Hello world! AND HELLO, EVERYONE, I’M NEW HERE – JUST TRYING OUT SOMETHING NEW!

Call me crazy, if you like, but I won’t delete the following – forgive me if you think it’s wacky a bit:

[Welcome to WordPress.com. This is your first post. Edit or delete it and start blogging!]

This is my very first post – hope you like it and will leave a comment or two so that I’ll visit you too later on!

[Hoping this won’t come back and haunt me later, for whatever reason at all.

Just had an idea about finding out where all my visitors come from and how many per day; and, in the process, make life a little bit easier for me and my very inquiring mind.

Don’t worry yourselves unduly though; you’ll still be anonymous! You’ll only be a number and a dot or two on a miniature digital world map.

Unless, of course you want to leave a comment, invite me to lunch…

; > D

So, here goes something potentially useful to everyone, hopefully:

VISITOR COUNT AND LOCATIONS: and then, I put in my HTML code for ‘clustrmap’ [right in here].

Nothing happened for a long time, even though the map did in fact show up briefly, before website Admin on my other blog community stepped in to literally wish it away!]

That was then, and this is now – Cyclera is now on planet WordPress!

I understand that I can do all kinds of nifty/neat things here while blogging – great stats, importing/exporting a whole blog with its posts/comments, adding computer code from paid review sites using the Presentation Theme Editor, adding pictures and videos from several sources….

I REALLY NEED TO BLEND IN FAST, SO THAT I CAN GET TO KNOW EVERYONE ASAP!

WOULD YOU GIVE ME SOME TIPS/INSIGHTS/TRICKS FROM YOUR EXPERIENCE SO FAR?

WHAT HAS BEEN YOUR EXPERIENCE HERE?

DO YOU MAKE ENOUGH MONEY TO COVER YOUR BLOGGING COSTS?

Does GOOGLE ADSENSE Monetize YOUR BLOG?

HAVE YOU SEEN ANY OF THESE LINKS ABOUT THE TRENDS IN BLOGGING:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6178611.stm Blogging ’set to peak next year’

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6129496.stm Blogosphere sees healthy growth

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6083632.stm Blogs – the new diplomacy?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5283248.stm Quick guide: Blogs and blogging

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6687673.stm Third of bloggers ‘risk the sack’