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A few unexpected twists and turns to the day today... Looks like my server IP address changed during the night and that change wasn't detected and reported to the DNS service - sorry if the site seemed down and email didn't work for a while. It should be fixed now (spam's coming in again, yay), and while looking for the cause of the problem I also noticed some very interesting stats over at ZoneEdit [4], who are my DNS host: turns out that DNS lookups of the media-culture.org.au domains for M/C - Media and Culture [5] have grown almost exponentially over the last years!
Domain | From Date | To Date | Lookups |
media-culture.org.au [6] | 04/29/2002 | 04/29/2003 | 223,729 |
media-culture.org.au [6] | 04/29/2003 | 04/29/2004 | 312,714 |
media-culture.org.au [6] | 04/29/2004 | 03/31/2005 | 1,000,000 |
Lookups for snurb.info haven't grown quite as fast, but there's still a good upwards trend (and note that the last data is from almost a year ago, before I started blogging in earnest).
Domain | From Date | To Date | Lookups |
snurb.info [7] | 10/23/2001 | 10/23/2002 | 9,362 |
snurb.info [7] | 10/23/2002 | 10/23/2003 | 23,677 |
snurb.info [7] | 10/23/2003 | 10/23/2004 | 26,547 |
The downside is that because of the greater traffic coming through I think they'll start charging for hosting the M/C domain now. The price of success...
Also today was the first lecture of a guest to the just-launched Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation [8] (iCi) at QUT (which, having been launched on 10 August, now shares a birthday with me) - they were hosting Stephen Coleman [9] from the Oxford Internet Institute. An interesting study of voters in the UK Big Brother and the 2005 UK elections, which I'll try and post some more notes about later.
A while before Stephen's talk, some of us were invited to meet with him in John Hartley [10]'s office - I'm happy to say that John has become key promoter for my book [11] recently, and Stephen (whose work is mainly in e-democracy) was very interested in my study of participatory online journalism. No doubt there will be more work on this and related areas as iCi gets going!
Links
[1] http://snurb.info/taxonomy/term/34
[2] http://snurb.info/taxonomy/term/1
[3] http://snurb.info/taxonomy/term/15
[4] http://zoneedit.com/
[5] http://www.media-culture.org.au
[6] http://snurb.info/edit.html%3Fzone%3Dmedia-culture.org.au%26amp%3Btype%3DLOG
[7] http://snurb.info/edit.html%3Fzone%3Dsnurb.info%26amp%3Btype%3DLOG
[8] http://www.dest.gov.au/Ministers/Media/Nelson/2005/06/n1130150605.asp
[9] http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/?rq=faculty_professors
[10] http://www.creativeindustries.qut.edu.au/people/staff/next.jsp?userid=hartleyj&secid=Introduction
[11] http://snurb.info/index.php?q=node/28