As my father used to say: it’s not about what you know, but who you know to get anywhere in life. Anyway, I’ve always enjoyed getting visitors from the planet’s most exotic locations or just watch corporate employees from Fortune 500 companies spending more than the classic three drive-by seconds at my humble blog, in search of a post I’d never imagined being able to hold anyone’s attention.
A US government employee once really surprised me by actually posting a comment from his DC office PC, as we all know that the blogosphere at large is no longer a place of innocent diary keeping. Blogs get searched, indexed, cached, scanned for pictures, videos and keywords, often by systems like Echelon, along with the numerous other programs aimed at achieving ‘total information awareness’. And trust me, the supercomputer scanning your “dear diary” blog will not leave any recognizable traces in your logs.
So imagine my total surprise when I recently started getting a regular reader (yes, he/she didn’t even bother to update his outdated Firefox browser) from the CIA headquarters in Langley, Fairfax County, Virginia, a few miles west of Washington, D.C, USA. No bot, a real human being, kindly browsing my baby pictures and taking his/her time to read several of my posts. As this visitor is passing by during US office hours, he/she must be truly interested in this low-traffic blog from that tiny European kingdom by the sea. Thank you for visiting, ‘CIA’, I’m obviously proud being able to assist in “providing national security intelligence to senior US policymakers”.
If you’re a blogger, who’s your most famous visitor?
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