Here's the latest nugget from Chris at CDBaby.org which caught my eye:
". . .Derek programmed the old hits counter to tally bot hits from search engines (Google, Yahoo, etc.). . ." (The old hits counter) "also credited spam bots as actual valid hits."
Furthermore, Chris wrote: ". . .when our IT team redesigned the hits counter they made sure it only tallied up valid hits from real actual people."
This, Chris explains, is the reason many artists are seeing fewer hits on their counters since the function was recently restored by popular demand.
Just thought I'd pass that along. . .
Newspapers can be jerks
-
In my paper on the California Journalism Preservation Act (CJPA), I examine
the history of newspapers’ hostile reception of new technologies and
competit...
4 days ago