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ROK Drop Stats for April 2008

» by GI Korea May 6th, 2008 at 8:00 pm » Comments (3)

Here is another quick update for everyone on the status of the ROK Drop, who is reading the site, and what visitors are reading.  Stats for this month were pretty flat compared to last month with uniques rising by five and page views dropping by 31.  Americans continue to be the main readers of the […]

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ROK Drop Stats for March 2008

» by GI Korea April 9th, 2008 at 10:34 am » Comments (11)

Listed below is a quick update of the status of the ROK Drop. The stats show that readership of the ROK Drop continues to grow. Last August the ROK Drop was receiving 329 unique views a day and that has now grown to 832 uniques per day last month. This is great […]

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The Marmot Quits Blogging

» by GI Korea April 1st, 2008 at 5:03 am » Comments (6)

If you haven’t heard yet, big news in the K-blogosphere, The Marmot has decided to quit blogging.
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ROK Drop Theme Changes

» by GI Korea February 14th, 2008 at 7:22 pm » Comments (13)

UPDATE: I’m not very good at this whole color thing so I would appreciate some feedback on the colors I chose for the links, the post banner, and the blog banner.    Thanks.
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I am currently working on the template.  I recently upgraded my version of Wordpress and the K2 theme I have been operating for over […]

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Take the Traveller IQ Test

» by GI Korea January 4th, 2008 at 4:27 am » Comments (7)

This test via Coming Anarchy is quite interesting and definitely challenging in the later stages.  Here is how I scored:

My score of 507,145 is what I received on my first attempt.  How many of my readers out there can top that score on your first try?  Give it a shot. 
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Recommended Reading

» by GI Korea October 22nd, 2007 at 6:55 am » Comments (2)

Thanks to Nomad I have found a blog I wasn’t aware of before called Seoul Searcher which is written by retired Korea Herald journalist Cho Se-hyon.  His postings are very well written and he takes a really honest view about things in Korea.  You can start with reading his views on how President Roh ignored […]

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ROK Drop Stats for August 2007

» by GI Korea September 3rd, 2007 at 12:24 pm » Comments (1)

Site traffic has been down a little bit in August probably because of UFL preventing all the USFK personnel and contractors from sitting in their office all day reading blogs.  Isn’t that what we all do at work?  This may also be why Australian viewers have surpassed South Korea for the second most visits to […]

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Check Out the New Blog

» by GI Korea August 7th, 2007 at 7:09 am » Comments (0)

I have recently started a new blog to put all my non-Korea related postings on.  This should keep this blog totally focused on Korea and northeast Asia while still providing a space for people to comment on milblog postings.  I currently have postings up about Barack Obama, the Pat Tilman case, shedding body armor in […]

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ROK Drop Stats for July 2007

» by GI Korea August 5th, 2007 at 9:17 am » Comments (0)

Site traffic has continued to build this month with total uniques up by over 1,500 and total visits up by over 5,000 compared to June.  The hostage crisis has brought in plenty of visitors, but the grandma rape case post continues to get high traffic as well from people searching for grandma rape on search […]

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ROK Drop Stats for June 2007

» by GI Korea July 2nd, 2007 at 7:04 pm » Comments (10)

I have decided to start doing monthly update on how well the ROK Drop blog has been doing and recognizing my top referrers.  Since I moved my site over to Wordpress last December traffic to site has slowly been building month by month.  I appreciate everyone who stops by and reads what I have to […]

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Wild Nomad

» by GI Korea July 1st, 2007 at 8:38 am » Comments (0)

I you haven’t seen them yet, Jack Hanna Nomad has some great pictures of a wildlife encounter during one of his fishing trips.
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Memorial Day Rememberance

» by GI Korea May 28th, 2007 at 9:52 am » Comments (7)

Highly recommend everyone go and read Michael Yon’s posting on Memorial Day. 
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