Visitors in the last 2 weeks

Published by in blogs, globalvoices on June 29th, 2006

Clustrmaps continues to provide some of the most amazing visual information I’ve ever seen on the Internet, or likely anywhere else. The following is a global graphic of visitors to this blog in just the last 14 days:

Blog visitors in the last 14 days

I’ve said this before, so please forgive me for repeating myself, but this is SO AMAZING! Is the world flat? Absolutely… at least it’s getting pretty darn close. I’m honored and humbled to be thinking, reading, listening and blogging here with you, wherever you might be at present on planet earth. :-)

Blogs are many things to many people, but for me I think they are primarily a tool for my own reflective thinking and conversations with others around the world. Blogs can be platforms and loudspeakers for advocacy, but more importantly I think they can be powerful funnels for collaboration and cooperative visioning. What do we need and want to change in our world, specifically in the area of education? That’s my primary passion here, and I’m guessing it’s a topic of interest to you as well– otherwise you wouldn’t be here and certainly wouldn’t be coming back!

We need to keep extending the conversation, inviting more people to join us here in the edublogosphere. Authentic education is conversation, and that’s exactly what’s going on here. If you haven’t commented here before, please jump right in– Your voice is valid no matter what your age, location, or position in life– and all perspectives (except robot spam, of course) are welcome here!

On this day..

9 Comments »
  • http://www.cheryloakes.com Cheryl Oakes

    That is the theme of our web 2.1 workshop for teachers, this is about the conversations. I told them I’d give them an A for the class if they would only comment on blogs. Let’s see if they take the challenge today. Hope things are well with your new job.
    Cheryl

  • http://www.wesfryer.com Wesley Fryer

    Very cool and appropriate! If you are interested in having someone iChat videoconference or Skype in at some point during your workshop let me know, Cheryl! I’d be glad to drop in and visit for awhile if there is an appropriate time and topic! :-)

  • Anonymous

    Wes, its interesting but dont you think you are self promoting just a bit much? Some of your enteries are so good, but also sometimes you just seem to be posting notes. Why dont you slow down a bit and take a few hints:

    Keep it short and simple:
    http://www.livingroom.org.au/blog/archives/blog_tip_1_get_to_the_point.php

    Write less and produce more:
    http://waldo.jaquith.org/blog/2006/06/changing-format/

    Keep up the good work, but dont feel like you have to post so much.

  • David Stone

    Wes,

    Thanks for reiteratively sharing about the ClustrMaps! I recall first hearing about ClustrMaps, del.icio.us, and many other Web 2.0 tools from you at a conference. I was hoping to use ClustrMaps to check progress of traffic coming to our school site, however the Technology “top brass” banned ClustrMaps usage on district web sites because it would “bog down” the district servers? I really have not heard much grief from anyone that this could pose a tremendous threat on servers. Hmm?

    I also appreciate you posting your notes from the latest COSN/CTO clinic, and the like. Even though I may not attend I can “feed” off of your notes.
    All of it doesn’t always apply, but there is always a nugget to pick up and learn by or use.

    I totally agree with you regarding blogs. Furthermore, they are free to read, relevant material to what I like to read, convenient, and (in this case) educational. Thank you for sharing!

    David

  • http://www.wesfryer.com Wesley Fryer

    I don’t often get anonymous comments, but I appreciate the constructive feedback. This may certainly be perceived as self-promotional– so criticism on that level may be well deserved. I really am amazed by ClustrMaps, tho. Maybe I should keep that thought to myself, and that would be the more humble thing to do- I am not sure. I am not wanting to brag or come across as having an attitude of arrogance or pride with this– I am really amazed by it and still floored. This dramatizes more powerfully for me that just about anything that the world is flat.

    On the shorter posts and less frequent posts– I have heard that suggestion from others (Will Richardson for one, whose opinion I certainly respect)– but my main response is that I am not just blogging for other people. I also blog just as much for myself, to document events, ideas, and links– so I recognize most people want to read shorter posts and are probably turned off by the longer ones. If that is the case for you, that’s fine– just skip those posts. I wish I had been able to podcast with permission during the conference, but I didn’t have a recorder with me…. even if I had, however, I would have likely also posted notes. This is just something that I do when I attend conferences now, and I have done this for some time.

    So, thanks very much for the feedback and suggestions. I don’t want to come across as self-promoting, and I’ll keep that in mind– and I do understand the importance to generally chunk information, keep it short and to the point, and go for quality rather than quantity. At a conference, however, the rules change a bit in my perception– but for better or worse I don’t end up attending too many conferences. So most of my posts that you should see will be shorter! :-)

  • http://clustrmaps.com ClustrMaps Team

    To David Stone (and thanks Wes, for the enthusastic comments about ClustrMaps):

    Please convey to the tech admin people that far from ‘bog down the district servers’, your little ‘thumbnail map’ is a mere 13K image that is designed to pass the counting/traffic/everything to *OUR* servers at ClustrMaps Headquarters – that’s the whole idea!!

    Best wishes, please feel free to contact us any time with technical enquiries, and thanks again Wes).

    -C.J. on behalf of the Clustrmaps Team

  • http://clustrmaps.com ClustrMaps Team

    p.s. David: see our March 2006 User Of The Month: St. Ives School, Haslemere, and how they are using ClustrMaps:

    “… The real benefit has been through using it as part of geography and IT lessons – it helps their global location work and gives a community focus to this, to be able to show on the map from where people have visited the school website, as well as encouraging a sense of global citizenship, that people have heard of our school from all over the world. For IT, it’s a useful way of illustrating the _world wide_ web, as well as providing some handle on the uniqueness of IP addresses. ” – Miles Berry

  • http://www.cheryloakes.com Cheryl Oakes

    Keep posting Wes, and all, these posts are my professional development. We share and have conversations. I too love ClustR maps and I use it on my blog and my students love to hear stories of people whom I know are in different places around the planet.
    Cheryl

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