Danish Doll has DOORS UP!

KencMcG has DOORS UP!

Heidicindi has a DOOR UP!

SarahsD has DOORS UP!

If I missed your doors while I was gone please let me know and I’ll link them today!

 Ally McNally has DOORS UP and MORE! Go check out her knockers!

Am I back? Not really… not yet… Maybe tomorrow?

The Green Panther has a DOOR up!  

Jill Carmel has DOORS UP!

SEEDSOWER has DOORS UP!

Neeka has DOORS UP!

Ntebrd has a DOOR UP!

I am being “mined for business intelligence” !

My illusions are all shattered!

The Xanga Team came out with a fun (or is it?) new feature today!

If you look at your foot prints page you will see it. On the left side, what used to be only a xanga name or a destination, is now labeled!

Occasionally I see a blog from someone excited about their foot prints.

“Someone from Cote D’Ivoire is looking at me!They stopped by twenty times!” or “Oh no… the District of Columbia is recording everything I do!”

Yes, there is a touch of conspiracy theorist in all of us.

I would patiently explain to them what most of us who have been around awhile know… that they are web crawlers searching for information and not to be concerned, simple computer programs.

I get prints from all over the world. One inparticular from Belgium, fascinated me. Because of its timing, random and always an individual track, not fifteen or twenty of them at once, what I would expect a web crawler to do. I thought for sure this was someone who maybe liked my blog and would check up on me when it was convenient for them… I do this with a few blogs that I enjoy  (they use other blog services that shall remain unnamed)   Curtis McGuire, Loonachic, Suzi Blu, just to link a few.

Anyway I would see Belgium and think… Hey! Someone there must like me… they are coming to see MY stuff!

But now… *sigh* I find that it is just another computer… like all of the others…

I am being ”mined for business intelligance”  

My romantic notion of some person on the other side of the world being entertained by my quirky stories or random photos is shattered. Ah well… I will survive and adapt.

It is time to get excited about the fact that… I AM BEING MINED FOR BUISNESS INTELLIGENCE!

What do you think about the footprint feature?

Do you like knowing if it is a person or a bot looking at your page?

Does it make a difference to you?