Around the world….
in the stroke of a key…a computer key!
Taking a brief break from photos….I’ve been wanting to blog about all the wonderful places the visitors to this blog come from. As the daughter of a US diplomat, who was in the Foreign (diplomatic) service too, and married a Foreign Service officer, clearly I love travel and learning about the wonderful places in the world, and the people there. A while back, succumbing to curiosity, I signed up for a free “site meter” (that little rainbow colored cube at the very, very bottom of the blog page). This site meter does *not* tell me your e-mail address, but it does (in most cases) identify where you are from…I LOVE that! So does my 8 year old…he’ll ask, Mommy, where are people from today? So we’ll go to my blog meter and see.
So far, in the couple of months I’ve had the site meter, I’ve had folks from 47 of the 50 US States (I’m missing Delaware, North Dakota and Nebraska), Washington DC, eleven provinces in Canada (missing The Yukon Territory and Nunavut), six states in Australia (missing South Australia and the Northern Territory), and 43 (!!!!) countries. And, thrill of thrill, most of those appear to be repeat visitors (the same town in the UK showing up again and again, for example). Since I’m only on the Artful Quilters blog ring, I’m guessing most come from there…how cool! Here’s my list to date:
USA………. Turkey ……….. Denmark
Canada….. Norway …………Sweden
Australia ..Germany ………Israel
Korea…….. Brazil ……………The Netherlands
Spain……… Mexico………… England
Scotland…. New Zealand …Hungary
Oman…….. Italy……………… Belgium
Taiwan…… Switzerland …..France
Singapore.. Austria………… San Salvador
Poland……. Chile……………. Indonesia
Finland…… Iceland …………Ireland
Thailand…. Egypt …………..Kuwait
Slovakia….. South Africa… Kazakhstan (!)
Malaysia…. Lybia ……………India
I totally promise *not*, EVER, to break into the chorus of “It’s a small world after all,” but I love how we come together by a shared passion for art in cloth. Even more wonderful, I found a “Where Are You From” mini-map on Caity’s blog, and promptly signed up. So now, we’ll have a visual in the sidebar area to the right of this post (and since we’re all visually oriented as quilt artists!!!!!) to enjoy and you can share in spotting new dots on the map. Can’t wait to see the dots grow!
May 18th, 2006 at 11:04 am
I agree! One of the things I love about the AQ ring is how varied all of us are geographically. I love hearing about what everyone’s up to from all over the world!
May 18th, 2006 at 3:44 pm
very cool sarah! the visual thing appeals to me for sure!