One of the supporting experiments for the Big Bang theory is the isotropic cosmic microwave background radiation. It is the residual energy for our universe existing the way it does as a system. What of the internet? It is a complex system with all sorts of network effects. Does it have an isotropic background energy or activity level? With the
change over to the new software system for
South Sea Republic there is some data to explore that question.
South Sea Republic went onto the new software about a month ago. The previous software, scoop, did not record page views for each article. I could have added it in, but didn't. SSRBlog does store page views, it is how the 'most popular' article is determined at the foot of each page.
The interesting thing is that only the most recent articles have page views from regular users. The rest of the page views should be a mix of google/yahoo/ask searches, spam attempts; and bots, crawlers, spiders, etc looking at pages.
Which gives these two interesting graphs. The first is page views versus articles where the articles are in numeric and creation order.
Round about 841 is where the software change over occurred so that is the normal energy of South Sea Republic's day to day activity. Prior to that should be the background or residual energy for a website on the outer rim of the blogosphere's popularity.
There appears to be some consistent activity between about 221 and 821, but before that it drops off to one and is far less consistent.
The second graph is with the views ordered largest to smallest. Ignore the x-axis labeling, that is an artefact of how I sorted the dataset.
This graph looks logarithmic in character, definitely isn't linear. This graph also shows where the activity drops off to zero which suggests if there is residual activity it is in a timeframe and doesn't include older (greater than two years) content.
Does the internet have a background activity or energy? Undoubtedly IMO. Not sure these graphs really prove it though. We would expect a base 'activity' or energy, but the graph line is more logarithmic than hitting a flat base point which is greater than zero. Maybe too much noise, or maybe just too small a sample, or maybe SSR is too far flung on the outer galaxy's rural arm.
It may mean that the (uniform) background energy only reaches back as much as one or two years, and isn't isotropic.
Phoenix Eats Out is the restaurant review site for
Phoenix,
Scottsdale and
Old Town Scottsdale which lists the modernist and contemporary restaurants, taverns and bars in the greater Phoenix area.
This is the list of the most popular restaurants pages from phoenixeatsout.com that have been viewed the most;
My personal favourite restaurants in Phoenix are
AZ88,
Postinos,
Bomberos with
Grazie,
Humble Pie,
Orange Table,
The Vig,
Fez and others coming close behind. View the complete list with the photo-journalistic style images on
phoenixeatsout.com
Arizona is an outdoor state and has lots of hiking in the city and around the state. Phoenix is unusual for most cities in having several large mountains in the center of the city with great hiking. Anyone who comes to Phoenix has to do the
Echo Canyon trail on Camelback and the
Summit Hike on Squaw Peak or Piesta Peak. The views of the city, suburbs and surrounding mountains are wonderful from Camelback and Piesta Peak.
For more experienced hikers there is the McDowell Mountains in North Scottsdale that has several difficult and strenuous hikes in
Tom's Thumb and
Bell Pass. Alternatively, you can hike the highest mountain in Arizona. At 12,600 feet
Humphrey's Peak is a long and difficult hike.
Between 2004 and 2009 this site,
southsearepublic.org, was a constitutional blog based on scoop which focused on Australian and global constitutional issues.
One of the strongest aspects of it was the development of constitutions by those involved in the blog. These constitutions are the outcome:
The constitutions were built using principles from Montesquieu's separation of powers, the enlightnment's universal political rights and the ancient Athenian technology of sortition and choice by lot.
South Sea Republic started in 2004 as an Australian constitutional blog in 2004 based on scoop software. It was an immigrative outgrowth of Kuro5hin. The archives for each year since then;
The articles are ordered by views.
I am an Australian living in the United States as a permanent resident.
I am a software developer by trade and mostly work in Java and jump between middleware and front end.
I originally worked in the New York area of the United States in telecommunications before moving to Washington DC and
working in a mix of telecommunications, energy and ITS. I started my own software company before heading out to
Arizona and working with Shutterfly. Since then I have joined a startup in the Phoenix area and am thoroughly enjoying myself.
I do a lot of photography which I post on this website, but also on flickr. I have a photo-journalistic website which lists
the modernist and contemporary restaurants in phoenix. I have a site on the
Australian Flying Corps [AFC] which has been around since the 1990s and which I unfortunately
lost the .org URL to during a life event; however, it is under the
www.australianflyingcorps.com URL now.
The AFC website has gone through several iterations since the 90s and the two most recent are
Australian Flying Corps Archives(2004-2002) and
Australian Flying Corps Archives(2002-1999) which are good places to start.
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