End of the month, another quick blog update. Traffic slowed down a tad, due to a shorter month, no MacWorld, and the host server going down. Still ended with about 40K uniques.

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So this blog just passed 100,000 spam comments trapped by Akismet. That’s a milestone of sorts. Over the months dealing with spam I’ve seen its nature change from time to time in efforts to get past all the defenses in place.

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Steven Hodson over at WinExtra asks the question, what do you do to waste time? To rejuvenate and avoid the dreaded blogger burn out? Seems like these days, I’m either working, blogging, or sleeping.

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I’ve had a reader survey up for a while now, and the results have been amusing. I’ll leave it up for a while longer if you haven’t had your say, yet. But based on the results so far, I can definitely project some general trends, and am already solidifying some plans for 2008.

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Just a friendly public service announcement. David Airey’s blog, which I’m a regular reader of, was recently hacked. In this case, someone logged into his GMail account and managed to transfer his domain name. Read all the details at David’s new location.

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Here’s a fun activity for the end of the year that I hope you’ll enjoy: I’m asking you, the Webomatica readers for guidance by filling out the short survey below.

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As a year-end, holiday link sharing type thing, I thought I’d highlight some posts on other blogs that I really enjoyed over the past year, from various blogs I’ve read all throughout 2007.

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Milestones

• Started writing for the Blog Herald.
• Appear regularly on Techmeme.
• 300K Uniques
• About 1 million page views
• About 8 million hits

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This has been a bumpy month for this blog, as my posting lagged due to holiday business and I took a few days after Thanksgiving off. The blog also rendered itself inaccessable twice. I’m also off coffee and diet soda which leaves my brain foggy and numb. Still, Webomatica managed to pass 40K uniques which is the second highest amount of traffic “evar.” The most was back in February where I had a front page Digg and made it up to 44K, and I’m looking forward to breaking 44K without any Digg activity, at this rate, early next year.

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Really, I still am not sure why. I think the database is running out of control, doing something that requires intervention on the server side.

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