Update #1
A brief update of recent developments on darkmatter:
a) Forthcoming Journal Issue: The Race/Matter call for papers generated excellent interest, and the next special Issue is planned to be on-line Dec 07.
b) Site Stats:
- we are 4 months old;
- averaging over 1000 visits/month;
- over 80 people have subscribed to the weekly newsletter;
- around 25% of our traffic is from google;
- 40% of visitors are not from the UK or USA;
- 35% of visitors have returned to the site;
- average time reading is 7mins.
We’re not breaking any internet records(!) but gaining a loyal following…
c) Facebook Group: if you’re a member of Facebook, there’s an ‘informal’ darkmatter group recently created with open membership - feel free to join. (You need to be registered with Facebook; search for ‘darkmatter Journal’ in Groups)
d) Posting Comments: You may now edit Preview your comments before posting. [Currently testing this new feature Replaced Edit comment due to problems with this function]
e) Referrers/Links: On the About Info page, you can see how some visitors are finding darkmatter (updates daily)
f) Site Upgrade: there was a recent ‘under-the-hood’ upgrade to the latest version of Wordpress used to run darkmatter. All seems to be working fine, but please let us know of any problems.
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