MyBlogLog

Way down in the left column, you may have noticed a tan box with tiny images and names. These are people who have visited here through the MyBlogLog website. More useful is Writer's Edge: Reports - MyBlogLog Communities where you can find people who have joined and how to do so, yesterday's top links here (how do they do that?), and a message board with nothing but an old note from me expressing surprise that some peeps had already joined when I first found the page. Actually, I'd set up an account back in May, part of a continuing exploration of Web 2.0, seeing how writers can use such facilities to their benefits.

When I login to my account, which is very easy to use, I can edit the information presented about Writer's Edge and moi, pick up the magic mumblings (code) that connects there with here, but best of all, rummage through statistics that the service collects about this blog and presents in a nicely readable and understandable fashion. What kind of stats? Oh, ones like where people came from, what they clicked on, even which pages they looked at. These data are all buried on my server, but MyBlogLog presents them in one click and prettily at that. I like it. It's a Martha Stewart Good Thing.