Work has begun on making Webscavator more community open-source based, so the code has been put into github and the issues and bugs that need fixing will shortly go in there or some other free bug tracking tool. Also I will set up a mailing list for those who want updates. Since I haven't yet put Webscavator on my Google Analytic's panel (d'oh!) I have to make do with parsing out my Apache logs. Unfortunately because it's on a virtual machine all the IP addresses in the Apache logs are from the OS that is hosting the VM rather than from the requesters to the site (double d'oh!). Once I got rid of all the lines from bots and those not to the homepage, I came up with a 320 visitors to Webscavator since January 2011. Since I've not really been advertising it, I think that's a fair amount!

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