[Vision2020] Do the Math

[Paul Rumelhart]

Donovan Arnold wrote:

> Dale did not say Tom visited his blog 31,000 times. Dale said his 
> computer accessed 31,000 files in the last year. There is a 
> difference. Each time you visit a site, one to ten files can open up 
> at the same time. A photo for example can count as one file. It is 
> easy to determine the number of visits by looking at the time of the 
> access. If you have have 2 files accessed at the same time, that would 
> be one visit.
>  
> Someone on that computer visits the Dale's Blog several times most 
> days of the week, as many as twenty or thirty times in a seven hour 
> period between 7:30 am and 2:30 pm.
>  
> How can access that many files? Let's do that math;
>  
> 20 visits a day, 5 times a week equals 100 visits a week. If each 
> visit opened 7 files (including photos and graphs) that would be 700 
> files opened in one week, over 46 weeks of work in the year, that 
> would equals 32,200 accesses.
>  
> This pretty much is the habit of logging in to Dale's blog from that 
> IP address if you look at the log of the file as I have.
>  
> If a person were to spend their entire six hour shift monitoring a 
> Blog, they could hit a site 20 times in a day.
>  
> What is the point of this? The point is that someone on the taxpayer's 
> dime is monitoring a non related site, and is doing so against UI 
> policy. May I remind people also, that this is just one website being 
> accessed by that computer. Is it possible this same computer is going 
> to other sites as well during the day on the taxpayer's dime?
>  
> I as a taxpayer, don't want to be paying someone to monitor Dale's 
> Blog. What a waste of UI resources.
>  
> Donovan


If he simply loads the page, looks for a new blog entry, and leaves his 
browser open, then it's not that bad.  He just hits "refresh" every so 
often, possibly between doing other things.  Just refresh, read a new 
comment or two, then come back to it in a half-hour or so.  It's also 
possible he's using RSS feeds if the blog provides them, so it's not 
necessarily clear that he is even reading them at the times they are 
accessed.  His RSS reader might be configured to check for new content 
on a regular interval.

If he is spending a significant amount of time reading the blog 20 times 
a day every day instead of doing his work, then you may have a point.  
But let's not jump to conclusions just yet.

Paul