Google maps have been ‘hacked’ (I’m using that word in the original sense, meaning a cool way to do something, instead of the media twisted sense meaning a malicious prank) in yet another cool way. You can now track from where people are visiting your blog. You don’t have to give any information out, not even your e-mail. It’s quite nice. I registered this blog a few days ago and just got my first European hit.
One interesting thing is that my brother, serving in Iraq, visits my site, and yet it does not show up as coming from Iraq. He thinks that he may be one of the East Coast sites because of the way the military routes their communications.
Anyway, another application and demonstration of the beauty of openness.
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