Best day ever!

Yesterday was the best day yet for visitors to this blog, so I thought it might be worth recording what they were looking at.

There is, of course a list of top posts in the sidebar, but that changes every day, and Amatomu provides some rather pretty statistics.
This time most of the popular posts for the [...]

Blogger working again

On Sunday afternoon my access to Blogger blogs on Blogspot was restored, as mysteriously as it was removed.
I had already moved my family history blog to WordPress, but decided to leave my Notes from underground blog where it is for the time being, though if the access problem recurs I might move it over as [...]

Blogger dead?

Following on my previous post, I’ve found I can post to my Blogger blogs, but can’t read them, and others appear to be having the same problem.
I wonder if ANYONE is able to read Blogger blogs — at least those hosted by Google at Blogspot.
I suspect not, because I tried to ping them on Amatomu, [...]

End of the road for Blogger?

For more than a year now I’ve had a blog on Blogger and one on WordPress, and have posted about equally on both. I found it hard to decide which platform I preferred, but this just about clinches it.
Tried to log in to my Blogger blog a few minutes ago, and got this charming message:

We’re [...]

Bloggers unite for human rights

On 15 May the usual crowd will be having a synchroblog on the theme of human rights, but this time we will be joining hundreds of other bloggers on the same theme. Obviously anyone is welcome to join, either in the synchroblog (which means having a list of links to other synchroblog posts) or to [...]

WordPress beats Blogger?

This comparison has nothing to do with usability or features of the blogging software, but rather which one is more popular with readers. Over the last six months the number of people reading my Khanya blog (on WordPress) has risen, while the number reading my Notes from Underground blog (on Blogger) has remained static, or [...]

Where do visitors to this blog come from?

It’s quite interesting to see where visitors come from:

Num
Perc.
Country Name

168
38.27%
United States

123
28.02%
South Africa

30
6.83%
United Kingdom

22
5.01%
Unknown
-

22
5.01%
Australia

14
3.19%
Mauritius

9
2.05%
Canada

6
1.37%
Germany

5
1.14%
Romania

4
0.91%
Netherlands

3
0.68%
Greece

3
0.68%
India

2
0.46%
Belgium

2
0.46%
France

2
0.46%
Italy

2
0.46%
Philippines

2
0.46%
New Zealand

2
0.46%
Singapore

2
0.46%
Indonesia

On a previous occasion there was a surprisingly high proportion of visitors from Muslim countries. This time what is surprising is the relatively high proportion from a small country like Mauritius.
What is also interesting is that this blog (Khanya) gets a much [...]

Afrigator is one year old

Afrigator is one year old today.
Afrigator is a social media aggregator and directory built especially for African digital citizens who publish and consume content on the Web.
Whatever that means.
Mike Stopforth has asked “Submit your ideas on the 1 TH1NG you’d change if you were us, and stand to win R 1000!”
This is my submission, though [...]

Why the clergy should blog

Having just spent quite a bit of time yesterday at the SAFCEI conference trying to persuade religious leaders of various kinds to get into blogging, and especially reading the SAFCEI blog, I found this post that puts the arguments so much more eloquently than I could.
Hat-tip to Stephen Murray for the link
Here are the reasons [...]

Something weird at WordPress?

Something weird seems to be going on at WordPress.
My blog statistics  for yesterday have disappeared, and comments that I’m sure were here yesterday have vanished, and the posts of the last few days are listed as if they had recently been edited. They don’t look as if they’ve been hacked, but some comments are gone.