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This is fun. Gvisit.com has a free service where you put a snippet of code in your web page and every hit to your site is logged on their server and plotted on a map. Before you get all Privacy Advocate on them, know that they're using information that is already public. Your IP address (which you give to every web page you connect to already) can be used to find out, roughly, where you are. Brendon explained to me that the airport code for the nearest major city can be taken from your IP, or something. Anyway, I added the code to my site and now you can see a map of who has been reading it.
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Really, all those little dots are from me. I just get around a lot.
How come Rob & I don’t show up on it? How much lag is there? After I leave this comment I’ll check again just in case you have to leave a comment to get registered. Though if that is the case, then I would say it’s not so much a log of who’s reading the blog as it is who’s participating in the blog. But I’ll reserve judgement on that until I check back.
It only shows the last 20 visitors, and it only updates once per hour. Check back an hour after you visit and see if there is a marker in St. Louis. It doesn’t require a comment, it just goes on hits to the site. If I get more than 30 hits in one hour, then it will only show the last 20 and the first 10 will never show up. If you hit my site about once every fifteen minutes, checking the gVisit map each time, then you’re bound to see a marker for you.
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