I was wondering about the intensive ammount of traffic drawn from this Blogspirit account, and I concluded it had to do with the filesize of each HTML document (or PHP output). I simply ran a test on the subdomain and it turned out the following details by using the Leknor tool:

https://mikeschnoor.com is
not gziped.

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If it were gziped the requested page (38910 bytes) would be the following sizes at:

Level	bytes	% of orig size	1k/sec	3.5k/sec	10k/sec	100k/sec	utime
0	38926	100.0411	38	10.9	3.8	0.4	1
1	10406	26.7438	10.2	2.9	1	0.1	0
2	10218	26.2606	10	2.9	1	0.1	1
3	10054	25.8391	9.8	2.8	1	0.1	1
4	9517	24.459	9.3	2.7	0.9	0.1	1
5	9359	24.0529	9.1	2.6	0.9	0.1	1
6	9294	23.8859	9.1	2.6	0.9	0.1	1
7	9292	23.8808	9.1	2.6	0.9	0.1	2
8	9277	23.8422	9.1	2.6	0.9	0.1	1
9	9276	23.8396	9.1	2.6	0.9	0.1	1

The 1k/sec column is the time to download the compressed version at 1024 bytes per second.

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Headers:
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Date	Sat, 02 Apr 2005 15:03:09 GMT
Server	Apache/1.3.33 (Debian GNU/Linux) AuthMySQL/4.3.9-1 PHP/4.3.10-2
Vary	Host
X-Powered-By	PHP/4.3.10-2
Set-Cookie	PHPSESSID=3d2c05aa0fc6bf43bbe882a100dfa24f; path=/
Expires	Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Cache-Control	no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma	no-cache
Content-Type	text/html; charset=utf-8
X-Cache	MISS from chili.private
X-Cache-Lookup	MISS from chili.private:80
Connection	close

While reading the Mex Blog and Der Schockwellenreiter I strumbled upon an interesting tidbit concerning „WordPress“. This open-source project is common knowledge for all blog hosters and users, especially for the users if they start their own independent blog on their private server. But what most of them don’t know is simple: Each „powered by WordPress“ found within the blogs increases the PageRank for the official WordPress website at Google and any other search engine. Here’s an excerpt from the original article at Waxy.org:

The Problem. WordPress is a very popular open-source blogging software package, with a great official website maintained by Matt Mullenweg, its founding developer. I discovered last week that since early February, he’s been quietly hosting at least 120,000 168,000 articles on their website. These articles are designed specifically to game the Google Adwords program, written by a third-party about high-cost advertising keywords like asbestos, mesothelioma, insurance, debt consolidation, diabetes, and mortgages. (Update: Google is actively removing every article from their results, but here’s a saved copy of the first page of results. You can still view about 25,000 results on Yahoo. Or try this search tool, which searches multiple Google datacenters.)

Furthermore, the author questions the idea of how to use and recieve earnings for the open-source projects / foundations. This is some quite interesting issue since „everybody“ or „the community“ is contributing their own input to the developers and registrars of these foundations to create these software programs.

The idea of Multi-User-Blogging (MUB) is absolutely useful to create a phenomenon similar to Blogspirit’s communities: Different people with usually different ideals and lives join under one banner to create content. Johnny Häuseler, the author of Spreeblick, launched his small experiment called Sprblck due to his temporary absence from the internet. His daily readers join forces at this MUB based on WordPress, and because of the open and free registration the potential of this platform reaches an interesting state. Fact is that the platform is sponsored by Johnny while anybody may contribute the content. But because of the significant idea to launch such an experiment in the Blogosphere, the questions of copyrights and any other claims concerning the content are solved within the discussions of the blog’s authors. However, the liability concerning the content usually resides on the side of the Admin-C due to German law, but the communities of the Blogosphere usually regulate themselves to invalidate any kind of misuse or abuse. I believe such kind of experiment would never be possible for any kind of newspaper or profit orientated company.

I made a larger update for the Blogroll’s RSS List. You may download my daily reading circle and be inspired by the recent additions of the full Handelsblatt’s journalists, several new blogs such as the Futureblog, Blogspirit community blogs, german Podcasters and many more. Enjoy ;)