my logs and answer them. It is the least I could do. The first question in this series comes from an American using Windows and Internet Explorer, and they ask “What religion did the People of the Roman Empire follow?” Well I’m glad you asked that… um…let’s call you Fred… while your search landed on a very popular article entitled Causes and Effects of the Popularization of Christianity in the Roman Empire, I’m afraid that it won’t answer your question entirely.

Matt Cutts [was at Wordcamp] shared with the audience…that underscores in URLs are now (or at least very soon to be) treated as word separators by Google. –News Blog This is very good news.