International Hits on "Piracy on the High Seas"

Capt. Richard Phillips was freed by US Navy Seals after days on the lifeboat with four pirates, three of whom were killed in the rescue. Great work by the Capt. and the Seals. The precedent of not paying ransom for US-flagged ships and personnel has been preserved.

The 10 April 2009 Blog posting Piracy on the High Seas has generated lots of hits, many of them international. South Africa, Pakistan, China, Croatia, Nigeria, India, ... and even Massachusetts! (How many flags did you recognize? Can you match them to the countries listed?)

To see which topics have garnered interest over the past few days, scroll down the right-hand column and look for the Live Traffic Feed, then go to the bottom of that box and click Watch in Real Time. Joel's Is PowerPoint Anti-Intellectual?, and my Where Have All the Sunspots Gone? and Female Mind vs Male Mind and others continue to attract readers.

I find it interesting to look at the wide variety of national and international lurkers we have reading our stuff!

Here are the folks following the Piracy posting, and, in some cases, you can click the hypertext and see the Google search they did to learn of the posting:


Johannesburg, Gauteng arrived from blogsearch.google.com on "The Virtual Philosophy Club: Piracy on the High Seas" by searching for blogsearch.google.com.
Islamabad arrived from blogsearch.google.com on "The Virtual Philosophy Club: Piracy on the High Seas" by searching for blogsearch.google.com.
Chengdu, Sichuan arrived on "The Virtual Philosophy Club: Piracy on the High Seas".
Sandwich, Massachusetts arrived from google.com on "The Virtual Philosophy Club" by searching for moral and phylisphocal problems with paying ransom demands.
New York arrived on "The Virtual Philosophy Club: Piracy on the High Seas".
Rokovci, Vukovarsko-Srijemska arrived from blogsearch.google.com on "The Virtual Philosophy Club: Piracy on the High Seas" by searching for blogsearch.google.com.
San Diego, California arrived from blogsearch.google.com on "The Virtual Philosophy Club: Piracy on the High Seas" by searching for blogsearch.google.com.
Bénin, Edo arrived from blogsearch.google.com on "The Virtual Philosophy Club: Piracy on the High Seas" by searching for blogsearch.google.com.
Gary, Indiana arrived from blogsearch.google.com on "The Virtual Philosophy Club: Piracy on the High Seas" by searching for blogsearch.google.com.
Sandwich, Massachusetts arrived from google.com on "The Virtual Philosophy Club" by searching for moral and phylisphocal problems with paying ransom demands.
Kochi, Kerala arrived from blogsearch.google.com on "The Virtual Philosophy Club: Piracy on the High Seas" by searching for blogsearch.google.com.

I take this as proof the Earth has developed a central nervous system. The stuff you and I write on this Blog is distributed and alerts are sent in real-time to interested people all over the world.

IMHO, this develpment has wide-ranging implications for the development of an international conscousness and unprecedented shared values and civilization over the coming decades!

Ira Glickstein