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The Associated Press commissioned a review of years of temperature data by independent statisticians, and they’ve definitively refuted the often-repeated canard that the temperature of the Earth is decreasing: Statistics experts reject global cooling claims. The statisticians, reviewing two sets of temperature data, found no trend of falling temperatures ...
Iowahawk crunches some numbers, does the math, and decides it’s all about Balls and Urns.
A new addition to the site, although you wouldn’t know it unless you look at the source code: Mint, a nicely-designed site statistics package with a slick Ajax interface by Shaun Inman. Quickie review: very simple to install, and started working flawlessly right away with almost no perceptible impact on ...
Tech Note, LGF Blog Engine, Javascript, jQuery, Mint, Statistics, Ajax
Just to see what happens, we’ve deleted a bunch of the IP blocking rules from our .htaccess file tonight. Since most bloggers don’t watch for (and block) robots and spammers as diligently as Stinky Beaumont does, I suspect we’ve been artificially deflating our traffic numbers in comparison to other blogs. ...
The Most Recent Referrers page now shows the number of referrals from each domain in the past 24 hours, in a column labeled “Count.” The code tries to identify subdomains like ‘hughhewitt.townhall.com’ or ‘environmentalrepublican.blogspot. com’ or ‘pajamasmedia.com/instapundit&rsqu o; and count them separately, but it ain’t perfect. Lots of exceptions to ...
Some good questions for bloggers who use Sitemeter to record statistics, at Concurring Opinions. The privacy issue is one reason I no longer use Sitemeter at LGF.
Our pagerank is rockin’. Little Green Footballs has now knocked Lionsgate Films out of the top spot in a Google search for LGF.
In 2004, British medical journal The Lancet released a study in the final days leading up to the US presidential election. Their attempted October Surprise was heavily promoted by international media and the international left (there’s a difference?), and claimed the US was responsible for more than 100,000 civilian deaths ...
LGF, Lancet, Iraq, Statistics
LGF was lousy with web bots this morning, using “zombie” machines compromised by viruses, crawling around the site like crazy, probably looking for email addresses to add to spam lists. They’re not finding any, of course, but they’re running up our bandwidth for no reason, so Stinky Beaumont and I ...
LGF, Technical Info, Blogosphere, Traffic, Statistics, Web Crawlers, Bots
One of the nice things about having your web server logs stored in a database is that you can easily see where the traffic is coming from, on a real-time basis. For example, by running this query: SELECT ip, COUNT(*) AS count, referrer, useragent FROM `log` WHERE created ...
LGF, Technical Info, Blogosphere, Traffic, Statistics, Web Crawlers, Bots
I’m disabling the Sitemeter statistics counter at LGF, which has been in place for several years, for these reasons: 1) There are often connectivity issues with Sitemeter’s servers, that affect LGF’s page loading speed. We have enough connectivity issues of our own, and don’t need any more, thank you. 2) ...
Well, we had a Farkalanche today and remained online. Got a bit sluggish when the link first went up on the Fark.com front page, and PHP started acting cranky, but the server never crashed. Dedicated servers are a beautiful thing.
I was reading Dean Barnett’s excellent account of the political boat anchor known as the left-wing blogosphere, and this section got my attention: The blogosphere’s growth has flat-lined, and in many cases shrunk. Last October, the Daily Kos had approximately 23 million visitors. By last month, the number had sunk ...
I received this email from a reader on Sunday evening (but as usual my email is so backed up that I didn’t get to it until now). I’m going to post the whole thing, because it gives the lie to much of the incessant defeatism of the left/media in a ...