Yes, that's about it, Dominic, I think when considering those exploding hit
numbers, "one and ten pairs of human eyeballs", and the rest are bots, and
thanks too for the url to the Bernstein article. I agree with many of his points
but was glad for his pointedly funny take on National Poetry Month, for there's
so much in this, that's ridiculous: the idea that there's some "mass audience"
avoided by 'the arrogance' of the poet and an 'amplified bard' would re-
establish that ancient and mythic connection.
Best,
Rebecca
---- Original message ----
>Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 12:15:44 +0000
>From: Dominic Fox <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: good news about my website
>To: [log in to unmask]
>
>I get circa 300-400 page hits a day. The great majority of these are
>either search engine bots, attempts to post comment spam to my blog,
>or refresh requests from the RSS feed aggregators of the two or three
>people who actually subscribe to my blog feed. I reckon between one
>and ten pairs of human eyeballs sweep across my site each day, and out
>of those maybe three or four found something they actually wanted to
>find (based on referrer URLs from search engines, by means of which it
>is possible to discover what a visitor to your site was actually
>looking for).
>
>Dominic
>
>--
>// Alas, this comparison function can't be total:
>// bottom is beyond comparison. - Oleg Kiselyov
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