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title: "A Creepy Widget I Absolutely Had to Add to My Blog"
date: 2008-03-30
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# A Creepy Widget I Absolutely Had to Add to My Blog
The [Live Traffic Feed Widget from Feedjit](http://feedjit.com/) allows you to see details about who's visiting your blog in real-time. If you look in the right sidebar of my blog (lower-right), you'll see everyone who is reading my blog at the current moment -- both what they're reading and where they're from.

This kind of information creeps me out a bit, knowing that a handful of strangers are silently looking in my mental windows. For example, as I'm writing this, people in Johor and Ankara (are those places on earth?) are reading posts I wrote months ago. And some guy from Jersey is reading a post on printable to-do lists that's more than a year old.

Who are these people? Is the content I wrote weeks/months/years ago still valid? Does it have a bunch of typos and outdated perspectives?