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Saskatchewan Round-Up
Sask Government Insurance, a crown corporation that provides insurance to all drivers in our province, is offering $180 rebates to safe drivers on their automobile insurance and lowering rates by an average of 5% as well (when we already have the lowest auto insurance rates in Canada – why do you think I love public ownership for services like this?) The big question though, with an election looming, is “Calvert Cash” the equivalent of “Ralph Bucks” in Alberta?

The right-wing Fraser Institute think tank has named Saskatchewan as having the third-best investment climate in Canada.  That's so strange-sounding, I'm going to repeat it: the right-wing Fraser Institute think tank has named Saskatchewan as having the third-best investment climate in Canada.  (The Fraser Institute redeems themselves by attacking the Sask government for being too cozy with unions and for excessive spending. Whew – thought I'd dropped into an alternate universe there for a second!)

Nothing is weirder than flipping through the channels and seeing an actor being interviewed in Hollywood and wearing a t-shirt from your small Saskatchewan hometown!   Turns out his name is Dustin Milligan, he's from the Northwest Territories, he recently shot a horror movie called “The Messengers” in Indian Head and he's now moved to Hollywood to make his fame and fortune.  (Reminds me of doing the Saskatchewan thing and going up to somebody wearing a “Moose Jaw” shirt in Ohio last summer.  Turns out “Moose Jaw” isn't just the name of a city in Saskatchewan, it's a clothing company in Michigan.  Oops!)


The last big
celebs to hit IH were Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Mischa
Barton when she was still relatively unknown.  So perhaps some similar
good prairie karma will follow this kid?  Those three actors were in IH to shoot a movie called “Skipped Parts”
and I'd highly recommend it as well as the original book by Tim Sandlin.  The
subject matter is potentially offensive – young kids experimenting with
sex around the time of the Kennedy assassination – but the book is excellent.  That's actually where the title comes from – both lead characters are bookish and want to find out what happens
in the parts that authors skip in the books that they write.  (“Avery carried Simone into the bedroom, closing the door gently behind him with a sweep of his foot.”  Chapter Two:  “When they awoke the next morning…”)

Internet Round-Up
I finally broke down and subscribed to Carbonite (well, its 14-day free trial anyhow) which is an online backup utility.  For $5 a month, a small program sits on your computer and automatically backs up any files and folders you designate, working in the background.  It technically has no limit to how much you can upload but they suggest not going higher than 50 GB and won't back up audio/video files during the trial period – only if you're a paying customer.  I could easily buy a decent hard drive for the same amount as I'll pay for this service for a year (heck, I think I have a hard drive or two kicking around that would work.)  That's why I held off subscribing to this service when I first heard about it.  But the convenience factor makes it well-worth it – both because it works wherever I am as long as I'm connected to the Net (ie. 100% of the time at home with my laptop and wireless) and not just when I'm at my desk plugged into an external hard drive.  Plus the big problem with back-ups is a) the software usually sucks in one way or another, b) you have to remember to do it and c) if you do it, say weekly, you're still at risk of losing stuff in a crash.  This service provides near-instantaneous, constant back-up.

Foxmarks is a Firefox extension that helps you synchronize your bookmarks between different machines as well as allowing you to access them remotely.  I've played around a lot with Delicious in the past month and although it has many features I like – sharing bookmarks, seeing who else and how many people have bookmarked things, I was just never happy with the interface.  I'm a librarian – I like folders and think that tagging, although useful to a point, has many disadvantages as well.  If Delicious would allow you to view your bookmarks in a tree structure (other than their “tag bundles” which I don't like either), I might use it all the time.  But until that happens, it'll be my secondary bookmark service, mostly for saving articles and unique sites I come across that I don't want to make part of my main bookmarks. 

I'm really liking Reddit as an alternative to Digg – stories seem to be discussed in a more mature manner and be of a higher quality in general. 

I was looking for an iPhoto equivalent (quiet all you Mac people – I know, buying a Mac would give me the real thing!) as Google's Picasa which we use to manage our digital photos (and like very much) doesn't offer much in terms of creating slideshows.  After looking around a bit, it turns out a Microsoft product, Photo Story, is exactly what I was looking for – very easy-to-use, full-featured  and intuitive.   Plus it's a free download if you own Windows XP.  So after playing around with it a bit, I was quite impressed.  But it turned out that Microsoft can't help but disappoint.  For some reason, I can create slideshows from my digital photos but it won't let me save the project files to work on them later.  (If anybody decides to try this program, let me know if you have a similar problem.  One online board suggested it was a memory problem but it doesn't matter if I create a slideshow of one photo with no music – no saving is possible.  So frustrating!)

Anyhow, here's something I banged out tonight while watching the Flames crush the Blue Jackets.  I didn't spend a lot of time synching the images and music (though there are a couple cool points where it does seem to match up) and I've just used random images from the past year.  Apologies in advance if I used a photo of you that you think is non-flattering or if I used too many photos of you (or not enough.)  I can't save the file to work on it later but I'll leave it open on my computer for a few days (barring a crash or something) and if you really feel strongly about not wanting your photo included in this, e-mail me and I'll take it out.  Alternately, if you want the original version of the slideshow which is much better quality,  e-mail me for that (or if you want any of the individual photos.)  Oh, and feel free to put a link or embed the video on your blog too if you want.  The code to do so is on the YouTube page.



“The Big Game”
There is a major sporting event happening on Sunday but out of fear of infringing on its copyright, I will not mention it by name.  Neither will I invite over friends to watch it on a screen larger than 55″ nor charge any fee to those attending, even to cover the cost of their share of the pizza.  Isn't copyright grand? (via Reddit)

The Blog Survey
Thanks to everybody who responded so far.  How I can get so many responses for it and only two responses guessing the name of my future child when that request for input included prizes, I'll never know! 

I'm going to leave the blog survey open for awhile if anybody else wants to respond.  Lots of good feedback so far and I do appreciate all of it.  I should mention that I originally called it a “ten minute survey” but in fact it's a “ten question survey” that will take you about two minutes to complete.  So if that's what held you back, here's a link to the survey.

I didn't put the survey up as an ego-stroke (honest!) but I have to pass along this comment, which is extra meaningful because it's from a former classmate who I didn't know very well but who is now a lurker that reads my blog every few days. 

“Keep up the great work…Everyone who has had a class with you and/or knows
of your blog sees big things in your future.”

Posted 03 February 2007 § Blog § Canada § Internet § LibrarySchool § Main Page § Photo § Politics § PopCulture § Randomness § Saskatchewan § Video ‡ Comments (4) ° Tagged: , ,

Friday Fun Link – Do The Right Thing (Feb 2, 2007)

DoTheRightThing.com is a new web site that’s similar to Digg
in that users submit stories and others vote the stories up or down.
But unlike Digg, where the criteria for voting up or down a story are
fairly diverse, this site asks for you to vote based on the positive or
negative impact the story has on the wider world.

Posted 02 February 2007 § FridayFunLink § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Another Web Experiment – Google AdWords (and a backlog of Google-related stories)

Google announced their fourth quarter earnings today.  They made a profit of $1.03 Billion which is triple what they made in the final quarter of 2005.   I have to admit that I was responsible for, oh, about twenty bucks of that. 

I've detailed my experiments with creating Wikipedia pages, submitting
Digg stories and my thoughts on a lot of other newish Internet
technologies on this blog (I'm too lazy to add links to the original
posts – search for those words and you'll find them.)  My latest experiment (not even the right word – more like “play activity”) was a Google AdWords campaign. 

In an attempt to learn more about yet another web technology that's having a major impact, not just online but increasingly in the “real” world as well, I signed up for Google's AdWords program at the end of last year.  How it works is you set-up an account, specify the amount you're willing to spend per month as well as the keywords you want to “buy” and you're off.  (I think it recommends a minimum of $30/USD per month but I set my monthly limit to $20 just to try it out.) 

The keywords I “bought” were “mlis”, “university of western ontario” and “library student” so that anytime somebody was searching Google or an AdWords partner site (sites like Gmail that display Google ads to generate revenue) for one or a combination of those terms, there was a chance they might see my ad (see below for image.)  If they clicked on my ad, it cost me $0.10 and each click counted towards my monthly maximum but wouldn't take me over.  (I'm not positive but I think that $0.10 might be the minimum per click that they charge but if you want to bid on popular keywords, they charge significantly more.)

There's a whole art & science to picking your keywords (and designing your ad) but I didn't focus on that too much since I wasn't really trying to sell anything or make money off the ad.  I was mostly just fooling around to see what sort of results I would get. 

In the end (ie. after a month of it being displayed during last November/December), my ad was shown 239 000 times and clicked on 195 (apparently, these clicks were frequently by classmates who saw the ad in their Gmail accounts and thought WTF? if word-of-mouth feedback I got is any indication.) 

Again, I didn't do anything to analyse these hits beyond watching my normal traffic stats.  There was a definite upswing in traffic during that time period but I think that was attributable to my posts on “50 Ways To Improve FIMS” and “50 Good Things About FIMS” that I suspect got a lot of first-time visitors, the fact that we had a blog post advertising our furniture for sale that we advertised fairly widely at UWO via their housing registry and the “For Sale” board Shea had access to at the University Hospital and also because I think I posted my site in a library-related thread on MetaFilter that got me quite a few unique visitors as well. 

(This is fairly uncommon but some new hits may also have come via the Google ads but not have been reported via their system.  This is because some people
might choose to directly type the URL for an ad they see on Google rather than clicking on the ad itself.  They do this for two reasons – because they
don't want to cost the company that's advertising money or because they don't want to support
Google's increasing online dominance.  I've done the former when I've seen an ad appear for a charity or non-profit I'm interested in for example.) 

So in the end, was it worth it?  Sure, it was a great learning experience and I think that Google AdWords is only going to grow as a force in our world so it pays to know about.  Will libraries advertise via this method?  If they already have an advertising budget, why not?  Another feature that Google Adwords allows is targeting geographic regions.  I'm not sure if they allow you to go as narrow as the city level (I think I specified that I only wanted my ads to appear in Canada) but suspect that this is probably the case.  So if you're Moose Jaw Public Library, you can advertise only to people in Moose Jaw or maybe even southern Saskatchewan. 

If you've read the book, “The Long Tail” (and you should – probably the best book I read last year!), this is exactly what the author talks about – how the Internet allows companies and individuals to reach a targeted worldwide audience that they wouldn't otherwise be able to.

In this case, a mom and pop operation like mine that doesn't have any advertising budget to speak of (I mean, what would a business card-sized ad in the Gazette have cost me?) suddenly gets worldwide exposure to a highly targeted audience via the dominant portal for people using the Internet (which is a whole other issue – my “Broadcasting Online” presentation had a section about how insane it is that we'll likely look back at the dominance of five traditional media conglomerates in today's world as the “good old days” when it looks like three companies (Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo) are likely to be the most dominant online by far – and Google is definitely outpacing the other two as the first article I linked to makes clear.)

So anyhow, here's the ad that popped up when I was checking the MLIS Student Council Gmail account one day:

A few other Google-related notes since I'm on the topic…

-> This YouTube hoax for Google's new on-demand GoogleTV service hooked a lot of people (and would've got me too if I'd heard about it before I heard about it being a hoax!)  Watch it anyhow – I wouldn't be surprised if something like this became reality in the next year or two. 

-> One of the big reasons Google is so dominant is that people aren't just using it for search or thinking of it as a web site – they're literally using it as a Internet service like e-mail.  What I mean by that is that instead of typing a URL into their browser's address bar, they'll type the site they want to go to into Google first.  And often, because Google gets around the confusion of “is the site I want .com?  .ca?  .net?  .org?”, it's quicker to do it that way.  But you also end up with embarrrasing situations where “Yahoo” is one of the most searched for terms on Google and even worse, so is “Google” if you can believe it! 

From that last link:
“One of the top search results in Google (number 6 at the time of this writing), is “Google“. Hundreds of millions of users are trying to get to Google through Google.
Does this make any sense? No. But it shows that users don’t think about
Google as a specific web page, they think of it as the service, an
essential part of the internet experience. They’re using this service
to get to the page they want: in this case, Google.”

-> Here's a story from the New Yorker about Google's ongoing book digitization program and quest to create a universal library.  (Thanks to Michelle L. for the head's up!)

From the link:
“No one really knows how many books there are. The most volumes listed
in any catalogue is thirty-two million, the number in WorldCat, a
database of titles from more than twenty-five thousand libraries around
the world. Google aims to scan at least that many. “We think that we
can do it all inside of ten years,” Marissa Mayer, a vice-president at
Google who is in charge of the books project, said recently, at the
company’s headquarters, in Mountain View, California. “It’s
mind-boggling to me, how close it is. I think of Google Books as our
moon shot.””

-> Finally, did you know that Google has a blog specifically targeted at librarians
 and one for their Google Book Search?  Now you do!

Posted 01 February 2007 § Internet § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Tom Carmichael Is New FIMS Dean

Tom Carmichael was recently selected as the new Dean at FIMS.  (Thanks to Linda B. for the tip – it's been a month and I'm already out of touch with what's going on at FIMS!) 

I went to all three information sessions for the Decanal candidates and Tom was my second pick of the three candidates but he should be good for FIMS based on his knowledge of the wider University community.  As someone who attended Tom's session said to me afterwards: “if FIMS is in a 'time of change' like they say, maybe having a new Dean familiar with the University and its politics is a good thing rather than bringing in an outsider and doubling up the changes you're going through.”  Good point. 

Posted 01 February 2007 § LibrarySchool § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Dad's Filing Cabinet

My dad has a heavy old, four-drawer metal filing cabinet.  When I was a kid, that filing cabinet was one the most fascinating things for me in our entire house.  Many times, when my sister and I would play school or store, the filing cabinet had a part in the story.  And it's probably not too much of a stretch to say that my early fascination with that filing cabinet – the various folders holding different papers on all manner of topics, the most important items in the top drawers, the least in the bottom, those topics sub-sorted by drawer, not alphabetically but in a system that made sense to my dad – played a role in a fact that I became a librarian.

To be a librarian (or at least a good one), you should have a certain love of order.  For the non-politically correct, that's a nice way of saying “you should be anal retentive”. (To put it yet another way, you should be the type of person who would find a filing cabinet fascinating.)

Not everyone understands this so I suspect it was a bit of a shock when my mother asked for ideas for a graduation gift and I said “I'd like a filing cabinet, please.” 

“We're not getting you a filing cabinet,” she replied, in a voice that suggested I'd voiced my desire to have a human skull as a graduation gift.

“I can get it engraved,” I added hopefully. 

“No.  Your dad and I want to get you something that has meaning.  Not something that holds papers.” 

I didn't try to explain why a filing cabinet would have as much meaning as pretty much any gift they could get me, especially to commemorate my graduation from the MLIS program.  Besides the connection I already mentioned that it would have to my childhood and why I wanted to become a librarian in the first place, it would also be a daily symbol of much of what libraries are about – classifying, organizing and making accessible all of the information you need in a convenient fashion. 

Beyond these obvious (to me) reasons, a filing cabinet had other features that made it an appropriate gift. Like a fridge, a filing cabinet has an aesthetic value achieved by the artwork, clippings and other ephemera you can stick on it.  And of course, it has a practical utility for the effective storage that it provides in its very small footprint.

I brought the idea of a filing cabinet gift up again during a subsequent conversation with my mom and the utility argument swayed her this time.  I explained that I'd brought home all of the books and papers I'd accumulated over the year but sold off everything that held them – two bookshelves, a desk, even a couple shelves I'd rescued from the dumpster (each went for $10!)  A filing cabinet was something I was going to have to buy no matter what and if her and dad picked up the tab (a decent filing cabinet isn't cheap!), that would be a big help.

So I now have a filing cabinet in my office and have been working to get everything organized.  Connected to the “must like order” aspect of the librarian-type personality, there's also a related sentiment for some of us that says “must be a packrat”.  (But not for all – for some, “love of order” trumps “love of keeping items around” and some librarians take an almost ecstatic joy in weeding their collections to make sure only the most popular, most useful and most engaging books remain.)

My problem is that I constantly struggle to find a balance between my love of order and my love of holding on to otherwise useless items.  And often, the packrat side of my personality wins out, especially if I can somehow impose order on things that suggest no order in and of themselves (“Okay, these maps of Ontario that I'll never need again – or which I could easily get replaced by CAA or at a tourist booth or pretty much a million other locations if I do – will go in a folder called “Ontario Maps”.  Ahhh, sweet order.) 

That's just one example.  I have trouble recycling old magazines and papers. After all, who knows?  I might need our July 2005 London Hydro bill sometime in the future for something.

In a weird way, I think part of the reason I have trouble throwing things out is that all these scraps of paper are like photographs of our year.  Looking at the receipt for a meal we had at Under the Volcano soon after Shea arrived in London helps bring back the evening as easily as if I was looking at a photograph of us sitting there. A ticket stub from Cedar Point takes me back to that amusement park as much as any overpriced souvenir I might've bought on its midway. 

I think the other reason for my packrat nature is the connection it gives me to both the past and the future.  Just as dad's filing cabinet provided so much curiosity when I was a kid (I honestly have no memory of whether I was forbidden to look through the filing cabinet or not – but suspect I did anyhow!) I like to think that someday Oscar will look through the papers and files I've accumulated and get a picture of who I was (and am) and who is parents were (and are.) 

The receipt for our hostel in Montreal might tell something of either Shea's and my values or our lack of money (or both) during a trip we took.   Those Ontario maps might provide hours of imagining future trips of his own.  A thank-you card given by a classmate might show the type of friend I was to others.   Even that London Hydro bill might provide wonder in ten or twenty or fifty years when electricity is provided by technologies we can't even yet imagine, just as looking at old issues of Life magazine in my grandparents' farmhouse provides a picture of their lives then. 

As I said, I really struggle with how to organize information – both in the “real” world and online.  I keep something I call a “memory box” where I store all sorts of items that have special meaning to me.  But then, where does something like that receipt for our meal at Under the Volcano go?  In the Memory Box?  In the London box?  In the Visa file folder?  (It went in the London box if you're curious.)

The same thing happens online.  I recently came across an article (which I of course can't find again!) which says people approach the web in two ways – there are the “settlers” who have their regular stops – Google, e-mail, online banking, perhaps a newspaper site and one or two other favourites – and rarely venture beyond this.  Then there are the “explorers” who lose hours browsing various sites, sampling all types of unique sites and making heavy use of “aggregators” like MetaFilter and Digg to keep up on the latest trends, ideas and memes online.  I think I fit firmly in the latter camp.  But now, if I could just find a way to keep track of all of that so, like that article, I can retrieve it again when needed.  (Edit: Found it – it was an article in the Globe & Mail a few days ago.  And the author didn't use the terms “settler” and “explorer” – I just made that up.  Uhm, anybody know a good trademark lawyer?)

(In the interest of creating order but also collecting information, I have done some tweaking on this blog.  I've dropped the link to my personal bookmarks from the header of this site and you'll now find a list of my most recent Delicious bookmarks on the righthand side instead.  There's now a link to the most recent comments on the left side and there's
also a “log-in” form at the bottom right column where you can create an account if you want and which, in turn, will make it quicker and easier to leave comments.)

Posted 30 January 2007 § Library § LibrarySchool § Main Page ‡ Comments (7) °

Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom – Cory Doctorow

Partly inspired by the upcoming keynote speaker at the OLA SuperConference, I finally picked up “Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom“, the first novel by SF author, former Torontonian, and co-editor of Boing Boing (one of the world's most popular blogs for those not in the know), Cory Doctorow. 

Corey R. (also a soon-to-be first time novelist) is both a professional reviewer and much more well-read than I so I'll link to his recent review of this book instead of trying to hobble together one of my own.  I agree with Corey that it's a pretty big achievement to create a realistic futuristic world that, given the pace of technological advances, seems increasingly plausible.  One of the big conceits in the book is that money doesn't exist in the future and instead, people trade “Whuffie” which is like electronic credit that denotes esteem/gratitude/sympathy. 

That's a pretty interesting concept as we're already seeing versions of this in online communities, mostly notably Digg where users submit stories and then have both the stories and their comments voted on, positively and negatively, by other users.  [Edit: Wikipedia has an entry on Wuffie that names a couple other sites using the concept – EBay for “feedback ratings” and Slashdot for “karma”]

Doctorow is also a major player in the Creative Commons movement so even if science fiction and “Whuffie” aren't your thing, you should definitely try to check him out at the OLA SuperConference.

Posted 30 January 2007 § Main Page § PopCulture ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged:

Ha Ha Ha

To combine this as both a baby and a library-related post, I'll go back to an entry from a couple weeks ago where I talked about my favourite presentation from my year in library school which was on the topic of online broadcasting. 

One of the main points I discussed in the presentation is how we're now at a point where web-based video clips are picking up audiences that rival their traditional broadcast counterparts which, in turn, will be one of the main factors in the shift from television as the dominant communications medium in our society to the Internet. 

One example I used in my presentation was the daytime talk show, The View, which averages about 2 million viewers per episode but how a clip where Danny DeVito appeared after a night of heavy drinking had amassed nearly that many views within a couple days after being posted.  And unlike traditional broadcasts where something is lost the minute it's shown (unless it reaches syndication or gets a release on DVD – both unlikely scenarios for a morning gabfest), this clip would continue to gain views as it circulated as a meme within  cyberspace and beyond.  Another related factor was the back and forth with traditional broadcasting.  For example, a supper news broadcast might mention the incident, sending even more viewers to the Internet to view the clip.  Or someone who only saw the clip online might watch “The View” to see more about what happens on the program.  (CBS entered an arrangement with YouTube to post clips from their late night programs and saw significant gains in their ratings.)

Which is all a long way to say, can you believe that eight million people have viewed the clip I linked to above?  Wow!

Posted 29 January 2007 § Baby § Library § Main Page § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Oscar's First Photo

We had an ultrasound today.  Unfortunately they didn't provide VHS or DVD video nor allow us to record even a short clip ourselves (it is a diagnostic procedure after all.  But man, are they ever missing out on a guaranteed cash cow if they provided that option!) 

Anyhow, they did give us some photos including the first 3-D shot of “Oscar Beckham Hammond”.  (Uhm, I think I mentioned before that Oscar isn't the actual name we've picked.  Neither is “Beckham” but it is new.  I thought baby needed a middle name too, that, like Oscar for his/her early grouchiness, reflected his/her current athletic regime of kicking Shea in the kidneys every five minutes!)   Here's Oscar…



Shea's got a few more on her Flickr account.  She also finally found the perfect t-shirt.  Too bad they only had small sizes and it won't fit in a few more weeks.  (And on a completely personal note, doesn't she look smokin' in this photo? )


Posted 27 January 2007 § Baby § Main Page § Photo ‡ Comments (4) °

Friday Fun Link – "Homelessness: It's No Game" (Jan 27, 2007)

Beyond the irony of that I’m writing about a game called
“Homelessness: It’s No Game”, there are other problems with this Flash
project. But before I get to that, here’s some background from the
designer:

“I created this game
for a graduate-level course on game design I took at the School of
Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University*. The intent
of the game is to raise awareness of the situation faced by the
homeless, as well as to aid in my research into the effectiveness of
serious videogames.”

Although the concept has lots of
potential, the execution (at least in the current version) is lacking.
This Flash-based game asks you to simulate life on the streets by
taking on the role of a homeless person. You wander a small area of a
city picking up bottles and other items to sell, panhandling, dealing
with hunger pangs and a heavy bladder, visiting parks, diners and
churches while avoiding trouble and trying to earn “esteem” points by
your actions.

You have a 24-hour window (accelerated obviously) to earn
24 esteem points. If you do, you “win” the game. If not…well, I don’t
know what happens if not since I’ve played the game four times and
never “lost” once (I think my record was raising my esteem enough was
before 10 hours were up out of the 24.)

The author promises
future revisions to improve the game in various ways – a larger area to
explore, more visual elements, localization options and unique
characters. Hopefully this comes to pass as the game has potential to
at least give a taste of what it is like to be on the streets – even if
only virtually and from behind the safety of a computer screen. And
it’s definitely a bit more meaningful than games dedicated to stealing cars, killing enemies or eating magic mushrooms that give you amazing jumping powers.

Posted 26 January 2007 § FridayFunLink § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Head Tale – Anniversary Survey

Today is 11 months to the day that I started this blog.  And sure, if I wanted to be like everybody else, I could wait another month to post this on my much more appropriate one year anniversary.  But since I'm thinking of it right now, I'll post it now instead…

I've created a really quick ten question survey about this blog and would appreciate if you would take a couple minutes to fill it out. 

This blog software gives me aggregate information for all visitors – how many come, when they come, where they come from and stuff like that – but this is a way for me to get some more specific details about how people get to this blog, what they read when they're here and so on. 

Again, if you can take a couple minutes to fill out the survey, I would really appreciate it. 

Posted 26 January 2007 § Blog § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °