A couple of random things

Before I get to a few things I thing are important enough to blog about (and after you have read them):

I got a warning email from Earthlink that I am approaching my bandwidth limit for the month, which is 1 gig. This raises the possibility the P6 will become unavailable at the end of the month. If this happens, it's not because I stopped blogging or that Homeland Security has arrested me. Well, it probably doesn't mean I was arrested.

There are four primary causes for this, I think.

1. I blog too damn much
2. Reloading the page to look for misspellings, grammar problems, etc.
3. For several reasons I had set the page to display eight days worth of posts
4. I had a post with the name of a certain basketball player

I respond to these issues as follows

1. Oh, well...
2. I'm using a desktop posting tool with spell check and good preview capability
3. I've cut it back to display four days worth of posts
4. I'm going to consciously avoid posting about potentially sensational news items, since you will get all the exposure to them you can handle

That last one is the most annoying to me. You love to get traffic, but some of it is actually useless. And I'm probably pretty unusual in looking for fewer Google hits.

Speaking of Google hits, I have three posts with the phrase "Black History Month" in July. But if you google the phrase you find three results(or five, two of which are eliminated as being too similar to others). Number one is Frank's blog, I Protest, ironically pointing to one of my posts. Number two is a Blogspot blog which name I don't remember offhand, pointing to a post mentioning Aaron McGruder's recent deal with Sony Entertainment. Number three is yours truly. Strikes me the formula gives more weight to independent domains than free space for personal pages, which kinda makes sense.

posted by Prometheus 6 at 7/22/2003 03:35:06 PM |