Visits still up, pages down, bandwidth crisis avoided but what’s up?

Interesting stuff… so the measures I put in place seem to have calmed the bandwidth issues but the number of visitors is still ridiculously high (this is just incsub.org btw… not edublogs) although awstats thinks they are individuals… don’t see how I can suddenly have picked up an extra 2000 uniques a day though, wonder …

Google Talk

Hurrah, Google Talk works using my proxycap so now you might actually be able to contact me (still can’t get Skype or Gizmo going). ID: jamesnfarmer Add me to ya list ! Oh, and if you want a gmail invite (you need gmail to use this) just leave a comment.

Bandwidth buggers quelled

Phew… fingers crossed a combination of bad behaviour and referrer karma has taken the meat out if the extra 10-15k page views incsub was getting every day and bandwidth looks like it’s back to normal. Big thanks to D’Arcy for suggesting RK, much appreciated!

Scarily good spam

Check this out… if it’s computer generated it’s great: “I think the concept of utilizing blogs as a educational resource online is a fabulous idea. In fact, if I’m not mistaken, I read a piece on ASU as they are taking it a step and setting aside a full set of courses on how to …

Elgg advisory board

I’m delighted to be on the Elgg advisory board. WPMU, Elgg and a host of other developed and developing platforms are making for pretty exciting times ahead on the old ship social software!

the edublogs 500

Well, had a minor username stuff up over the upgrade (contact me if that affects you and I’ll fix it… just not over the weekend ;) but things are still goin’ along pretty strong in edublogland. “There are currently 517 edublogs.” Keep on spreading the good word!