More and more I am getting requests from other traditional Arab American publications to link to them, I guess that s a good sign because they d only ask to be linked to you because they know you ve got tons of traffic coming to your site.

In other words, your position in life comes to seem not accidental, but merited and deserved.

Has your website or a website that you usually visit in Yemen been blocked?

I want to know exactly what your competition is, and then that will help me judge how you fit into the whole operation over here.

It basically figures out where on Earth you are by watching the direction the sun moves, so you don't have to actually enter anything about that.

And while you're at it, please help spread the word about the Global Voices Summit by flying one of our sweet looking Summit badges or banners on your blog or web site.

Google has become a de facto gatekeeper of information, to the extent that if your site is not highly ranked by Google, you are like the tree falling in the forest with no one to hear it.

Then there are the more subtle signals to listen to statistically whether they are feedback direct to your Web site, emails, press mentions, or Twitter and Facebook feeds. What features positive or negative are mentioned most often?

We're all embedded in vast social networks of friends, family, co workers and more. Nicholas Christakis tracks how a wide variety of traits from happiness to obesity can spread from person to person, showing how your location in the network might impact your life in ways you don't even know.