One of the cool things about website statistic counters is they not only tell how many people view your page, but also where in the world your visitors are coming from. They even plot them out on a handy map, and sometimes it's surprising. Like this morning, I was checking, and one visit came from Almaty, the capital of Kazakhstan, which Americans are hearing a lot about due to the popular movie Borat. Another came from Riyahd, Saudi Arabia, and another from Midrand, South Africa. And a few dozen scattered around Europe and Scandanavia...all within the past day or so.
So, if you are a visitor from outside the US, why not just take a minute and leave a comment? I'd love to hear from you.
By the way, I know the Borat movie presents a distorted view of Kazakhstan and its culture, so no need to e-mail me about that. Actually, I saw an interesting presentation a couple weeks ago about "the 'Stans" and how central Asia seems to be sitting on the world's biggest oil reserves, and how Kazakhstan stands to become a very wealthy nation if outside interests and internal corruption don't manage to somehow steal all the money.
Here's Amber from a while back looking heavenly.
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Borat, is that you?
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For what it's worth, a certain percentage of people use proxy servers and spoof their IP address, which fools the analytics tools that try to plot users geographically. It's pretty common for spammers to use those tricks, and it's more than possible that such hits are simply bots crawling the web scraping email addresses.
It's not impossible that people in the Middle East, China, third world and other non-English speaking countries, etc. are coming across your web site, but I tend to be pretty skeptical when I see that kind of traffic.
Hmmm... guess I knew that, but didn't stop to think how it would apply to the web stats. Well, so much for being an international photographic personality.
Notwithstanding, I'd still like to hear from any surfers from outside the US. Or for that matter, outside Ohio. ;)
OK! Best regards from Portugal.
Just to say i'm coming here everyday. It's amazing to read you and see your excellent photographs.
Well, I'm in NJ - a few hundred miles from Ohio at least. Hello from the east coast!
I love your work, by the way.
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