“Where do you lot get the smile icons from?”
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I think they just get substituted in by magic when you do a text one. I see “preview” has gone missing, damn, I could have tried it out without embarrassing myself when I’m wrong. Ho hum, let’s see … write colon hyphen close-paren, like :-), and semicolon hyphen close-paren, 😉
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aand, push the button to find out if I’m right …
Pesky missing preview, I feel like having a play. What does it recognise ? … *:-))
Scouse Billy
Lol, I wish I could claim credit but I suspect they pick up on key words/phrases like “Knights Templar”.
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Just type a ; followed by a ) and you get 😉 🙂
“I suspect they pick up on key words/phrases like …”
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I bet you actually wrote something completely different there, and it changed it … ;-~
dreoilin
“smile icons”
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They’re awful. I often add a smile at the end of a sentence and then look in horror at the yellow monstrosity that appears at the end of my comment … Oh, and it would be great to have preview, as Richard says. I have no idea what comment platform we’re on now?
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Anyway … cheers, Craig. Been a busy place here lately!
Just out of interest, has the USA comprised a significant component of the blog readership in recent times? In other words, has it ‘broken the USA’? I’m sure the answer will be, ‘yes’, but still, I think it’d be interesting for us all to know.
Paul Johnston
Wonder if an optional box with location would be useful.
However as a killjoy I would rank a blog on the number of posts not views.
Don’t know what logging software you use but as I said I run loads of WordPresses, Drupals and various wikis and a large percentage of “hits” are not actual humans.
As an example below are two lines from one of our log files:
I keep a pretty close eye on the log files and IP addresses coming in, and actually I have never seen any that look like that. I have no doubt the vast majority of my visitors are human. Whether they are all well motivated is a diffrent question!
Suhayl,
Actually almost from day 1, we have had about a quarter to a third of our readership in the USA, and over half not in the UK. That is why we don’t feature highly in the Wikio UK political blog rankings, which are based only on links from other UK political blogs – ie points are given mostly for constant political party group linking. Almost all our incoming links are from outside the UK.
I will try to post a copy of the visitor map, though obviously this varies with time of day.
Scouse Billy
Craig,
I must confess that I tend to browse using TOR (the onion router) so will appear to be coming from an IP relay which is nearly always outside the UK.
Once TOR is enabled it applies to all sites I visit so sorry if I bugger up the stats a wee bit.
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Rather than posting a link. I want to ask your thoughts regarding Susan Lindauer (ex-CIA). She has posted some really heavy stuff on NATO-backed rebel atrocities in Libya in the last 24 hours at federaljack.com. Would you mind if I posted the link?
Craig, congratulations on the popularity of your site, and thank you for running my favourite place on the web. I thoroughly enjoyed the party on the previous thread last night; it isn’t often I get the chance to have a conversation like that.
You can post it on the new thread I just started. Actually you can post any links you like. I’ll just make fun of some of them,
Scouse Billy
Craig, I look forward to that… 😉
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P.S. both Tarpley and Madsen have been in Tripoli recently and neither has trotted out the MSM b/s – I applaud them.
Anon
Craig, well done. It may be cause for a double “Yaay! Let’s drink!”, do you know if Charles Crawford`s “Blogoir” has had its 4th visitor yet?.
Congratulations, Craig!
I check out the water here whenever the surf’s up. 🙂
MR Bill
Greetings and Congratulations from Trendy Blue Ridge GA!
I’ve been posting the “Is Breivik in this Picture” link at the sites I frequent (including the NY Times)…
You deserve greater readership.
Hmm, I would guess that he was a mason and is expecting some sort of ‘supermarket style’ benefit or prize.
Your post on Burnes, Masons… was briefly in the top 10 at newsnow.co.uk/comspiracy theories 😉
Cheers.
scousebilly
must have been due to you linking to that nutter bloke!!! Where do you lot get the smile icons from?
“Where do you lot get the smile icons from?”
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I think they just get substituted in by magic when you do a text one. I see “preview” has gone missing, damn, I could have tried it out without embarrassing myself when I’m wrong. Ho hum, let’s see … write colon hyphen close-paren, like :-), and semicolon hyphen close-paren, 😉
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aand, push the button to find out if I’m right …
Heh. *
Pesky missing preview, I feel like having a play. What does it recognise ? … *:-))
Lol, I wish I could claim credit but I suspect they pick up on key words/phrases like “Knights Templar”.
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Just type a ; followed by a ) and you get 😉 🙂
Bah. Some machines have no imagination. :-(?
“I suspect they pick up on key words/phrases like …”
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I bet you actually wrote something completely different there, and it changed it … ;-~
“smile icons”
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They’re awful. I often add a smile at the end of a sentence and then look in horror at the yellow monstrosity that appears at the end of my comment … Oh, and it would be great to have preview, as Richard says. I have no idea what comment platform we’re on now?
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Anyway … cheers, Craig. Been a busy place here lately!
Does it do this one? :p [?]
No tongues then 🙂
Dreoilin
Evidently not!
I fear you are all taking the Let’s Drink! bit too seriously.
Too seriously ? How can that be ? Entirely frivolous, I assure you.
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I bet it can’t do one with a pointy hat with a bobble on top, either. *<;->
Many thanks and lots of cheer.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/cheers
🙂 Well done Craig.
Congratulations, Craig! Well-deserved indeed.
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Just out of interest, has the USA comprised a significant component of the blog readership in recent times? In other words, has it ‘broken the USA’? I’m sure the answer will be, ‘yes’, but still, I think it’d be interesting for us all to know.
Wonder if an optional box with location would be useful.
However as a killjoy I would rank a blog on the number of posts not views.
Don’t know what logging software you use but as I said I run loads of WordPresses, Drupals and various wikis and a large percentage of “hits” are not actual humans.
As an example below are two lines from one of our log files:
95.108.246.253 – – [19/Jul/2011:15:44:14 +0100] “GET /sites/default/files/Knowing%20what%20to%20do.pdf HTTP/1.1” 200 425329
194.60.38.10 – – [19/Jul/2011:08:35:47 +0100] “GET /sites/default/files/Knowing%20what%20to%20do.pdf HTTP/1.1” 200 425329
One of my jobs is to disambiguate log entries like the above, the first is a Russian search engine, the second is a British Government machine 🙂
If you want that sort of analysis or your log files let me know 😉
Paul,
I keep a pretty close eye on the log files and IP addresses coming in, and actually I have never seen any that look like that. I have no doubt the vast majority of my visitors are human. Whether they are all well motivated is a diffrent question!
Suhayl,
Actually almost from day 1, we have had about a quarter to a third of our readership in the USA, and over half not in the UK. That is why we don’t feature highly in the Wikio UK political blog rankings, which are based only on links from other UK political blogs – ie points are given mostly for constant political party group linking. Almost all our incoming links are from outside the UK.
I will try to post a copy of the visitor map, though obviously this varies with time of day.
Craig,
I must confess that I tend to browse using TOR (the onion router) so will appear to be coming from an IP relay which is nearly always outside the UK.
Once TOR is enabled it applies to all sites I visit so sorry if I bugger up the stats a wee bit.
.
Rather than posting a link. I want to ask your thoughts regarding Susan Lindauer (ex-CIA). She has posted some really heavy stuff on NATO-backed rebel atrocities in Libya in the last 24 hours at federaljack.com. Would you mind if I posted the link?
Congartulations Craig,
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Craig, congratulations on the popularity of your site, and thank you for running my favourite place on the web. I thoroughly enjoyed the party on the previous thread last night; it isn’t often I get the chance to have a conversation like that.
Billy,
You can post it on the new thread I just started. Actually you can post any links you like. I’ll just make fun of some of them,
Craig, I look forward to that… 😉
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P.S. both Tarpley and Madsen have been in Tripoli recently and neither has trotted out the MSM b/s – I applaud them.
Craig, well done. It may be cause for a double “Yaay! Let’s drink!”, do you know if Charles Crawford`s “Blogoir” has had its 4th visitor yet?.
Here’s an interesting civil disobedience proposal in the US.
Occupy Wall Street. DEMOCRACY NOT CORPORATOCRACY:
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http://www.adbusters.org/blogs/adbusters-blog/occupywallstreet.html
Congratulations, Craig!
I check out the water here whenever the surf’s up. 🙂
Greetings and Congratulations from Trendy Blue Ridge GA!
I’ve been posting the “Is Breivik in this Picture” link at the sites I frequent (including the NY Times)…
You deserve greater readership.