What affects us affects cats
It may be useful for people to understand how I choose the content for articles on PoC. This short post explains things. My options for deciding the subject matter of articles is limited. To a certain extent it is dictated by circumstance. This is because there are around 12,000 pages on PoC and ancillary …
Just a quick note to explain why PoC was offline for about 12 hours. It had nothing to do with me. The hosting company, Hostgator, had network problems which affected probably thousands, maybe tens of thousands, of other websites. Hostgator is based in Houston, USA as I recall but they probably have facilities in …
Why are cats so popular on the internet? The answer to this oft asked question is provided by Alexis Ohanian who is the 32-year-old co-founder of Reddit which is a major social media website receiving over 200 million visits per month. Alexis Ohanian is a cat person, a “proud cat dad” and he’s smart. …
My short commentary on this. Yahoo Answers is not bad. There is some good advice on the site. Both these questions seem to have omitted a reference to the word ‘cat’. It is fun to surmise what was in the mind of the person posing the question. In the first question, it is conceivable …
People from which country visit PoC? The chart below answers the question and informs us that the USA is completely dominant in respect of the domestic cat “marketplace”. There is far more total interest in the domestic cat in America than any other country. I would expect that the interest per person is the …
Everybody who uses Facebook could just as easily use Google+. But they don’t – well, some do but… Facebook is still dominant. Google+, “is so far behind, how can it possibly catch up?”. These are the words of Mr Chris Messina, a Silicon Valley developer who was recruited in 2010 to work on Google’s …
The internet as we know it is under threat because the explosion in online traffic is outstripping hardware upgrades across the globe which supports the Internet and in addition the individual IP address system (every computer has a number) has to be upgraded because we are running out of numbers. The IP address system …
New Google Algorithm by Michael (London, UK) Algorithmic art – photo by nikrowell (Flickr) Date of this post – 16th April 2011. The new Google algorithm that took effect on 24th February 2011 has had a negative impact on PoC and other cat and companion animal sites. It has therefore had a negative impact …
