Monday, April 11, 2005
Odds and Ends
This post covers a wide variety of topics in a more or less stream of consciousness style....
For some strange reason there is a lot of new traffic on the site searching for information on Francoise Bombardier and her painting Dansee de la Musique which was featured last summer in Bird's world art tour. Just this past week there have been eleven visitors referred by Yahoo searching for information on Francoise. The RBR is the seventh rated source for this artist. Bird of course is thrilled with the attention. The origianl story, Disco Bird, is available by clicking on the link. Most of the traffic has been Canadian in origin and has been centered around Montreal, though one visitor came from the University of Maryland, Eastern Shore. Strange.
Bird has heard nothing from his friend Aimee in Lyon, France who wrote last summer all agog over finding a flamingo on a piece of Rookwood art pottery on this site. That too was part of Bird's world art tour. Perhaps her paper did not recieve an "A".
The site still plays well internationally and is still popular in Singapore, Australia, Great Britain, Poland, Malta, Canada and the U.S. with almost daily visits from those locales. There is also a frequent visitor from Iran. Very little traffic comes from South America so apparently Bird will need to visit that area to boost his hispanic ratings. Perhaps a trip to the beach at Ipanema in Rio might be a great way to start, or a trip to visit some of his Chilean realtives.
Brad Pitt's butt is still the number one reason search engines send traffic to the site, though there are no plans to revisit Mr. Pitt's posterior. Second on that list is the Giant Plastic Jesus controversy and it is closing the gap on Brad's butt and might actually grab it soon. Obviously porn and religion attract large crowds.
The Scottish Parliament opening continues to draw visitors, as does other things Scottish on the site. The Robert Burns festivities drew strong traffic for almost a month. As noted above, the world art tour is again drawing traffic. There have been no cicada visitors in the last six months but perhaps in 30 years those visitors will be back. Likewise Bird's efforts at helping with the hurricane damage in Florida are apparently as seasonal as the traffic. That season starts again in June.
Last year's missisng Pelicans affair still draws some interest and the RBR will be revisiting that issue as soon as the birds either arrive or don't arrive at the resevoir in North Dakota later this spring.
Finally, look for some changes to the site to celebrate the first anniversary of the electronic version of the Rare Bird Review on May 1. Planning is already underway for a few surprises and once he returns fro Europe Bird will devote his full attention to the anniversary.
For some strange reason there is a lot of new traffic on the site searching for information on Francoise Bombardier and her painting Dansee de la Musique which was featured last summer in Bird's world art tour. Just this past week there have been eleven visitors referred by Yahoo searching for information on Francoise. The RBR is the seventh rated source for this artist. Bird of course is thrilled with the attention. The origianl story, Disco Bird, is available by clicking on the link. Most of the traffic has been Canadian in origin and has been centered around Montreal, though one visitor came from the University of Maryland, Eastern Shore. Strange.
Bird has heard nothing from his friend Aimee in Lyon, France who wrote last summer all agog over finding a flamingo on a piece of Rookwood art pottery on this site. That too was part of Bird's world art tour. Perhaps her paper did not recieve an "A".
The site still plays well internationally and is still popular in Singapore, Australia, Great Britain, Poland, Malta, Canada and the U.S. with almost daily visits from those locales. There is also a frequent visitor from Iran. Very little traffic comes from South America so apparently Bird will need to visit that area to boost his hispanic ratings. Perhaps a trip to the beach at Ipanema in Rio might be a great way to start, or a trip to visit some of his Chilean realtives.
Brad Pitt's butt is still the number one reason search engines send traffic to the site, though there are no plans to revisit Mr. Pitt's posterior. Second on that list is the Giant Plastic Jesus controversy and it is closing the gap on Brad's butt and might actually grab it soon. Obviously porn and religion attract large crowds.
The Scottish Parliament opening continues to draw visitors, as does other things Scottish on the site. The Robert Burns festivities drew strong traffic for almost a month. As noted above, the world art tour is again drawing traffic. There have been no cicada visitors in the last six months but perhaps in 30 years those visitors will be back. Likewise Bird's efforts at helping with the hurricane damage in Florida are apparently as seasonal as the traffic. That season starts again in June.
Last year's missisng Pelicans affair still draws some interest and the RBR will be revisiting that issue as soon as the birds either arrive or don't arrive at the resevoir in North Dakota later this spring.
Finally, look for some changes to the site to celebrate the first anniversary of the electronic version of the Rare Bird Review on May 1. Planning is already underway for a few surprises and once he returns fro Europe Bird will devote his full attention to the anniversary.
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