Category: Blogging
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Facebook momentum
The Resign, Mr Ahern group continues to grow. Newstalk 106 have been in touch and asked if I could go on the Declan Carty show at around 11.15pm tonight. I should be on, subject to time slot changes. 1,073 members, and counting.
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Happy new year
… to all out there in the blogosphere, to all my readers, and to everyone really. 1,000 strong against Ahern is now the official figure, what a great new year’s gift!
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De Facebook group
The Resign, Mr Ahern Facebook group is close to its first 1,000 members. It has also been listed as one of the most popular groups both in the Ireland network page and the UCC network page. Thanks to everyone for joining, and here’s to the next 1,000 members.
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De Christmas
Happy Christmas to everyone out there… and especially to my readers. 🙂 I received a copy of OS X Leopard, which is rather nice indeed…
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Posting
Posting will be light, I’m weighed down with assignments for university. All should be better at the end of the week.
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1.3 million
This humble blog that I started back in the summer of 2002 passed the 1.3 million visitor mark recently. I am very pleased reaching this round figure, hehe. I’d like to thank everyone for visiting over the years, and I hope to improve on my blogging and my level of output over the coming months.…
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Technorati ranking
I have long since fallen behind in ranking on Technorati, especially after they reviewed the way they rank blogs, prioritising freshness of links over volume. But of late there has been a resurgence, probably because I’ve started blogging daily again. Taint keeps a list of Irish blogs by rank, and at the moment I’m somewhere…
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Adverts
As readers may have noticed I have Google Adsense on my blog. I have installed Donncha’s plugin for only showing irregular visitors who drop in via searches of the archives, but it does not appear to be working. Can anyone advise? I expect that most regular readers hate seeing the ads, so I would like…
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Something odd with Google
For over a year when you typed Burj Dubai into Google, three images appeared at the top of the search. One of them was of a post I wrote, and of a graphic comparing the size of buildings. It generated a good bit of traffic. Then, suddenly, the traffic stopped. The image remains, incidentally the…
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Burj Dubai traffic
A recent surge in traffic was due to a picture I put on here being placed number one on Google. Funny how the surge looks exactly like the building itself.