So that's what a Tamalanch looks like

Yesterday, I discovered what blog traffic looks like.

Today, I discovered what a Tamalanch looks like.

Are my blog stats flipping me the bird????

Um, wow.

Greetings, visitors

Welcome to everyone coming over from Tam's place. Take a look around, grab a seat, put your feet up, stay awhile.

The fridge is in the kitchen, and there's one in the garage too. Help yourself to whatever you'd like, just please use the recycle bin as appropriate.

In all seriousness, I hope you like what you find, and will continue to visit and read my meager scribblings.

So that's what traffic looks like.

So this is what happens when you get linked to by both Borepatch and Jay G.

And yes, unfortunately, that is a HUGE day in visits for me.

Maybe I should write more, or better, or something.

Now I know how Borepatch feels

(well, sort of, but in a much smaller fashion).

Borepatch has occasionally talked about his creative process, and how he goes about blogging. Part of that, for him, is the creation of an über-post, and how the concept for it will rattle around in his brain for a while.

Well, I either have mental indigestion or I have the idea for an über-post or two rattling around in my head.

Hopefully I'll be able to turn these into something worth your reading.

As a teaser, one is about the financial meltdown, and the housing markets in particular. The other is about 2A rights, and how they balance against other fundamental rights.

We'll see what I can come up with.

Follow-up on tracking RSS feed stats

On Thursday, I asked a question about tracking RSS views and stats via Sitemeter.

As I expected, nobody really knew anything. However, having done some research, I have stumbled upon the answer. I had previously noticed that a lot of people used Feedburner to provide their RSS feeds. I wondered about that, because most blogging platforms provided native RSS support.

Well, it turns out that Feedburner is for RSS feeds what Sitemeter or Google Analytics is for web sites. So, I've changed my feed settings in blogger to point to feed burner, and I've changed the RSS chicklet on my site as well.

I can now see how many subscribers there are to my feed, and which entries they actually click through on. So, if you already knew that, I'm sure you're chuckling and smirking behind your hand, but if you didn't, hopefully this is useful for you.