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A Little Corner of One's Own, or Radio and Blogging, a few more weeks on: Still, it would even help to get just a few referrer entries from somewhere besides http://127.0.0.1:5335/...
[Dr. Bonzo: Bonzo I/O]

A long time ago, February 27, 2002, to be exact, I quoted Andrew Sullivan in pages I wrote using blogger, days before Ernie the Attorney 'blogged his first post. Mr. Sullivan discussed how 'blogs empower the individual writer by lowering the costs of publishing. I wrote:

To write, the costs of entry are low, as soon as you become literate. To publish, however, the costs were high: ink, paper, and distribution. And so relatively few published. Now, the challenge is not to be published, but to be read.

I found that Dr. Bonzo has read my blatherings at least once, courtesy of Google. Simplified exposure of subscription lists should help broaden the distribution.

Reading your web logs, or an analysis of them, is more direct than Google, but doesn't provide the feedback that a quote and a link do. On the other hand, it can tell you that you have exactly two subscribers with static IP addresses:

%gzcat www.20020528.gz | grep rss.xml | awk '{print $1 " " $11}' | sort -u
12.xxx.xxx.xxx "http://frontier.userland.com/xmlAggregator"
150.xxx.xxx.xxx "http://frontier.userland.com/xmlAggregator"

8:54:50 PM # Google It!
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