Visitor Map

One of the super neat features of Blogger is that you can add things to the side of your blog. I added a visitor map, that logs the location of my readers, and turns it into a map. You'll find the map on the lower right side of the blog, but I pasted a picture in tonight.

Each little blue dot on the map represents a visitor location. For example, there is a dot that represents everyone who has visited the blog from Green Bay. I seem to be most popular in the eastern half of the USA, but I wonder who the heck in Texas is linking to me. I think it's cool that you can see the dots moving south along the west coast of S. America and then back up again along the east coast of S. America. A friend of mine took a long motorcycle trip that followed this path, and she must have been reading the whole way!

I know most of these dots represent friends and family, but a good chunk of my blog traffic comes through the University of Denver Korbel School of International Studies website (I'm a featured writer of their Master's International Program) and through a site called Peace Corps Journals that lists all Peace Corps bloggers by country and shows the most recently updated blogs at the top of each country page.

Isn't technology creepy/amazing?