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News from the backroom (?)

We bring good news and bad news. First, the bad news, as it actually matters; James’ internet connection has ceased to function. His output may therefore be sporadic for an undetirminate period.

In better news, Douglas has his first Green Party Recruiting Propaganda proper piece up on Liberal Conspiracy. Do read, if you haven’t already because you reached this site from there…

Greetings to our readers in India and Japan!

Hello to all from Chennai, Hyderabad, Bhubaneswar, Mumbai, Mahape, Iwade, Kaizuka, Osaka, Higashiosaka, Sakai, Izumisano, Naniwa & Yuasa. We hope you enjoyed the blog.

Also: hello to our lone reader in St. Helier.

June Site Statistics

June Statistics

  • Absolute unique visitors: 1010
  • Pageviews: 3580
  • Time on site: 00.04.41
  • New / returning visitors: 57.27 / 42.73

Breakdown

The most popular post this month was Doug’s comment on the economic disparity between Johnson and Livingstone voters.  We have benefited somewhat from links through from Liberal Conspiracy and Tory Troll.  We are confident such things are mutual ;)

Gone fishing?

We’ve all been at BlogNation this evening. So, unfortunately, no posts today. Sorry!

Liveblogging 42 Day Debate

We will be covering the Commons debate and vote on 42 days’ detention without charge. The vote is expected at about 6.00pm.

Comment Modding Off

In a move that will surely fill over 9,000 spam-bots with v1agra-fueled glee we have turned off comment moderation. You may now share your views with the blog and world instantly and without lull. This was done in order to encourage some of you, our largely silent readership, into hurling more comments at us. Thus far you have been pointing out our failures, so it would appreciated if you could move on to criticising our inadequacies as well.

Please do not feel obliged, we understand how little time the internet and life in general can leave the average contemporary denizen, but be aware that even the briefer comments are very much appreciated. They allow us to gauge the reactions of our readership and also prevent us from feeling as incestuous in constantly commenting upon each other in lieu of you, our readers, doing it.

An editorial e-meeting shall be staged in which we shall establish a proper comments policy but for the time being try to avoid anything illegal and it should probably be left. All spam, however, shall be treated to our Iron Fist.

May Site Statistics

May Statistics

  • Absolute unique visitors: 839
  • Pageviews: 2652
  • Time on site: 00.04.05
  • New / returning visitors: 62.99 / 37.01

Breakdown

Again, Vamp produced the most popular piece of the month - and it was mostly a lengthy pasting from the Daily Mail.  Content displayed in the recommended articles box has relatively high click-through rates, which is as we would hope.  A few visitors came through from Liberal Conspiracy.  Welcome.  Some others came via Google, searching mainly about Richard Barnbrook and the BNP.  We’re always glad to be of service.

Quote Of The Now

It would have been quicker to get my Grandmother to count the Mayoral votes.

Just her. By herself. By hand. On her own.

What do these machines fucking do? Laminate each ballot and dip it in yoghurt?

From here.

Election Night Live Blog

Local Election Liveblog

April Site Statistics

April Statistics

  • Absolute unique visitors: 1023
  • Pageviews: 3849
  • Time on site: 00.04.39
  • New / returning visitors: 62.88 / 37.12

Breakdown

This month’s most popular article was Vamp’s piece on the first televised Mayoral debate.  Traffic arrived from Iain Dale’s blog (always welcome, of course!).  This said, it was a rather good piece and deserves April’s crown.  The featured article graphics in the sidebar continue to deliver traffic at a level lower than one might expect.  Investigations and experimentations may be made soon.

As an aside, Google Analytics provides data of nearly 400 networks used to access the website in the past month.  This has thrown up some interesting results, although I will refrain from publishing them.

Tweaks

The biggest change to the website this month has been the introduction of tabs to the feature box on the homepage.  This is an imperfect system, and might be subject to further development at some stage.  The main concern is over the use of Javascript, which some readers have not enabled in their default browser.  For those who are interested, the code has been cleaned up a little, too.