When we relaunched the updated blog a few months ago we added a small feature that I think is kind of cool. It's a map that shows the last 100 visitors to the blog. Currently, you can find this function at the top of the next column (I move it around from time to time). You'll see that it's a small map of the world. The dots on it represent the last 100 visitors to the blog (we get several thousand visitors an hour, so you're seeing the people who visited the blog in the past 2 minutes or so:
And before anyone worries about privacy, that train left the station a long time ago. Every Web site you visit already has this information on you. Fortunately, they don't necessarily know WHO you are or exactly WHERE you are, but they can figure that out too, if they're smart. Anyway, back to the fun stuff, you can click the image of the world and it will open a page where you can look at the detailed information about where everyone is coming from:
And then if you really want to get creepy, you can zoom in and see where the visitor is getting their local Internet service from (it's not where the person physically is, but rather where their local Internet service is coming from (more or less)):
And here's a look at the recent visitors from the US, Canada and Mexico - and some loser apparently reading our blog while on vacation in Cancun :-)
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