you can hide these blog postings if you'd like... i understand... they are not for you... and would bore me if i were you... facebook has a great feature whereby you can link your blog to your facebook page and draw interested web searchers that way.

conversely, to all of my geek friends, you might want to try adding your blog's rss feed to facebook's "notes" system and see if help's generate traffic!

i know that i have enjoyed a 280% increase on my Google Adsense payouts this month, and i'm looking to get that return to increase even more. why not. we have good knowledge, that new people in the industry want - more and more each day!

good luck, im sure you will be able to figure it out. but if you cannot... here is some information that i found here at SiteProNews "5 ways to Import and Promote your blog on Facebook"

if so, you can find more information here on how to report those Twitter users to authorities and eventually stop this crap.

basically you notify this twitter user "@endautodms" and make the message kinda like this:

i found this information here on "The SocialToo Blog SocialToo - Your Companion to the Social Web"

as i've been predicting to all of my friends in the real world (yes, there is a life outside of the internet) facebook is starting to SMOKE myspace. i can just tell. the reach the demographics that its starting to pull are off the hook.

here is a techcrunch article on the subject, and quite timely. its amazing how like a wildfire a website can find it's tipping point, and this must just be that that we are watching happen.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/22/facebook-photos-pulls-away-from-the-pack/

so ive been reading (iPhone reading :) malcom gladwell's "tipping point" and its kinda made me think of this major social network tipping point that i think we are seeing.

facebook is BLOWING up, myspace is DECLINING oddly, and twitter seems to be really ramping up. and not only because i use these services but people like my mother (no offense momma :) and her friends are using these things... thats a demographic that facebook NEVER planned on, im sure of that.

just my .02c on the pile of stuff tipping this social phenomenon

This is a cool little tool to make those nifty little blog button's you see on a lot of blog sites.

Thanks to Erika from Cf-Community for the link:

Blog Button Maker

Google's latest acuisition, and what seems to be cool new tool have been released in a beta format :) yeah, i know, beta format. The post of the news that I found was on slashdot, and the site responded VERY fast to my page requests, meaning one thing... and one thing only, in my mind... they have a nice website server farm and infrastructure in place, strong enough to handle a slashdotting!

From what their website says, they can tell you a lot about the visitors of your blog, the influence your blog has on the world, and some other cool bits of data...

From the Measure Map website:

Measure Map helps you understand what people do at your blog, and what influence you are having on the world.

• Easily navigate the numbers that matter
• Track links to see who sends you traffic
• Find out what people do at your site
• Setup is a breeze — it only takes a minute

Anyway, its called "Measure Map" and here is a link to their site.
You have to signup to be in the beta, the simple task of entering your email address in a form gets that done!

Today I was notified and promptly submitted to, a new blogging aggregator today. It's called Feed-Squirrel.com and looks like its going to focus on Adobe (formerly Macromedia) technologies. Cool name, cool very thin GUI website to go with it.

Anyway, check it out, its the squirrel.

no, i wasnt invited, nor was my blog. but maybe someday the revolution weblog will make its way into the bloggies!

anyway, here is the link to the bloggies for 2006

and a link to my favorite design, joshuaink.com

this blog the joshuaink.com blog has to be the best design i have seen in a LONG time.

good luck, i hope you win.

Thanks to Raymond Camden for yet another great blog cfc install. i had a few issues in my converting it from a quite early version, to this, but im done. now its time to come up with an interface again :)

who knows what i will come up with, but i'm going to poke around, check out some sites, check out some ideas, and see what i can find.

if you have any good ideas, or sites that have ideas... that are cool, let me know.

thanks.

so.

i put this snippet of code into my blog code:

and then Google's new Analytics tool, will tell me all kinds of good information on visitors to my blog. This should be interesting. Rumors are that this is all Urchin related, I think they are not rumors, as the method called in the Javascript is "urchinTracker()"

If you go do this on your blog, you can better analyze your traffic.

Here are some of the things they can tell you:

Snippet from the Help Information, Visitor Summary

Visitor Summary

The four graphics in this report provide a quick snapshot of visits to your site. Shown are:

* the total number of visits and pageviews your site received, the average number of pageviews per visit (P/V), and the number of visits and pageviews over time
* the number of first-time visits and returning visits
* the cities from which the most visitors come to your site
* your top referral sources.

Edit 1: There is also what's called "funneling" and "Conversions" so you can set a Start and an End and follow a sales process through the site. Very cool information!

Anyway, we have all always had stat's services running, watching our logs, telling us information, but I'm quite certain Google's spin will be neat!