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During the first months of this blog
I noticed with not a little trepidation
A cabby over in the States
Facing the sack over something that he blogged
Sorry no
Getting the sack and losing his licence
That was what I recall happening
He had hurled a bit of one sided criticism at a member of the public
And somehow they had winkled him out
Maybe he wasn't wearing a mask
I sat back in thought at the time
Like most bloggers of any nature I had covered my tracks somewhat anyway
But even now as I look back on that moment
It occured to me that with the right amount of determination
I myself could be unmasked
Back then as I sat in thought
I decided to put a blank counter button into the margin
So I could keep an eye on who was visiting
That being...if a base of Brighton readers should emerge
Then I would be aware of it
And be on my guard
One may think...but he's a hypocrit
He has a Brighton Bloggers button right next to it
And so I have
But it's one way
I am not a member
One can't read this page from that end
Was I being paranoid?..Too careful?
I couldn't be
The authorities round here take complaints quite seriously
And they will at least black mark you for a later date
You really have to behave yourself in this job
But all this is leading me somewhere else entirely
Something that happened a few weeks back
I went onto my page on 20six...to make a new entry
And noticed
Number of visitors was over 250
This was a surprise
I have noticed over the years
That most of the popular bloggers have a good degree of interaction going on
Which due to time is something I haven't been able to do
My visitors since the platform changed have been quite low
I went back to the particular blog that had attracted this mob
Thinking that I must have been heavily googled on some key word
But there was nothing unusual in that sense going on
Later on in the week I was rolling down the most read blogs list
Having now more time on my hands in recent times
I was starting to have a nose around a bit and join in a bit more
And lo...I stumbled upon myself in there up in the top ten
I went back and checked
Curious at how many visitors one needed to get up there
But it was only 70 odd
In the days after this I noticed the figures varied wildly
As my name slid up and down the top one hundred
It didn't make sense
So I decided to blow the dust off that counter button
To see who all these visitors were
And surprise surprise
It completely disagreed with the 20six statistics
It said that I had 8 visitors that day
Over the next few days I kept a check on it
The counter button is pretty reliable and eloborate
And sure enough
If somebody left a comment
They would be there in the detailed visitor information
I couldn't help but observe what was going on at the top of this list
I would read the top few
But I felt something fishy was going on
Maybe I'm just a daft old cab driver who doesn't get it
Who doesn't get why 'Falkanette' was number one
I read through it and at first thought that I couldn't understand it
Then on stepping back a bit
I thought no...this is gobbledygook
It looks to me like it's been written foreign and put through a net translator
It sits on the most basic template
And has existed for only a month
I used to puzzle away at why that fathead the 'Carlisle Cock' used to be so read on the old platform
But it is no puzzle compared to todays list
And lo...as I look today
It has turned into a small invasion
What is the point?
How is it done?
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amillionpieces
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(20.7.08 14:25)
I wish I knew, but I am going to delete some - clearly spam, thanks for the heads up!
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(20.7.08 14:52)
Um - okay so the list is a bit emptier now, you may move up much higher as I just killed five hundred or so of those weird blogs.
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Spence
(21.7.08 22:09)
Good stuff
At a rate of around 20 per minute
That is sterling work
Still WLTM Falkanette
Perhaps stare them out over a cup of coffee
I've got questions
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