Author: <span>Griff Wigley</span>

Paul Niemistö, conductor of the Cannon Valley Regional Orchestra (CVRO), among other roles, stopped by my corner office at the GBM on Tuesday to give me the promo pitch for…

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I haven’t had the flu since I was a kid. I never get flu shots. I wasn’t planning on getting an H1N1 shot when it becomes available but after listening to yesterday’s Midmorning show on MPR, I find myself now considering it. Medical myths and H1N1. Are you going to get the shot or not?

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Kudos to Tim Freeland and the gang at KYMN Radio for streaming tonight’s City Council meeting. Live TV : Ustream

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lg-webstats-sept2009-sshot LoGroNo (Locally Grown Northfield) traffic for September was up 5-18% from August, according to Google Analytics.

September compared to August:

  • 7,583 Absolute Unique Visitors; Previous: 6,417 (+18.17%)
  • 17,135 Visits; Previous: 16,216 (+5.67%)
  • 37,772 Pageviews; Previous: 34,870 (+8.32%)

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We had 874 comments, up from 785. I missed getting the number of commenters but we’ve been averaging 60-80 different people commenting since March, 2009. 

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Our Google PageRank value is 5 out of a possible 10 points according to PRChecker. (PageRank uses a base-10 logarithmic scale, same as the Richter scale. So a site with a PageRank of 5 has approximately ten times the traffic of a site with a PageRank of  4.)

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Where did our traffic come from? Our top Northfield-area referrers:

Rank – Source – Visits

3: northfield.org: 1295
11: kymnradio.net: 59
16: stolaf.edu: 44
18: bleeet.blogspot.com: 40
19: northfieldrotary.org: 39
28: grovelandscaping.com: 32
29: nddc.org: 31

The top 50 (we thank you!) of the 285 referrers: (continued)

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Blogger Linda Seebach, former editorial writer for the now-closed Rocky Mountain News, invited me to meet with her Cannon Valley Elder Collegium (CVEC) class this week for her aptly-titled course,…

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Pressville-sshot For National Coming Out Day, two Carleton students taking Doug McGill’s fall journalism class recently published Northfield-related stories: Debbie Wong published “Coming Out Day” Raises Issues and Eyebrows in Northfield on the new Pressville blog and Maia Rodriguez published On National Coming Out Day, Northfield Reflects on Its "Gay-Friendliness" on Northfield.org. I found it troubling that neither of them mentioned or linked to our 2007 blog post, How gay-friendly is Northfield? with the 30 comments attached. (continued)

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