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October Archived
1 November 2024
We've just archived Volume 13, Number 10 of Photo Corners on the Archive page with 13 Features, 6 commented News stories, 28 Editor's Notes (which included 162 items of interest) and two site notes for a total of 50 stories.
We published 78 images in 15 of those stories, included gear specifications in three, celebrated one holiday and ran one obituary.
No, there wasn't much news in October.
OUR READERSHIP NUMBERS for October were down from September, although we still averaged almost 20,000 unique sites per day, serving over 716,000 pages for the month.
We take this as a variation in the AI bots crawling the site. Claudebot, Bytespider, Petalbot, Barkrowler, to name names.
OUR TOP STORIES included three Horns broken up by our Bus Stop Sunset and trailed by a Penasonic announcement. Our next five was led by Yucca, our Friday Slide Show: The Old Embosser, two Horns and Another Approach to shooting with the iPhone's 5x lens.
OUR VISUAL PROBLEMS from the concussion have continued and the site hasn't been safe from them. Mainly the issue is not being able to type accurately, although being a touch typist we would expect better.
This has led to some ridiculous copy and paste operations. At one point, we were simply unable to reliably enter
⌘ v to paste what we'd just copied, And we have to do that a lot.Fortunately, Keyboard Maestro came to the rescue letting us define a more reliable key combination to paste.
We've also relied more on dictation. It does well until we get to the end of a paragraph where formatting eludes it.
We even tried Apple's Writing Tools on our iPhone to see if it's "proofreading" option helped. Sadly no. It foists its own biases on our publication style.
Somehow, though, we still expect to see our way through this disability and return to our normal, reliable self.