Close Encounters (who is reading our blogs?)

I figured I oughta keep better tabs of who is reading the blog, if anybody (am I being graded?!), and have already traced two results that make me wonder about the utility of, in practice, essentially forcing someone with my, um, style of inquiry (note: recall that phrase is our secret keyphrase for "contestational style") to post something that's indexed, searchable, and available for anyone with an Internet connection to read off of the web.

Okay, so here are my two more interesting visitors, so far...

Domain Name		(Unknown)
IP Address		198.146.87.# (Tennessee Board of Regents)
ISP		Tennessee Board of Regents
Location		Continent  :  North America Country  :  United States  (Facts) State  :  Tennessee City  :  Nashville Lat/Long  :  36.1458, -86.7844 (Map)
Language		English (U.S.) en-us
Operating System		Microsoft WinXP
Browser		Internet Explorer 7.0 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648)
Javascript		version 1.3
Monitor		Resolution  :  800 x 600 Color Depth  :  32 bits

The TN Board of Regents really isn't someone I want reading through these incredibly tentative, but strongly worded critiques I'm writing here. The way these are written help me interrogate and understand what's going on in our readings, identifying what's troublesome so that I can give it more thought, but they aren't written in a style that's productive for audiences outside of our class to read. That's by design. I start here, then spend heaven's only knows how long researching, recutting, and reevaluating so that I can try and see what potentially productive readings I can extract from the readings for use in my own work.

More disconcerting is that the Regents visit came from someone referred to my blog via an email, and the email contained a link directly to my blog on Blair and Hoy. So somebody who already read the blog (no idea who) essentially vetted the information and still wanted to pass it along. Rarely a good thing when I'm in contestation mode.

(Aside: They were also reading at 800x600 resolution, which means they were either using a pretty danged old laptop, or they possibly don't have the best eyesight.)

Another interesting search was from blogsearch.google.com with a search term of "University of Phoenix". Here, I'm not so upset that they've seen what I think of online instruction as it's currently conceived, nor as it was presented in Blair and Hoy. Actually, I hope I get a few more of those. ;^)