I keep saying that my blogging is going to start slowing down soon but extremely interesting stories keep popping up. Seriously though, I will be giving it a break soon. I really hope the next couple weeks are extremely un-noteworthy, although I highly doubt that will happen.
Enjoy the links.
This week kind of took the wind out of me and I am stumbling towards the finish line in terms of blogging. I have been falling behind in posting quality articles, so I am going to try to catch up this weekend or next. Still, there are some very quality links this week, lots of enjoyable reading. Have fun clicking, I am going to sleep.
Enjoy the links.
It is that time of the week again. I made it by the skin of my teeth this time.
I have decided to attempt some organization to the links by general topics. I try to pick a diverse set of links that mirrors my interests and hopefully will be of interest to you as well. I have begun to get submissions for links which I greatly appreciate. I cannot say for certain that all the links will make it every week, but I will try to be more open to suggestions than closed.
Here are this week’s links. Enjoy.
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Just like every other bloke out there that has a blog, I’ve had my problems with comment spam. What you might not know though is that your spam may be giving you a false sense of who is visiting your site.
I regularly check my site logs to see who is coming to my site. I am especially interested in browser statistics - not only for this site, but in general as well. Last month, I noticed that the segment of visitors using Internet Explorer had steadily risen to around 45 to 50 percent. I found this to be a strange occurance since I was usually seeing a vast majority of Firefox users coming to my site with the occasional Safari boom when I’d post to Pixelsurgeon, Newstoday and Artdorks.
It wasn’t just a coincidence that during that same timespan, I was seeing my highest concentration of blog spam to date. I would sometimes get over 100 comment notifications that were spam and that doesn’t count the number that were actually blocked by my spam filters.
I have to say I’m starting to become surprised. The Firefox phenomenon just doesn’t seem to want to slow down as is apparent with them breaking the 18 million download mark. The upstart browser is now the #1 used browser for my blog and seems to be climbing every week. While it still has some issues with Flash on OS X, all-in-all I’m very satisfied with the 1.0 release and I’m assuming a large majority of the 18 million or so people that downloaded it are as well.
I know I’ve been covering Firefox quite a bit on this blog lately, but I really feel that this could be the beginning of a real interesting situation a year or two down the road. I feel a lot of people still using IE are doing so in the thought that IE7 will take care of all the current problems and they’d rather wait it out than take the time to migrate to a new browser. If this does not happen however, I think there is going to be a huge second movement to Firefox if the open-source browser continues to make improvements on its already solid foundation.
The exposure has been amazing and the hype has pretty much been fulfilled. The next step from Microsoft could really be the defining moment.
Once this site is out of beta, the entire project will be available for download. Check in periodically for updates.
