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June Archived
1 July 2024
We've just archived Volume 13, Number 6 of Photo Corners on the Archive page with 12 Features, 16 commented News stories, 25 Editor's Notes (which included 153 items of interest), no reviews and two site notes for a total of 55 stories.
AS A RESULT of changes to our robots.txt file, which blocks some bots from access to the site, we've seen a very large increase in every category of activity from unique sites to hits.
To take just one (important) example, unique hits increased 143 percent. Visits, to add another, jumped 191 percent.
It is surprising how many fewer obits we've published this year.
We assume this is indexing activity but we aren't seeing any results from Google on simple searches. Google was responsible for 5.22 percent of the site's activity last month after our changes permitted its bot to index our text. That's pretty minor.
WE'VE OFTEN POINTED OUT that stories published early in the month tally more readers than more recently published stories. But this month was a little ridiculous with our archive story (like the one you're reading now) taking third place.
Joost Vandebrug's Pillow Book just barely beat it out and they were both beaten out by the June 1 Around The Horn. Another Horn took fourth and the top five was rounded out by our obit of Ron Edmonds.
It is surprising how many fewer obits we've published this year. There have typically been a couple of month but we're now going months without one. A generational shift, perhaps.
WE CONFESS to being overwhelmed by duties as executor of Mom's estate and sole trustee of her trust, which has consumed over 1,500 hours of our time this year so far. That explains the absence of reviews of any length, including books (which, after all, must be read). We just haven't had the time to devote to it.
But we'll get back to that, bit by bit, as we get through the more demanding tasks, like emptying the family home.
MEANWHILE, we'll keep pressing the shutter button on the world that passes before our eyes. There's always time for a 1/125 second break.