Hello Reston
The main reason why I look at the statcounter data of visitors to PGR is to find new Katrina bloggers. Almost daily, PGR gets multiple hits from a peculiar location. I also find curious the fact that the server is a proxy. 
It could just be a market research company -- or is it a cover for something else? Anyone know of another "research company" in Reston? Am I just paranoid?
Then again, it might just be AOL -- the evil empire. Or should we question why America Online is based in Reston, and why it has with such fervor tried to take over the world of internet access?
posted by Schroeder @ 6:04 AM
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It's probably the NSA.
My sister-in-law lives right next to AOL campus. She used to be MCI/WorldCom employee before they wen't belly up. Which brings me to point....NSA, FBI, CIA, DHS, etc. are mostly running on UUNET backbone in D.C. area. That's why WorldCom wasn't dissovled in bankruptcy proceedings and allowed to "reorganize". They couldn't allow UUNET (WorldCom's largest asset) to be potentially bought up by foreign investor. UUNET now belongs to Verizon.
So I think your AOL traffic is good thing...not BB.
Or maybe I'm a mis-information agent :)
Well, if it's anything other than aol, they've been visiting polimom for months.
There are several from Reston that regularly hit my blog.
You're making me paranoid, Schroeder! lol....
Now that you mention it, I've been getting hits from Reston for most of the time I've been blogging. I figured there was just a reader in that area, but you never know. Funny that the most overtly chilling visitor I've had was from CENTCOM, but it turns out he's the webmaster and has been visiting everyone who's linked to their site (and he's very nice). So...is that comforting? Probably not. But it's just to say that without more information we're in the dark.
So, of course, immediately after writing that comment, I check Statcounter and find that an AOL server in Reston just followed a PGR link to realitique. Damn crawlers.
It's just an AOL user. I've been able to test and verify that anyone using AOL appears that way in your stats -and the comment about your site making it to the cache is accurate as well.
Right around the time of the presidential election, I was getting all kinds of hits from DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency) and various DOD and government addresses, which caused what I think was a bit of justifiable paranoia. But I'm still here.
Pretty interesting responses all. Lisa, still here?
They're just widening the dragnet to bring down the whole conspiracy of liberal bloggers.
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