One of the greatest pleasures of having a blog is viewing the sitemeter and noticing the broad geographic scope of the visitors. It’s a graphic demonstration of how the internet reaches around the globe, even with a moderate-sized blog such as this.
It’s particularly apparent late at night, when much of the Western Hemisphere is asleep. If I happen to be awake and think to click on the “countries” bar on my sitemeter, a lovely pie-chart comes up, like this one:
This represents the most recent 100 visitors to my blog in the very wee hours of a certain morning. It’s typical of what I see late at night; just another example of the power of the internet, and how it can unite us in ways hardly dreamt of only a few short years ago.
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Previously a lifelong Democrat, born in New York and living in New England, surrounded by liberals on all sides, I've found myself slowly but surely
February 9th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
Well, the ‘country’ shown of the visitors is where the ISP is, yeah?
Heh…. The 1% in Cyprus is probably “Truth”.
Swaziland?! They gotta be on dial-up….
So how did you end up with such virulent NZ trolls?
February 9th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
I find interesting the percentage from Australia.
February 9th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
Dear neo,
A year ago I came to your site accidentally, but when I read some stuff at that time I went off it.
Then I came back after many months, starting commenting here to put other side view of some “Extremists” comments made here.
Day after day I start love to visiting to see very interesting and informative stuff which much different from other sites.
In the end please keep up wishing you and our dear friends all the best on hope we all understand each other in a civilized way that fruiting friendship with this “Big Internet Village” we living in now.
All the best neo.
February 10th, 2008 at 9:59 am
And some of our ISP show up in the States when we are actually deployed over in the sandbox…..your we hours are mid-day for us.
February 10th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
My family keeps a blog that is primarily for communication with one another and with a few good friends. We do nothing to publicize it and never intended to try to find a wider audience. Yet even so, we get a small but steady traffic from other countries — Hong Kong, Great Britain, Brazil. Because of SiteMeter, we can tell not only where they came from, but often, why they came — the Google or Yahoo search or the occasional link from somebody else’s blog or whatever. Absolutely fascinating. Unimaginable, only a few years ago. And so much fun!!
February 10th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
I remember a neighbor having a short wave radio as a kid. I recall thinking how cool it was that he talked to people all over the world.
This is a truly amazing communication device!
February 10th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
Mazel Tov on being a big hit in Swaziland!
February 10th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
I’m happy to have a place I can talk to people all over the world rather than just US liberals or conservatives.
Neo’s cogent and unique insights and ‘conversion story’ makes it one of the most interesting places on the web.
(if I can’t sit down with ‘Truth’ over some turkish coffee and a nargila and discuss ME politics, this is the next best!)
February 11th, 2008 at 2:17 am
Hello! from Malaysia. Once of that miniscule 1%. I happen to be a reformed liberal too, so to speak.
Like the blog, hope to see much more from you.
February 11th, 2008 at 8:12 am
Congratulations on your metamorphosis into a NeoCon. The Free World is facing the greatest crisis from Totalitarian Regimes.
%age might be of ISP location & other factors, b’cuz Australia (with its small population) shouldn’t account for 10%.
February 11th, 2008 at 9:28 am
Swaziland! And a big number from Sweden! Amazing. I must be one of the very very few from China, who apparently didn’t even make 1%, though they now have as many internet users as the US.
February 11th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
Sam S: that was just one particular moment in time. The makeup of the last 100 visitors keeps changing, of course. Sometimes from China, although it’s rare.
February 13th, 2008 at 9:33 am
Are you sure that’s not Switzerland instead of Swaziland?
i’m here! I’M HERE! I’M HERE!!!