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July Archived
1 August 2024
We've just archived Volume 13, Number 7 of Photo Corners on the Archive page with 18 Features, 10 commented News stories, 27 Editor's Notes (which included 159 items of interest) and one site note for a total of 56 stories.
Of those, 22 stories included 113 images, we celebrated one holiday and five stories included gear specifications tables. We also marked two obituaries.
Except for news, which slipped from 16 stories last year to just 10 this year, this July looks a lot like last July.
Except for news, which slipped from 16 stories last year to just 10 this year, this July looks a lot like last July.
OUR TOP 15 STORIES this month included nine Around The Horn columns broken up by, in first place, our story about France's Arts24 Olympics coverage followed immediately by our obit of Thomas Hoepker.
Sixth place was our Fourth of July piece which tied with our matinee Jeremy Koreski on Nimmo Bay.
Four stories tied for ninth place, which is why we are looking at the top 15 instead of the usual 10. Three were Horn columns but one was the slide show on the Model 100, which is still fondly remembered by a number of readers.
READERSHIP stats showed the consequences of our changes to who we let on the site. That began last month but this month we saw served over 806,000 files compared to 573,000 last month. Unique sites stayed the same but visits increased 108 percent.
One noticeable scraper is Anthropic's ClaudeBot but Bytespider wasn't far behind. They aren't threatening our bandwidth, just inflating our stats.
Apparently they aren't well-mannered either, ignoring the robots.txt file that blocks access to the site. So there isn't anything we can do about them at the moment. Just hope they are acquired.
WE'VE UPDATED our rotating banner ads to include Sonic.net and drop a few older ones no longer active. That may seem ironic given that Sonic had trouble with its FTP service this month, delaying our usual updates half a day.
But the company was forthright about the issue as it fought against an even larger attack and we were back in business almost as soon as we filed a support request.