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Visitors around here

Saturday, July 12th, 2008

We were at a baby shower earlier today, and the conversation ended up talking about blogging, and I mentioned that there are ways to track where readers come from, along with a bunch of information about their environment (non-sketchily, by the way – most companies use Google Analytics, as do I). It got me thinking that I hadn’t look at locations of people in a while; easy enough – it’s tracked for free.

Here’s the US States that I have had people read www.averbuch.net (at least, since I switched from Spaces) from – darker is more readers:

Visitors around here photo   states thumb1

And while we are at it – here’s Europe (there’s a few visitors from other continents as well, but not enough to warrant discussion):

Visitors around here photo   europe thumb1

Interesting Articles in the Blogosphere

Friday, April 25th, 2008

As I’ve mentioned before, I do nearly all of my blog reading through Google Reader. One neat feature it has is the ability to “share” articles that one finds interesting out to the world. I’ve been doing that for a while. At first, it was just to send articles over to Joelle for reading, but recently, I have also had them posted into my Facebook profile, through the Feedheads application.

I realized I should share these through www.averbuch.net as well, in case any one wants to follow along on what I find interesting as I surf the blog world…

It is now up at averbuch.net/interesting-reading/, and will automatically be kept up to date as I add things (which I do more frequently than blogging itself).

RSS feed also available, by the way, of shared articles.