Category: Referrer Logs

December 16, 2005 /

I have totally been served. Diane Duane, who evidently reads her referral logs with as much care as I do, wrote me an email confirming the corrections Wheeler offered the other day to my entry about her entry:

Dear Brendan,

Thanks for the mention. :)

BTW, I’ve known about Lulu.com for a long time: I used their pricing model to come up with the range of prices mentioned. Obviously there’s nothing particularly new about the concept…except, maybe, not giving up on a situation that common publishing wisdom has routinely up until now dismissed as a lost cause. But much has changed: so we’ll see what happens.

My main point was that, for the size of book in question, POD is still kinda pricey, and I wanted to see if there was any interest among the readership before I started serious thinking / work on the project. Fortunately it looks like there’s a fair amount of interest: now all I have to do is (a) consider my schedule and (b) convince my agent. ;)

Best! D.

Diane Duane wrote me an email!

Diane Duane wrote me an email!

September 29, 2005 /

Disturbing Search Result (that led somebody to my site):

tv remote control fall down and don't work

Ten bucks says that’s a Kentucky original!

Getting more hits for “thinspiration,” too: Ana has moved up to the #84 Google result.

I am waiting for familiar resolve

September 16, 2005 /

Got the first search referral for “thinspiration” today. That story is currently the #113 Google result for it. Think I’ll get any mail?

I’m not sure whether it counts as irony that I only realized this morning that “Me and Mia,” one of my favorite songs ever, is about, um, ana and mia. Ted Leo should enunciate better, and I should listen harder. It’s a vicious song.

September 5, 2005 /

Search query that led a human to my site:

gnat eating spiders

I do not want to meet that gnat.

Site news that nobody cares about

July 7, 2005 /

Xorph.com served six hundred-odd pages to the Universitat Politècnica De Catalunya yesterday, which presumably means somebody in their CS department told a bot to crawl me–I’ve never seen them in my referral logs before. Anyone else get similar hits?

Also, Dreamhost now has a thing where they up your bandwidth and disk space quotas every week. It’s not much in terms of disk space–like 20Mb a week–but the bandwidth grows by a gig a week (both for the cheapest plan). Dreamhost is pretty great.

THE BUZZBOARD

June 20, 2005 /

By far the most popular referral I have ever had to this site, or anyway one of its images, is some people who think my bad haircut two years ago was, in fact, a good haircut.

The IdiotCam©: Bringing People Together

May 18, 2005 /

I keep meaning to talk about Vocabulary Notebook! Why haven’t I talked about Vocabulary Notebook yet! Ack!

So basically Jeiel (and, sometimes, his cousin Mia) checks the Word-of-the-Day lists at MW or NYT or wherever and finds a cool word, and writes a story using it. I think this is a fantastic illustration of an inspiring constraint–he starts every story with a limitation and the seed of an idea, and they’re different every time.

Jeiel’s stated that VN was inspired by Anacrusis, which is very flattering (and is how I found the site in the first place). This isn’t a sneaky back-pat loop, though; the stories he writes are good, and they’re getting better.