John-Boy's Labor blog

I've been having some further fun with the "blogger" Stat counter.    In October I posted on "Giovanni's Lavoro blog" and puzzled over the large number of hits on this blog apparently from Italy. 

During the last week or so as you can see (right screenprint) most of the hits have been coming from America.  1,966 compared with 868 from the UK.  I can't think of any obvious reason for this.  In fact most of my recent hits seem to be about the UNISON Labour Link Link Forum 2009 (see below screen print).  Which was very good event but I thought it's appeal to most American's would be somewhat limited. 


We had a very good delegation meal in a Turkish restaurant; I spoke in a Forum debate on defending Public Sector pensions; Ed Miliband spoke well, so did our General Secretary Dave Prentis and Harriot Harman MP gave a good speech...but?

Any of my cousins from across the pond care to enlighten me on the reasons for the apparent interest?  Or is there any other reason?

I'm curious about the 141 Slovenia hits as well.

History of Slovenia

It seems appropriate to consider the History of Slovenia this week, so here is some interesting information about the country. It was mainly ruled by Austria-Hungary until 1918 - although it was was briefly liberated by Napoleon and remains fond of the Emperor. It contained an important front during World War 1, when Italy and Austro-Hungarian troops fought bitterly in very difficult conditions. More recently it was an influential region of Yugoslavia, but was one of the first to demand independence in 1991. This led to a 10 day war at the end of which it broke away from Yugoslavia and joined the EU a year later. It's well worth a visit!

PS: Here is a list of famous Slovenians...