User talk:Mozasaur/Archive1
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Yes I'm different, its the difference that counts as far as i can see. My desire for this page is for edits to be top latest in reverse time order down the page, I know thats not preferred by many, but it makes sense to me, and its clearly better ergonomically. I mostly use my laptop and 800 pixels is not enough vertical space without scrolling, and I hate scrolling.
My astro websites exist to promote cool stuff in the sky, whether its day or night is completely unimportant to me; most of my value is in finding, seeing, imageing rare stuff, that other people simply cant see for one reason or another. My purpose is to create interest and give tools to share what i see, and perhaps to do what i do. My name could be Joe Blogs for all it matters, who cares. I have been exceedingly fortunate to have advice and help from an incredible set of people, both here in NZ and all over the world. I have been un-believably lucky to be in the right place at the right time, or so it seems. The truth is actually that LUCK translates to opportunity and peparedness. I put myself out there, in all kinds of extreme and uncomfortable situations, and I am prepared with the devices to find and capture the effects when they happen. I monitor a large number of information emails and web sites, so that i have some advance notion as to whether its likely or not, and then i simply take a lot more chances than most, to be available IF it does happen. That state of alert and preparedness for extreme periods is looked at as madness by some, tenacity by others, passion by a smaller number, and notable by an even smaller number. The key point is that I have delivered many almost impossible to get images to the entire planet, via many channels, and achieved my objectives. That simple joy of sharing is a very precious and valuable 'commodity' in an increasingly materialistic and superficial society, and can not be removed from my life. The important web pages and images live on, untouched by vandals, and growing in visitors daily. Here is a quick sample from 7 days ago. You can look for yourself at astro web site stats
the columns are: visitors impressions percentage for day
NEW Zealand 202 488 48.79% Australia 91 145 21.98% United States 78 152 18.84% United Kingdom 9 11 2.17% Uruguay 5 7 1.21% Canada 4 5 0.97% Japan 3 3 0.72% Malaysia 3 3 0.72% Romania 3 3 0.72% Hungary 2 2 0.48% India 2 2 0.48% Norway 1 2 0.24% Finlanda 1 1 0.24% France 1 1 0.24% Kuwait 1 1 0.24% Namibia 1 1 0.24% Netherlands 1 1 0.24% Rusia 1 1 0.24% South Africa 1 1 0.24% Spain 1 1 0.24% Taiwan 1 1 0.24% Turkey 1 1 0.24% United Arab Emirates 1 1 0.24%
its clearly not commercial, there is nothing for sale on any astro site, but it does indicate international notability, as it repeats every day, and has for 5+ years. There is meat in the sandwich. The list of referrers is especially important, but hard to get with this unpaid tracker, for more than 20. it certainly contains Universities and government from the entire planet. My sites are referenced at NASA, for instance..
moza 03:25, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
the new era begins
..began latest experiment in my self-taught self-administered web presence building degree course (yes i do have a certificate in adult training from the Australian Institute of Management, but who cares)
It is to place a J in the middle of my name in all major web sites trawled daily by the big search engines, to observe the alterations in rankings to such searches. I have never publicised the J before, so any changes are likely to be due to those edits. The other possible influence is an uprising of interest here on wiki.
I also wish to understand how how the reports of little or no web results comes about, my belief is that searching for Paul Moss will generally yield a high ranking, #1 in all my machines for 4 out of 5 years. That is checking both in NZ and Australia. Is it because the users here have closed there results to their country of residence? I have mine set to English only for most machines, but world-wide.
I also wish to understand why Google alternates between 6 or 7 million results without wiki pages, and 12 or 13 million results with wiki pages. either way i top out most of the top 10.. why are users reporting almost nil presence when i see such staggering results?
the proof of the pudding is the international domains and ip's of the visitors to my sites, there are many and varied, and I can see the promotion of astronomy via photos is working for the masses, whatever any wiki user thinks, it doesnt and cant change the facts. my server logs show clearly whats actually happening. moza 06:51, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
my web activity look we are all entitled to our opinion, its a free world and all that, we are quite priviledged to have this luxury though, and to be able to share. we all have our own personal reality, beliefs and values, I respect that.. but spam is an email thing mostly, there was very little on the web when i started out creating aurora australis stuff, and my pages brought in aurora reports as they happened, via phone and email. The text message i got back in November 2001 enabled the world to share some fantastic images, not otherwise available from the southern hemisphere. I kept the .govt and .edu etc web logs to remember the response. There is little auroral activity right now, and I'm just as interested in sky phenomena anyway.. my email list of permission granted aurora watchers and the phone list i participate in, in both NZ and Australia, make it all worthwhile. i dont, I wont, and I have never spammed emails and phone calls. What would be the point? if you upset people you cant convey any message at all. so in the end what does it matter whether that page is removed or not? its not going to make any differnece to the FACT that everything that is said there is TRUE and verifiable. if it upsets people then it can be deleted, thats fairly simple. There is more to this though, a rich mine of human behaviour that is quite facinating, and I believe accounts for the growth. My experiment continues with or without wiki, thats the wonderful thing about democracy, and paying for web space with out paid ads. nobody has ever given me any money for anything i ever did on th eweb, its just a huge experiential learning space, sharing space... NASA was quite happy to publish my many photos of astronomical phenomena, so whats all the fuss about, its a storm in a teacup because i dared to challenge the establishment, yeah the NEW establishment, wierd really, all that stuff we said would happen back in the 70's is about to smack us in the face. any way thanks for removing your emotive piece, i have done the same often, its funny how strongly we believe and feel about stuff, great really. its curious how wiki and astronomy seem to bring out the passionate ones, it seems born of fear as much as justice though, maybe there are other communities that are similiar, i will consider that more.. paul moss moza 08:28, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
- Please Help Me. can someone archive all this from here down?