Projects &
Collaborations
Browse through the thousands of links in my knowledge base
sorted according to topic category, author and
publication.
Research
Browse through the thousands of links in my knowledge base
sorted according to topic category, author and
publication.
Stephen
Downes
About
Me
Bio, photos, and assorted odds and ends.
Publications
You know, the ones that appear in refereed journals of
Outstanding Rank.
Presentations
Lectures, seminars, and keynotes in a wide variety of
formats - everything from streaming video to rough
notes.
Articles
All my articles, somewhere around 400 items dating from
1995.
Audio
Audio recordings of my talks recorded in MP3 format. A
podcast feed is also available.
Calendar
What I'm doing, where I'm doing it, and when.
Photos
A collection of my photographs. Suitable
for downloading as desktop wallpaper.
Stephen's Web
Since 1995
About this Site
Why this site exists, what it does, and how it works.
OLDaily
Edu_RSS
FOAF
OLDaily Audio
OPML
About the Author
Stephen
Downes
Copyright © 2004 Stephen Downes
National Research Council
Canada
Contact: stephen@downes.ca
This work is licensed under a
Creative
Commons License
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The Referrers System lets you list the sites that sent
visitors from their page to your page. Though similar to
services such as the ones described on Disenchanted, this service allows you to
create the list of referrers using a single JavaScript
command.
This is a free service. Actual referrer data is hosted on
my site, though if you don't like that you can download the
script [last upgraded September 5, 2002, current version
1.001] from this page and install it yourself.
Try the Referrer System on your website
To try this out, place the following chunk of Javascript on
your web page where you want the list of referrers to show
up. You do not need to change it at all. I recommend
placing it at the bottom of the page so it loads last.
<script language="Javascript"
src="http://www.downes.ca/referrers.js"></script>
Download and install referrer script yourself
For those of you who do not want your referral data being
sent to my website, the referral scipts are also provided.
Download these scripts and install them on your own system.
They are available free under GPL (and if you come up with
fixes, etc., please send me a note). Use the right-click to
download:
referrers.js
referrers.txt
Put these scripts on your website. Change the name of
referrers.txt to referrers.cgi and chmod to 775. Edit
referrers.js to point to referrers.cgi. Edit referrers.cgi
to specify your data directory and home URL (so you don't
log self referrals).
Then, instead of the javascript described above, change it
so it points to the location of referrers.js on your own
site. And you're done!
Who Else is Using this Script?
I don't record downloads and installations (though if you
do download it and get it running, it would be nice if you
sent me a note so I
could advise you of upgrades). Sites and pages using the
referral script through my server are listed
here.
Changes, Upgrades, Etc.
I post change upgrade and change information in the
discussion below. When a change is made, a link will appear
in your referrer list (assuming you are using my script,
not one you downloaded and installed yourself) linking
directly to the post.
Below is the discussion thread related to this article (you
can syndicate any of my discussions on your page using a
simple Javascript command; click here
for more information).
