Those of you who have visited before will notice that I’ve redirected cybersoc.com to this blog today. That’s because, although the blog is still getting fewer visits than the static website, I feel very strongly that this blog is the way forward.
So where is the old Cybersoc and Cybersociology content? It’s to the left – click the links to the left and you’ll find what you’re looking for.
Tonight I’ve been looking at the log files for Cybersoc and Cybersociology. Cybersoc has been going since autumn 1995, making it nearly 10 years old! I wasn’t able to get statistical information until about a year after the launch, a period which saw Cybersoc win Yahoo’s “Cool Site of the Day” award which led to my service provider temporarily pulling my site when it was hit for 20mb worth of downloads each day for a week (the page was about 100k so that’s a tonne of downloads). Anyway, since I installed the counter, cybersoc.com has had well over 400,000 user sessions. Cybersociology.com, the home of cybersociology magazine, has had over 350,000 sessions. That’s a total of 750,000 user sessions on the index and “issue” pages of both sites which, I reckon, is probably less than half of the total sessions – many people will have linked directly to pages of content, visited before the statistical info was available, etc. There’s also the cybersociology email list which now has over 1500 members!
750,000 sessions that I’m sure of and another 750,000 sessions that I estimate slipped through the cracks… wow. Whoever was the millionth or 1.5 millionth visitor, I’m sure that if you send me your address I can arrange for my friends at the Europeon Lottery, or that guy who keeps emailing me from Ghana/Nigeria/etc to tell me about the sad death of his dictator/oil baron father, to somehow reward you. (Probably with little blue pills which, apparently, have moved on several generations from the original version.) ;-)
I honestly can’t believe it and feel humbled that so many people have, and continue to, look at this website. Without the internet my life, not to mention the distribution of my work, would be less in many ways.
Thank you so much for the emails you’ve sent telling me how, and where, you’ve used my work. Please do continue to let me know! Also, thank you also to the students and researchers who, each day, send me questions or comments (usually pointing out inaccuracies, but nevermind). It means a lot to me and I sincerely appreciate your taking the time to contact me.
Please do get in touch – send me an email, post a comment or make a call for papers on the cybersociology list. Kind Regards and a Warm Welcome to all – thanks for visiting.
:-)
Robin.