People come to this website from all over the world, for many different reasons.

A number of people stumble across this site through Google searches. People searching for information on the books that I quote (such as Jim Collins’ Good to Great) are always well represented, as are people concerned about “Global Warming”. The biggest group lately, however, have been searching for “Lord Vader” (223 people last month). Go figure…

There are people who read this site because they are in the same head space that I am - they’re into Krishna consciousness and are interested in something edgy and innovative.

Then there are people who read this site because they are in a different head space and like to read it for the shock value - either because they like to feel scandalized themselves, or else they are like passers-by rubber-necking at a car crash, trying to see if someone got killed.

I can empathize with these people. I read Krishna-kirti’s site with these motives myself. Nothing like a dash of chilli sauce with your breakfast muesli.

There are another group, however, that I haven’t really taken so much into account. These are people who are not in the same virtual headspace, but are in the same geographical space. Everyone else kind of chooses to read it or not based on whether they’re interested, but these people read it because of their physical proximity to the author, as opposed to reading the blog of a devotee in Turkey, for example.

These people are more interested in the local news, and with a local spin. I report the local news sporadically, and not with a local spin.

The other night my mate Rasa rang up from the Gold Coast. He’s started blogging and has recently started a virtual japa group online.

He was inquiring about what it would take to turn www.iskcon.org.au into a community blogging powerhouse. I referred him to the current Acarya of Community Blogs, Ekendra das, for the technical briefing.

As for content, I’m more than happy to contribute to that. I’m going to start a category from here that can feed into there. The first thing I’d like to cover are the recent renovations that Dhruva has been doing to the men’s ashram. Dhruva’s done an amazing transformation - worthy of an episode of “Extreme Ashram Makeover”. He’s going to take some pictures of it to post online.

As far as other changes to serve the local audience, we’ll see as we go forward how things evolve, in consultation of course. If you have any feedback or requests then please let me know. If you’ve got a concern or complaint then don’t be shy about bringing it up with me - your opinion is important - and if you let me know what it is, then you’ll be pleasantly surprised to see it taken into account. You don’t need to feel powerless - I get a kick out of serving people. If you’re local, you know where to find me!