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January Archived
1 February 2025
We've just archived Volume 14, Number 1 of Photo Corners on the Archive page with 19 Features, 5 commented News stories, 26 Editor's Notes (which included 156 items of interest), no reviews and one site note for a total of 51 stories.
Those included 17 stories with 88 images, two stories with gear specifications, one holiday and three obituaries.
The editorial balance may look stilted but it's pretty much the way things have been the last few years. Not much news, in short.
READERSHIP numbers are still suspicious. We are getting "indexed" a lot. Last month, as we fought back against Meta's abusive trolling of the site, we built a local monitoring tool that helps us keep an eye on things.
When we notice bandwidth getting abused, we check the logs for the culprit and ban them. The monitoring tool was what was missing when we were attacked by Meta, so we feel confident we can stay ahead of the badly behaved.
Thanks again to Sonic for waving the overage fees for the month. We run lean here and that would have killed us. Were lucky to be doing business with human beings we can talk to instead of call center scripts.
Thanks again to Sonic for waving the overage fees for the month.
Visits for January were over 125K after October's 145K and November's 121K, while December (Meta) was just 72K. But December's Pages Served was 3,920K compared to October's 758K, November's 763K and January's 897K. Which illustrates the problem.
OUR TOP FOUR stories were Around The Horn columns followed by our obit for Constantine Manos.
Two more Horns followed and then our report on the Getty-Shutterstock merger interrupted three more Horns.
The Trouble With Sunsets followed in 12th place. It was trailed by Welcome to Digital Photography, Newbie!, which was originally an email to a student interested in buying a new camera.
Believe it or not, we do have a couple of products here for review. Our double vision and slowly improving brain bleeds and visits to Joyce's nursing home every day have made it difficult to sustain the kind of attention a thorough review involves. Which means they take longer. Apologies.
But we're still here and still publishing frequently unlike so many other photo sites. If you've noticed a few meager Around The Horns, that's why. Some of the sites we used to enjoy visiting regularly are now struggling to publish once a week. We see certain scribes move from one publication to another looking for sustaining work. The well is drying up.
Which is ironic in this day of such revolutionary developments both in hardware and software. As artificial intelligence begins to get demonized, it's solving old but intractable problems like removing reflections.
So we have plenty to write about. And we'll keep at it. We're happy to report our typing has improved noticeably as our brain bleed is absorbed. Now if our vision recovers, we'll be able to get even more done.
Meanwhile, thanks for accompanying this invalid on his travels through this fascinating, changing landscape.