This blog is dying?
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Reading Matty’s last comment here, not placed online, in
which he spewed venom because I had irritated him with my narcissistic
posterings, stated that this blog was dying,
He was partially correct: Comments have become sparse. And
Tim Hebert noted how many were pouring in during the Roswell slide fiasco but
no longer.
I told Tim (and have mentioned this in the past here) that I
found, during the Kodak slide period [2014/2015], 1000 comments that never saw the
light of day because Blogger didn’t notify me via e-mail that I had comments to
moderate, and by my not checking the Blogger area where comments showed up, I
missed placing those comments online.
That was a heady period, when everyone was blogging or
commenting, and when the Kodak slide proved to be from a museum’s mummy
exhibition, the UFO community went into a funk, from which it still has not
recovered.
As for this blog today, a former friend of mine insists that
the bulk of “readers” or “visitors” are bots.
And he sent this:
``"Mozilla/4.08 [en] (Win98; I ;Nav)"
(\"%{User-agent}i\")
The User-Agent HTTP request header. This is the identifying
information that the client browser reports about itself.``
“Bots ALWAYS forge the User-Agent headers to make it seem
like they are a legitimate browser. If they didn't do that, it'd be VERY easy
to block them from your web server.”
Here is what Blogger shows as my number of visitors:
And where they allegedly come from:
Google tells me that Blogger’s analytics prevents bots from
Blog intrusions. (I’m accepting their word on this, cautiously.)
But, no matter what, I know that I have quite a few readers,
many commenting at Academia.edu about postings or mentioning my postings on
Facebook.
Being read is all that a writer – one even as bad as me –
wants, whether being read via a book, a magazine, newspaper reportage, or just
in a blog or Facebook posting.
Readers can’t comment after reading a book or magazine piece
and need to send a Letter to the Editor about a newspaper report.
So a writer often has no idea how his or her script is being
interpreted or enjoyed, sometimes deplored.
That’s why I keep harping about comments here. I like to get
feedback, about things that I offer up for visitor edification – sources that
are not mine but seem worthy of a reading.
I hope that what I’m inputting here is worth a visitor’s
time, even for those bots, and will keep at it as long as Blogger continues to tell me
that this blog has legitimate readers or visitors.
I can’t help myself, narcissistic and bastardy as I seem to
be to some.
RR
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Friday, May 22, 2020
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