Rodent Regatta

I successfully upgraded this weblog to Movable Type 2.65 this afternoon. Please let me know if you see problems with comments, links, displays or anything else. Thanks.

Yesterday, I wrote about the need for improving the way I see who links to this site or visits here. I got a very nice comment back from Meg at Mandarin Design. If you haven’t visited her site and the weblog, you should.

My question was not a concern about getting linkage. Clearly, I need all the help I can get. Rather, it was yet another of my many questions about ”how all this stuff works.” It’s great to pose those questions here and get answers in comments. Now, it’s time to learn more about the answer Meg provided.

Soon, I’ve got to identify the best way to see who is visiting this site and who is linking to this site. I’ve got meters set up for traffic and they give abbreviated summaries. I’ve got a host account that provides some traffic information.

Every now and then, somebody links to this site and I see a reference to that in an RSS feed from Technorati. Other times, it goes unrecognized. This morning I noticed linkage from (I think) the Mandarin Designs site. A visit there did not tell me where or how a link from that site to mine had been set up. Perhaps, I need to better understand what Technorati is doing or can do for me.

I’ve downloaded Refer 2.1, and I’m pretty sure my host account provides everything I need to make it work. However, I don’t use MySQL for my Movable Type database. So, that’s out.

Anyhow, I want to be able to routinely answer the following two or eight questions:

• Who visited today? This week? This month? This year?
• Who linked today? This week? This month? This year?

Is that really all that hard to get?

Movable Type is the weblog software behind this weblog. It is installed on a server at Bloggerzone. This morning, there are two new entries about Movable Type at the Movable Type News web site.

First is the announcement of Movable Type 2.65.

Second is mention of MT 3.0 and MT Pro for 2004.

Somebody scanned their neckties. Thanks again to Dane for the link.