I am not sure if it is coincidence but since the start of Bulan Ramadan, internet traffic to my friend’s ultra high website has taken a dip. I am linking it to Muslims spending less time on the internet than they normally would but I am uncertain if my deduction is accurate.

I asked my friend to keep an eye on his traffic stats to see if there is a surge in traffic in the week hours of the morning after the Muslims have broken fast but he has yet to note a significant change.

One thing to note is that my friend’s site is local and most of his traffic is from within the country and the majority of the people here are Muslims and celebrating Ramadan.

Let’s see if his traffic will pick up after Hari Raya.

As you know, I surf the internet a lot; too much for my own good actually, but I have a curious mind and I hop from one site to another reading and getting information on anything and everything. You should see my list of bookmarks. It is so long because I find so many sites that are interesting enough to want a second visit or not.

One of the sites that I got to know of recently, is at http://askjoeabout.com. If you ask me, I swear this is a blog what with its Word Press theme, but apparently, it is not because Ask Joe About has a separate sub-domain that leads to a blog but there is no blog content there except for a link out to an online shoe store. It is also the same case for the link to Friends and Terms. The only tabs that work are Home and Contact. I would like to Ask Joe About this.

I don’t know who Joe is because there is no “About” page but apparently, Joe welcomes questions from us and he is said to know EVERYTHING. I am not sure what field he specializes in and how accurate his answers to our questions will be. Joe’s “blog” does not have a specific theme judging from the long list of categories.

This blog was established in May, 2007 but there are only three months’ worth of content and the odd thing that I noticed is that Joe writes and publishes numerous articles ON THE SAME DAY which, although I do not think is impossible because I write more than thirty posts every day, reading through the posts for this review, I have a feeling that all the articles were copied from somewhere else. I know that there are sites that offer free blog content and this looks like one of the users. I should probably fire up Google or CopyScape to check for duplicate content but I’ll not go to such lengths. And if these were really written by Joe then I apologize for jumping to the wrong conclusion.

However, the impression that I got from Ask Joe About is that he is only interested in selling shoes. Now, after reading my review, Joe would probably give me a low rating. Well, I will just stick to giving an honest review.

While checking my traffic stats tracker, I came across someone coming from a site called Blog Dino. That got me curious, especially anything that has the name DINO to it since that is the name of one of my beloved dogs.

So off I went to check this out and it actually is a search engine for blogs and news sites. This is certainly different from my default search engine Google because there is a tag cloud below the search bar.

In my opinion, people who have lots of free time on their hands and without a specific site to read and just surfing aimlessly on the internet can find this really useful.

As an example, as you can see on the screenshot, SEX is one of the keywords. If you do not know yet, the larger the size of the font, the more times it has been mentioned,. As an experiment, I clicked on SEX and I was brought to a search page with relevant results from blog posts and news sites. However, on this page, there is also another larger tag cloud, with all sorts of keywords that are linked to the word SEX. So I clicked on PORN and the same thing goes on with a large tag cloud with keywords linking to PORN.

I did not actually have time to read how accurate the search results are rendered but it is like a game to jump from an article to another related one. Too bad I do not have time to explore more.