Readers from afar

In his SMPS talk, Rick Klau suggested using Google Analytics to track blog readership. So I loaded the tracking code into the main page of "Writing & Design," and was interested to see a few minutes ago that I have readers in Finland, Japan, and the UK. This is the aspect of web communications that I really like. The fact that Twitter became the means by which Iranian protestors organized their activities also seemed very apt. Just a few weeks ago, I commented to a colleague that "the revolution will not be twittered." I was wrong. It turned out to be the perfect medium.