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Maybe you should blog in Esperanto, the international language? :)

There are few possibilities.

1) Maybe there are others like me who always travel for business. When we travel, we still want to update ourself with what happens in Malaysia. And by not trusting the major newspaper, reading blog is the only option.

2) There are people who like to suft the net anonymously, i am not one of them, but i know some of them. If they are using proxy to suft the net, then the data capture by clustrmap will not indicate the real location of the reader.

JEFF OOI says: Likely & plausible.

Just my thought.

Don't trust such info 100%. Check your server IP tracking mechanism first. There are many users using anonymous web redirectors. You need to incorporate a ping into your IP check and match the ping length and the geographical location.

KEFF OOI says" That is tedious. I have an automated analysis based on actual server logs, which I shared with advertising cagencies. It gives the same snapshots with larger chunks of local traffic coming from TM Net networks.

Jeff,

First of all, I am delighted to see a small red blib in the Salt Lake Valley (Utah), USA :) Though I am based in Salt Lake City, UT, I travel around the US because of work. No matter where I am, I faithfully read your blog.

I have visited Mexico three times in the past two years. In addition to Mexico City, I have been to the remote areas. The remote places that I am talking about are approximately 8 hours by road from Mexico City. Some of these areas are on mountain tops, where the entire population is indegenious.

During my various visits, I have been pleasantly surprised by the ability of the younger generation to speak in English. While some of them can speak a smattering array of words, there are those who can converse at length in the language.

Many of them are eager to speak to me when they hear me speak in the language.

Delving further into this phenomenon, I have concluded that the main reason that they are eager to speak in English is upward mobility.

In Mexico, having the ability to speak in English provides the following opportunities:
a) getting a well paid job in a MNC
b) the ability to read technical books written in English
c) professional jobs available to Mexican citizens in the US under NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement)
d) better job prospects in Mexican companies doing international trade

Coming back to the indegenious people, I stayed with a family where one of the family members was so happy to converse with me in English. He had studied English as a single subject and this was the first time that he was conversing in English outside of the classroom. He was the first person to graduate in his family.

I got a good chuckle when his mom told me (in Spanish) that she was pleasantly surprised that her son did learn something after all from all those English lessons that she had paid for :) The best part of that last statement is, I had heard it from various parents during my travel within Mexico.

I would thus suggest that you continue to blog in English. If the content is interesting enough, you will see your readership / viewership in Latin America growing steadily.
As the famous saying goes, build and they shall come. In your case, it would be more apt to say, write in English and the Latin American audience will come trickling in ...

SabaM

JEFF OOI says: Thanks for sharing, my friend.

hi jeff, i've been regularly following your blog, even when i was in outback Australia!! perhaps that explained the blip on the map.:) was doing attachment in Alice Springs Hospital in August and early September..just want to tell you that you're 1 true malaysian and am really proud of you! please keep up your good work.

p/s: have told all my family members in malaysia to vote for you!!:D

Initially, i thought it was a map showing where the volcanoes were.
the readership in Us and europe probably from investors/hedge funds/news reporters gauging latest info from malaysia, apart from those who had migrated, working or studying there.

That's me right there in Germany. The big red one.

Malaysian is everywhere in this world .. just like me in Warsaw, Poland !

Glad to know I contribute to that big blob in Japan :)

Dunno where else to turn to for the real deal of what's happening back home. Keep it up, and keep it honest :)