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Chan Productions Joins Internet Blackout Against SOPA/PIPA

nospam@example.com (CHaN) — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:58:12 -0800

Yesterday, Chan Productions participated in the internet blackout in an effort to protest the SOPA/PIPA bill which is being debated in the U.S. Government. Other large websites such as Wikipedia, BoingBoing, Reddit, etc. blacked out their websites in protest. This is what our website looked like yesterday:

For accessibility, this is the blackout message I had on the site:

american politicians have introduced SOPA/PIPA legislation
which could damage the free and open internet
the success of chanproductions was only possible in a world with a free and open internet
for 24 hours we are blacking out the site in solidarity
and in defence of the internet

learn more

fight the future

The dust has settled from the online protest, and Digital Trends has compiled statistics about the blackout:

75,000: Approximate of websites that participated in the blackout, according to SOPAStrike.com, which helped organize the protest.

162 million: Number of people who saw the Wikipedia blackout page

4.5 million: Number of people who signed Googles anti-SOPA petition on Wednesday

1.458 million: Number of people who signed other similar anti-SOPA/PIPA petitions, according to activist websites Avaaz.org and Fight for the Future (FFTF)

35,000: Approximate number of people who sent letters to their senators and representatives as a result of the blackout

25: Number of senators who publicly opposed PIPA after the blackout went into effect

We'll see if this was enough to kill the bills. Learn more about SOPA/PIPA.

Top 10 Search Terms For Chan Productions

nospam@example.com (CHaN) — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:24:30 -0700

I was recently looking at my site's visitor data. I was interested to see if the addition of my delicious bookmarks on the left rail under "What I'm Reading", was helping with traffic. Looks like you folks like the feature, and traffic is up due to it.

In either case, I found some interesting data about search engine traffic. These are the top query terms that people search who end up on my site:

Roast Pork Tenderloin - This is my signature dish that I cook
Coast Capital - This is due to the epic rant I have against this credit union.
J2EE Sucks - I really don't enjoy coding in J2EE.
Chan Can Cook - Has to do with my cooking?
Church Mortgage Burning Ceremony - I've got an article about this.
Sen Zushi - My favourite restaurant.
Chan Productions - This site.
Jeremy Postale - This guy was doing a vanity search on himself, and found his name on my site.
Nanoose Bay Camp - A beautiful camp that my church is involved in.
Mighty Fish Taco - I like fish tacos?

Anyways, interesting query mix. Four of the top queries are related to food, so I guess that makes this a Foodie blog for 40% of the time.

Delicious

nospam@example.com (CHaN) — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 11:49:29 -0700

My blog entries as of late has been sporadic at best. In an effort to at least keep the site up with fresh content, I've recently started using Delicious which is a social bookmarking service. On the left hand side of the website, I've added a "What I'm Reading" section which updates every 3 hours. Typically I blog about interesting articles that I come across anyways, so I think this is a nice addition to the site.

If you want to subscribe to my Delicious feed, you can use check out it out here (RSS / http://www.delicious.com/the_chan).

Hopefully this will make your visit here a bit more valuable even if I don't have blog posts, at least you'll have fresh bookmarks. I also wanted to try to keep track of how many articles I read a day as a metric.