Congress is reading our Neilochka! Woo-hoo!

By Jim on 08.08.05 11:46 pm

Maybe normal people work there and read “extra-curricular” material…?

By Anne on 08.09.05 1:15 am

I know, that zero second thing really throws me, too.

Are you getting lots of Playstation Comment spams?

By Lis on 08.09.05 1:51 am

LOL Yeah I never understand the O minutes viewing! It;s all so scientific!

By mrsmogul on 08.09.05 4:13 am

Hit counters don’t know when you finish looking at a page so the way they measure your viewing time is when you go from one page to the next on the same site. Since blogs are typically one page for all current info, people read that page and then flit off to somewhere else and the hit counter doesn’t know they’re gone so there’s nothing to measure. Ergo 0 seconds.

But Congrats, Neil, you’ve got the government’s interest. Hmm, maybe congrats isn’t the right word.

Duck and cover, Neil

By JJ MacMillan on 08.09.05 4:56 am

It’s probably just an intern (or a famous congressperson) who likes to learn about stuff from Neil. If I were to work for the government, I read Neil’s writing too.

Or, the government is trying to do research on how to fix things.

By M.A. on 08.09.05 5:04 am

I think it’s kind of freaky in general how much you can track the traffic to sites! How’d you DO that, anyway???!!

By modigli on 08.09.05 5:15 am

I find it creepy to Modigli and those 0 second ones are funny, a little sad, and confusing. I don’t think you can visit a site for 0 seconds can you? Maybe metaphysically, in spirit.

Maybe they’re gonna investigate J-Lo’s talking boobs. Seem like a national security threat to me.

By a.m. griff on 08.09.05 5:26 am

I get a lot of those ‘0′ people as well as the assorted playstation blog spam comments too.

By Jack on 08.09.05 5:42 am

That could well be a reader who found you from my site. Congress is out of session in August so the whole staff has a lot of time on their hands, not just the interns. (I’m sure you know that I work for the government too–thanks for not outing me as a day-time blog reader!)

By jamy on 08.09.05 5:55 am

I use the same counter and JJ M is right. They may be on your main page forever, but if they navigate to another website it doesn’t register when they leave.

Those crazy representatives! They’re just as bored at work as I am!

By ashbloem on 08.09.05 6:08 am

They’re just here to pick up girls.

By psychotoddler on 08.09.05 9:04 am

Huh. I’ve found them on my blog, too.

>insert theme from The Twilight Zone here

By introspectre on 08.09.05 3:20 pm

Dude, Neil — you and I are on the SAME PAGE, buddy.

Just a few days ago I put up a piece about this same crazy ass thing! http://www.pauldavidson.net/2005/08/06/my-words-their-filibuster/

They’re out to get us all!

By Pauly D on 08.09.05 3:44 pm

You know, it could be worse; I regularly get somebody from the French Ministry of Finance looking for the “ass parade.” The French taxpayer’s tax Euroes at work.

By akaky on 08.10.05 7:06 am

Aha! I just had a visitor from the UK Parliament.

By Rachel on 08.10.05 7:13 am

Man, and all I get are lousy hits from nyc.gov

I wonder why each tracking site I use (I actually have three linked up: blogpatrol, sitemeter, and statcounter) gives me different (sometimes VASTLY so) hit counts.

By Fun Joel on 08.10.05 8:45 am

LOL I’ve always wondered that myself.

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