Spiders via Vietnam go hog-wild

 kw: blogs, blogging, spider scanning

I entered to add a post and found the highest activity rate to date. This is the past 24 hours (prior to 10:00 am EDT):

In the recent past Hong Kong and Singapore have provided the bulk of activity, but in the pass few weeks they have been overtaken by Vietnam. Almost 33,000 views! I was curious about the ongoing rate, so I checked the "Now" screen:

The scale is views per minute for the past two hours. The "plateau" sits between 0.7 and 1.3 views per second, and just that 80-minute stretch comes to about 5,000 views, more than 90% tagged to Vietnam.

I say "tagged" because I suspect the country has some fast DNS servers and Asian VPN's are using them. So why the activity? I have one surmise: AI training. Perhaps many blogs are being gulped down wholesale for such purposes.

Hey, guys, if you're relying on my writings for AI training, you're in real trouble!! You'll generate Artificial Nerdism. Maybe that's a redundancy.