Today my July 2005 archive page turned up #8 on a search at search.yahoo.com for:
concrete lesson on how to teach kindergarteners with separation anxiety
Certainly a topic I frequently write about! Aren’t unqualified keyword searches wonderful? You have no idea what you’re missing Mr. Gorman. </sarcasm>
It has really been amazing the things of mine that have been turning up in Google blog searches today. This morning at 4 AM I was #1 for a few searches on keywords from last night’s posts. A few hours later I was #1â3 for "erotic" thanks to this morning’s post about dreaming. Now I imagine it was because the searches had been ordered by date, but still. I find that amazing. I mean really! Someone out there in the blogosphere had to have something more erotic to say then I ever will here.
I’ve also had more visitors today than ever (passed the previous record, whatever it may have been, hours ago) thanks to my post about the Virtual Librarians Journal Club over at LISNews.org last night.
Welcome to everyone coming over! And don’t let the politics and weird dreaming bits worry you. I really am serious about discussing LIS literature.
We’ve gone from 11 registered users which is where we were 10 days ago to 20 as of a few minutes ago! Thank you LISNews.org!
I also seem to have gotten the CSS styles fixed on the Unbearable post. So I am sorry if that longish post ended up in your aggregators more than once.
Seems TypePad wants the CSS styled as such:
- <h2 style="text-align: center;">
- <p style="text-indent: 2em;">
- <ul style="list-style: none;"> Hehe. "I’m smarter than you are blog."
Fine. I can do inline styling you silly program.
It also seems TypePad is failing me on my own trackbacks. I am trying to send trackbacks to multiple posts. I am doing it right. I have verified that I’m doing it right. It is still failing. I already have 2 for this post and I bet one fails. The only thing I can possibly imagine is that for some reason when I hit Return on my Mac keyboard it is not really registering a carriage return for some reason. Although, for all intents and purposes it sure looks like it is. I think I’ll be sending them a trouble ticket soon. First I may try an experiment from the PC. I have searched their Help files and the best they can do is "You can paste more than one URL, separated by carriage returns."
So again, if you start getting repeat posts in your aggregator, I apologize. But I really do usually want these trackbacks to work. For instance, last night’s post that drew an explicit link between 3 others should have sent trackbacks to all three. But only one went through. And I’ve seen the same on several others the last few days. Damn, now I’m up to 3 again tonight. "I will not mention any other posts. I will not mention any other posts….."
Oh. I am really trying to keep up with comments here, keep a close eye on the journal club forum and finish up my semester, besides working, etc. Today was a pretty crappy day, beginning with the whole blogging while dreaming thing. [Whew! Already mentioned that one.] A few decent spots, but a whole lot of not-so-great moments too.
After next Monday I’ll be home free for the school work for the semester, so please bear with me. I love you all and am not trying to ignore you and, am, in fact, trying to not ignore you. It’s all a matter of intention. The intentions are in the right place, but it’s going to be one heck of a next 7 days.
I imagine it is about the same for most of the rest of you over the next few weeks so I’ll be understanding too. And then did someone mention Christmas shopping? Gaah!
Unsurprisingly, my site got quite a few more hits than usual yesterday too…
That I do not doubt at all!
Of course, just a *few* of those were me watching the memberlist go up.
I have been trying to give you credit for hosting though and ensure that I link to you, not just the forum, so I would hope your numbers are going up too.
As it is, I tried to make the primary link(s) to the forum and links to me secondary. I figured I don’t want my ‘other’ views to drive anyone away from journal club. They can always find this blog from within the forum.
I guess you’re to blame for my numbers too. Not that it takes much to send my graphs askew! I’m great at writing poetry although I hardly do!
It kind of makes me feel sneaky and dirty to talk about my stats, I don’t know why. My dad was catching up reading a bunch of my entries a few weeks ago and when he mentioned it to me I said, “I know, I saw the stats,” and it just all felt so… high-budget action thriller government conspriacy-ish to me. Except with personal journals and not national security. I guess that’s a big difference.