Foreign Perspectives

It’s been ages since I looked at the detailed stats for this blog so it was something of a surprise that one place reckoned that 75% of the readership is in America.

I say one place because one place reckoned that as low as 25% were from there and that 16% were from India.

Of course, that’s the problem with web site statistics: none of them are really accurate. Bear in mind too that all of those that I looked at have a little stats marker on the site so they should all be in agreement!

To be fair, they’re not all measuring over exactly the same timescale but a few days out isn’t going to make a difference from 75% American readership to 25%. Some statistical errors are evident though so for example the American readership that Alexa guesses at 25% is higher than the British readership that they guess at 20% simply because their toolbar is more popular in the US (all the sensible stats places reckon that both countries are about equal).

However, it does seem clear that we’re getting more American readers than we used to and therefore I’m thinking that it’s time that Foreign Perspectives emmigrated to America itself so over the next week or two I’ll be moving the hosting for it.

Popularity: 8% [?]

Look of the Year is basically a Miss World (or Mr Universe) for the online world.

However, there are a couple of important differences with this beauty contest… anyone who want to join can and rather than have some voting panel behind closed doors, your success is determined by people voting directly for you.

One indirect bonus of their approach is that you’re not necessarily thrown to the one side if you don’t win and might pick up a modelling contract if you’ve got the look that’s being sought by a model agency.
Winning categories are women/men  14-19 and women/men 19+ with a top 10 list coming out each month and the four overall winners being published on the 31st of December.

What are you waiting for? If you’re yound and beautiful, head on over to http://www.lookoftheyear.com for more information and to sign up.

Popularity: 6% [?]

If you’re like most people I’m sure you’ve hardly gotten beyond thinking that you’ll either get a few hundred from the travel agent or perhaps just use a card when you get there.

In the first case, you’ll end up spending a small fortune un-necessarily and in the second you could be stuck without any money. In both cases, it’s worth putting a little thought into it and to help you make the best choices I’m putting together a little series on it over the next week or so.

Popularity: 7% [?]