Tuesday, September 17, 2002

Radio wishlist: automated referers harvesting. Does anyone know of a simple way of automatically storing (or e-mailing) my list of referers every day just before they are reset, so I can look at them when I have the time? [Seb's Open Research] [Blogfish] I think that the software to run this will have to sit on the Radio Server because only they know for sure when they going to do the reset, and this way it would be sure of copying everything right before the reset. There are several variants I would like Have a page called Yesterday's referers that is a copy of what my referers were the previous day right before reset - this makes it easier for people who might not find it convenient to be going there right before the witching hour, but sometimes we get busy for more than a day, and could also miss that. Transmit the data into a file in which in our Prefs we say how much space to allocate for this.  The file layout would include the date of the data, and be available in several popular PC data base formats. I could then go to the public url (which has the stuff accumulated since the last time I did this) and downstream it to my private hard disk, taking some option to clear the public accumulation of what got there successfully. I could look at the data by day, as it came in, or run a consolidation of what the referer picture would have looked like had a string of consecutive dates been combined into one set of totals. I could also look at other perspectives ... which sites are connecting to me every day, every week, etc. 10:53:01 PM

Radio Tip (something I found on my referers) http://www.ozten.com/random/WeblogPlayer/applet.html Go to this url, take your hands off of the keyboard, leave the mouse alone, just watch as you are taken on a tour of random Weblogs. Do just one random at a time with RandomFreshBlog developed by [Philringnalda]. 10:41:15 PM

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