It's blog-date...

My first weekend to myself for a month, so I’m getting some work done… of a sort. I’ve finished my web server log analysis script to see who’s been looking at my blog, and who referred them to me (473 different computers accessed my blog during May).

Poking through the stats led me to BlogMatcher, which lets you find blogs that are “like yours”. From the FAQ, “The basic premise of BlogMatcher is that two blogs that link to the same sites share some sort of topical commonality. If you link to an article in your blog, then the chances are, you’ll be interested in reading other people’s opinions about the same article.”

Now, I’m not sure I totally agree with that, maybe because I’d like to think that I don’t surround myself with “blog yes-men”, or maybe I don’t think my blog is extensive enough to give useful results, or I don’t link enough. Still, it’s quite a useful tool for finding new blogs to poke around looking for stuff.