I've been publishing to this domain since 1999 in some fashion. I've been blogging since August of 2004. I rolled over to Drupal in November of 2006 at which point I started tracking stats. Traffic has had its ups and downs but basically has been increasing. Moving to Drupal improved my SEO rankings quite nicely.

This past month has been a bit of a bonanza of traffic on this little site of mine. First of all, Drupalcon Paris occurred. I was lucky enough to be there and I took quite a bit of video. Those videos were available within a day or two of the session itself. September 7-9th proved to be some of the heaviest traffic I've ever enjoyed. Part of that had to do with posting four sets of videos. I must admit to a tiny bit of embarrassment--the videos were pretty shaky as I hadn't packed a tripod. Some videos weren't complete due to battery failures. But, by in large, folks seemed pretty happy they were being popped up on line quickly. This had come off of a nice series of videos at Drupalcamp Colorado that I had posted in June and July.

Tweetie vs Tweetdeck

I've been using Tweetdeck for quite some time. I really like the sleek columns that allow for easy filters on keywords. Having real-time updates on those filters is useful if you are trying track a single subject like "Drupal" or "pingV". The filters are saved when you close down Tweetdeck which is handy because the Adobe Air application appears to have memory leaks.

Jott! is a note taking service for your cell phone.  Basically the idea is this--you need to take a note, you don't have the time to write it down (or don't have a pen and paper handy), but you do have your cell phone.  Speed dial Jott!'s number, say "Jott Note" and carefully say your note.  Within a few minutes it has been transcribed and is available to you on the Web.

You are busy posting to your Twitterfeed at a conference. You have colleagues doing the same with the plan of combining your collective feeds into a company blog post. As the speech you are listening to comes to the keynote climax--questions, postings, answers, insights are all being fed into Twitter--you suddenly find yourself on the whale screen. Twitter, once again has come crashing down.

Twitterspy is a site full of ajaxy goodness. It follows the live twitter stream and automatically updates the page every second or two. The stream runs between thirty seconds and a minute and half behind the live stream. New tweets pop up at the top of the page and the old ones fade slowly out at the bottom of the screen.

I am somewhat dubious that the site actually displays all live tweets. Each post appears about a second or so apart. I'm pretty sure that Twitter has more than 60 posts per minute. Posts that I've made don't seem to appear on the page. MicheleM (the developer) has started a Google Group discussion to solicit feedback on the project which sheds light on why this might occur. First, Andrew Badera surmises the public timeline only updates once every four minutes. Second, Nathan Rixham goes on to indicate that there is no easy way to poll often enough to capture all tweets as there are 300-400 tweets per minute running through the system.

This is a pretty neat proof of concept, but is limited in it's use. There are no settings that allow you to target an individual or your own stream. I would likely make use of it frequently if I could customize the output. So @michelem, any plans to make this a configurable tool? That would turn this from being a neat experiment to being a truly cool tool.