Watching the world with... Jan. 31, 2007

I love looking on a full moon or a half moon or a starlit night and thinking that people thousands of miles away, or even in the next village, could be gazing on much the same view. And that’s what I like about the world wide web. Take my own site. When I look at Google Analytics (although you can get pretty much up your own arse believing the statistics) I wonder at the person or people crowded around a computer looking at my site in Reykjavik Iceland. Or in Stellenbosch Cape Town South Africa (actually I think I know who that is). In June I intend to be in Iceland and who knows ‘the person who looked at my site’ might pass me in the street or share with me a hot volcanic pool, they not knowing it is me and it was my work they marvelled at and me not knowing them as the magic dot on the screen over Iceland.

Perhaps in actual fact they just bumped across my site on the way to somewhere else. Still, I will be looking at those Analytics tomorrow and the day after or even somedays every hour to see which cities and towns are lighting up with a dot. Or sometimes a big dot (several people hitting on me).