Month: December 2004

T-Mobile AirCard

Glenn seems very happy with his new wireless data card. This isn’t a WiFi card, but rather, works on the cellular network and therefore has access anywhere there is appropriate cell site coverage.
I’ve looked at the Verizon card, but at $80/month for unlimited access, it was a little pricey for me to justify given my limited needs.
So, I found a more affordable solution: for $30/month, you can use a T-Mobile AirCard for unlimited access. The drawback is that unlike Verizon’s coverage, T-Mobile is currently strictly dialup speeds — about 56kbps.
That’s not great for high powered web surfing, but I’ve found it is still extremely handy to be able to grab e-mail, be on instant messaging, and blog from anywhere.

TTLB EcoTeam Update

Please give a belated welcome to Douglas at Seeking Understanding, who joined several days back but I somehow managed to miss. Welcome aboard, Douglas!

Carnivorous Conservative on SiteMeter

Carnivorous Conservative has interesting analysis of SiteMeter statistics:
Who is read “more”, for example, Andrew Sullivan, Powerline, Protein Wisdom or Ace of Spades? Depending on how you want to interpret the numbers – and with the caveat that I’m no internet know it all – $20 says you probably guessed wrong. What if I told you that at least in one measure the numbers actually prove that both PW and ACE individually beat Powerline and Sullivan COMBINED!!
I think his methodology is sound, as is his logic. The only question, as always, is just how accurate SiteMeter’s data actually is…
Update: The Commissar points out one potential issue with the analysis: the large number of “zero-second” visits. I am fairly sure that zero-second visits represent visits where the user simply hit one page — since there is only one timestamp, there is no way to calculate how long they were viewing the blog overall.
Also, another interpretation for Carnivorous’ finding that Protein Wisdom receives more blog reader-time than Powerline: maybe Protein Wisdom fans just read really, really slow…

TTLB EcoTeam Marches On

Please welcome the latest addition to the TTLB EcoTeam:
In addition, I’m also especially pleased to welcome N. Todd of the Liberal Coalition on board the TTLB EcoTeam in the Friends of Iraq Blogger Challenge. N.Todd is reaching across the partisan divide to support SoA’s effort despite severe misgivings about Bush’s policies and the Iraq war — an example I sincerely hope many others on the left will follow.
Today is the first official day of fundraising in the challenge, so if you haven’t donated already, I humbly ask that you reach into your heart, and then into your wallet, and click here to support SoA’s fine efforts to help the Iraqi and Afghan people. Thanks!
For more on TTLB’s participation in the Friends of Iraq challenge, see here.