I've seen a big spike on my blog today. Normally, it means I've put on a lot of new content. But in this case, it means I'm finally on the blog list for OpenSolaris.

Now I blog quite a bit about OpenSolaris and I never bothered seeing if I was on that page. But I started looking at it, saw the stuff for NFSv4 in Action, and wondered what the criteria was to get my feed pulled there. It is simple, follow the instructions on the site page.

I also like playing games with google and my latest is with kanigix. I invented the term last week and registered a couple of domains - kanigix.org. It took a couple of days for it to show up, mainly after my posts on creating a bootable x86 DVD.

But what I found was interesting were the sites which are Agrregators. Now, I saw someone else get mad about this, (wow, I was able to hit this one: Making Money With Someone Else's Writing?), but I figure the intent is to be seen. If you are ranting, who cares how the message gets out? If you are doing a technical entry, who cares how the other person gets help from you?

But, it should be the case that a reader can easily get back to where you blog. I don't care for the page hits, but I do care about being quoted or allowing someone to find something I did before I was put on the agrregator. So I've stuck a copyright section on each of my posts - it also contains a link back to Kool Aid Served Daily.

By the way, I found myself on planetsolaris.org and planetsun.org. Both of these made sense. Also, so does the The League of Professional System Administrators. Some of the others do not.

Also, if I was concerned with page hits, I think I would take the javascript from statcounter.com and figure a way to embed it in every entry and only have it count once.

Or perhaps it is as simple as a protocol for Agrregators to pass back hits to the site being fed from?