I set a few goals for the next month. One of them is to double the number of visits to our TaskBerry site. I’m not telling the figures, but I’ll post about it in a month. Google analytics distinguishes three sources of visits,

• direct - you enter the url into the browser
• search - you’re looking for something, and you click on my site in the search results

• referral - you’re browsing another site, then click on a link to my site

Each of them requires a different approach. To increase direct visits, I’ll need to tell my friend about the goodies they’ll find on my site. To get more visits from search results, I’ll have to provide great content. To have more links to TaskBerry…, I don’t know. It probably takes great content and letting people know about it. There must be two thresholds on the internet

• to click or not to click
• to link or not to link

And you have to be clicked first in order to be linked to.

I just finished my first version of an xslt transformation to convert OPML to TreeSheets xml (click on this link and save the file).

When I practised Aikido, my master told us, Let your opponent hit where he wants to, then let him fall where he wants to. I would apply the same Aikido strategy with spammers. They send out tons of mails in the hope that one out of a thousand will click on a link. Let’s make them happy, let everyone click on the links. Plugins could be added to mail clients that processes each spam and clicks every single link in it. Spammers would get many times more clicks, they would need a larger infrastructure to cope with it, and a click wouldn’t mean an intention to buy anymore.

My old site used a wiki/CMS created with newLISP.  My experience with it was that it worked just the way my brain works, it felt so simple and natural. It also has a great and responsive community.

Then I changed host and it was difficult to port my old site, due to the absence of ssh/scp access.

Thank you, Lutz and you folks, I enjoyed the time spent with you.  Keep up the good work!  I might return one day.