The Blog from City Hall

Does anybody read this blog? I ask myself that question sometimes. The answer, of course, is yes. Some people read this blog. The graphic to the left is produced by Google Analytics. It gives me insight on what the traffic is to my blog, where it’s coming from geographically, and what source it’s using to find the blog in the first place. It’s useful to have a better understanding of these factors so that I can continue to produce a blog that’s readable and responsive to the people that take time to look at it. If it’s not readable and responsive, people won’t read it and then I’m just wasting my time.

You can click on the imagine to see it full size. In the lower right-hand graphic there is a source called “prairie pages”. Prairie Pages is what we call our internal intranet. Unless you work for the city of Eden Prairie, you don’t know what this is.

Take a look. Email me your feedback.

Something happened (the e-dog chewed it up?) to last Friday’s blog entry titled Podcast #8: A tour of three suburban downtowns, as only a few photos were included.

They’re all there now. Apologies for my goof.

I’ve installed a triple dose of comment spam protection. It’s a defensive strategy designed to prevent the automated spammer scripts, not the one-comment-at-a-time spammers. We’ll soon see, as Scott plans a blog entry in the near future in which he'll turn on comments.

In the meantime, feel free to experiment by posting a comment on this blog entry.

I’ve installed the blogging platform WordPress here for Scott’s weblog and imported all his previous entries from the past three years.

Let me know if you discover any glitches.

Note that he has a new RSS feed.

I’ll gradually be changing the theme, colors, and sidebars over the next few days. And hopefully this will resolve the infamous clicking problem. Maybe.