transcendental petroglyphs

Thoughts on Radio.

@ Monday, January 28, 2002

Continuing with the referers obsession, I think I now "get it". What I really want to happen is that if I link to something on somebody else's weblog, their referers page reflects that link. But that isn't what happens. Instead, the referers page show how many times somebody has followed my link to that person's page. So if I want that person to see that I have a link to their page, I have to link to their page and then follow that link at least once. Then they will see my link on their referers page.

comment ()  8:21:02 PM  #

Clearly I am obsessed by the whole referers thing.

comment ()  8:02:56 PM  #

I'm really really really trying to keep my referers numbers untainted by my own link following, but apparently if I click on my "Home" link to the right (*you* can't see it if you are looking at my home page but I can) then that increments my referer count for this page to that page. Which boosts my overall score and bumps me up on the "Ranking by Page-Reads" list. I kinda think that's a bug but I'm not sure how you'd fix it. I can work around it by not clicking on that link. I don't really need to go to my home page and if I do, I can just go to it directly.

comment ()  8:01:27 PM  #

Perhaps the real question: Is a weblog a personal conversation I have with myself, or a community discussion? Or a little of both?

comment ()  7:42:07 PM  #

"What role should discussion (or some other community-feedback mechanism) play in [weblogs]?"[Dan Shafer's Weblog for Web Builders]: This is something that has puzzled me as well. I feel like I'm shouting blind, so to speak. There isn't really any good way for people to discuss any item in my weblog. People can quote me in their weblog and so our weblogs become the discussion. Maybe that is the "right way".

comment ()  7:39:07 PM  #

OK. I don't want to get too excited here, but I'm actually on the "Ranking by Page-Reads" page. I've only got 32 hits and I'm afraid most of them are from me. But it is just possible the somebody out there is watching :)

comment ()  6:31:19 PM  #

I'm trying to add a link to the left. So I think I need to make a post to get things streamed to my home page.

comment ()  5:32:09 PM  #

OK. I am a moron, obviously, but I did not understand how to interpret the numbers on the referers page. I guess weblogs.com is actually tracking click-throughs to pages and the number on the referers page tells you how many people are clicking through to your page from weblogs.com. If that is true, then I guess there are people actually taking a look. Unbelievable.

comment ()  5:13:45 PM  #

I bet you could blog with the new wireless Palm. Obviously you cold update your weblog by email with the thing. But I wonder if you could set up a reduced site and use the palm to update it.

comment ()  3:34:51 PM  #

I've been having trouble with Radio freezing on me. This hasn't happened before today and I'm wondering if it is a problem with the new picture tool.

comment ()  3:32:26 PM  #