olivetalks

Olivetalks has been up for a few days short of 3 weeks. Since day one I have been following the ClustrMap’s chickenpox spread with an eagerness that in parents would result with Social Services taking away their kid in a matter of seconds. What started with a teenagers slight acne, has become a full blown rash. There are readers coming to olivetalks from all over the world to read our posts, very interested in what we have to say… are they not?

While reading many different blogs on very different stories, there was one sentence that caught my attention “[...] when I first imported the old Blogger Blogspot version of the site into the Sciencetext.com, I believe I had 2-3 RSS subscribers (me, me again, and my mother) [...]” . The initial readers, subscribers, people that comment, etc. to one’s blog are generally family members. Exactly what happened with olivetalks. The ClustrMap had a huge dot where I live, result of me refreshing the page one (thousand) time too many and one where an olive’s wonderful brother lives. As the days have gone by, the dots have multiplied, surely thanks to the tiny olives efforts?

Ok, ok, so a couple of mother olives told their families about the page, and that would explain a couple of dots more…

Yes, it’s true that a father olive emailed his friends informing them quite innocently about

this very interesting “new” way of teaching or just relaxing by venting, called blogs, like they are doing in… let’s see which one comes to mind as a good example,… oh yeah, http://olivetalks.com

And a couple of dozens of obliging friends popped their heads in olivetalks… Some even from as far away as South America!

Alright, so that explains the southern European dots… the centre European ones… the Scottish visits… the lost penguin from the very northern part of Scandinavia… fiiiiiiiiiine, it explains whole Europe and even South America. California’s visits are obviously from ClustrMaps or maybe even Google or Wordpress, I know…

But!

Look at an image of olivetalks’s ClustrMap from today (if you click on the image you can see an enlarged version, where the dots are clearer), right in the middle of the yellow circle:

Do you see that? Do you? It’s a dot from what I’m guessing is a Japanese island (2nd guess would be a boat… 3rd a shark with Internet connection…). Yes! A user from Japan checked out olivetalks!

Can I finally consider myself successful for obtaining my first reader without any nudging involved? Can I, can I? Or should I just accept the fact that I have a Japanese cousin…

All the best,

theolive