Having humbly accepted (or wisely celebrated) that the world doesn't beat a path to our door, have you any numbers on general activity?

Nothing at present - with about 30,000 entries, it would take ages to sift through the membership list - unless it could be imported into e.g. Excel or Access.

Any ideas, anyone?

Title User Name	"Location"	Join Date	Num Posts	Bio Updated
	Guru Kris	Etherville , U.K.	03/09/2007	9035	03/13/2008
	Guru Del the cat	Harlow England	05/02/2007	8974	07/27/2008
	Guru Andy Germany	Near Frankfurt am Main, Germany. 50.390866N, 8.884827E	09/20/2006	7035	12/09/2008
	Guru PWSlack	In the bothy, 7 chains down the line from Dodman's Lane level crossing. Kettle's on.	01/15/2007	6782
	Guru EnviroMan	Gone to Alabama with my banjo on my knee...	11/21/2007	5755	11/21/2007
	Guru vermin	Silicon Valley	07/09/2006	4961
	Guru nighthawk	02/02/2005	4878
	Guru Sparkstation	Christchurch, (The Garden City), South Island, New Zealand	11/20/2007	4554	12/02/2008
	Guru bwire	Upper Mid-west USA	12/28/2007	4000
	Guru europium	Austin, The Republic of Texas	09/28/2006	3929	02/26/2009
	Guru Blink	08/02/2006	3650	04/03/2009
	Guru JohnDG	Reading, Berkshire, UK, 51º 27' 33.83"N, 1º 0' 21.65"W	05/10/2006	3208	11/17/2007
	The Engineer Roger Pink	Albany, New York	02/03/2005	3019
	Guru cnpower	CHINA	09/18/2006	2984	10/29/2007
	Guru Physicist?	04/13/2007	2881
	Guru TVP45	07/12/2007	2765
	Guru Moose	03/31/2005	2762	10/27/2008
	Guru Hendrik	Centurion, South Africa 25 51' 20" S 28 12' 12" E	01/09/2007	2753	06/21/2009
	Guru Milo	"Dancing over the abyss."	07/05/2006	2684	02/09/2008
	Guru Electroman	Dunstable, England	07/06/2006	2648	09/29/2006
	Guru aurizon	Toronto	06/05/2006	2575
	Guru babybear	Europe mostly	06/20/2008	2540	12/04/2008
	Guru Yuval	Israel	02/21/2007	2532	04/02/2007
	Guru masu	Sydney, AUSTRALIA	06/07/2006	2524	03/10/2009
	Guru TexasCharley	30°30'N, 97°45'W, Elv: 597 ft.	07/09/2007	2486	04/21/2009
	Guru Jorrie	25.9S, 28.1E	05/27/2006	2485	10/23/2006
	Guru bob c	Fort Lauderdale Florida	07/03/2007	2324
	Guru phoenix911	08/28/2007	2254	04/05/2008
	Guru Sharkles	Troy, NY	07/24/2007	2190	06/23/2009
	Guru sb	India	03/07/2007	2139	01/05/2009
	Guru bhankiii	El Lago, Texas, USA	09/01/2006	2115	01/25/2007
	Guru Anonymous Hero	The 'Space Coast', USA	05/05/2006	2081
	Guru Shyam	Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India	08/30/2006	2057	08/27/2007
	Guru PlbMak	East Anglia, UK	07/20/2006	2011

That's about hald the first page. It drops down to 300 pretty quick (by the 3rd page), remaining fairly steady as it drops over the other 280 odd pages of members. I'd approximate the data after the first couple of pages. (oh yeah, I sorted by "posts")

I sometimes look at the number of people reported to be on the site at any particular time. Right now as I write it is reported as 114.

Seems awhile back the highest number was reported, and I simply can't remember what that was.

I guess my point is that that number seems a good gauge of what we might call general activity.

I myself take every opportunity either in correspondence, or in conversation to recommend both Globalspec, and CR4.

Only one of my friends has come back to me and thanked me saying he would have found the site on his own, but found it 6 months sooner because I told him about it.

He only uses Globalspec typically to buy certain tools or whatnot.

Certainly that works for me, since, well, I like for my friends to make money.

In some of my political work with the local government I have recommended that Town Planners be aware of Globalspec, as a place to look for technologies to apply to the betterment of the local infrastructure.

Frankly since I am aware that Time is Money, and it appears that CR4 gets the money to run not on its own, but from Globalspec, I tend to steer those with real needs to Globalspec first.

Ideologically CR4 does seem more focused on the "life of the mind", than on making money, though now and then, that imperative does raise its head.

Any ideas on how to monetize CR4?

on that day, the life of CR4 will drain away.

Why don't we ask the wizard? (Chris Leonard would know)

so it may be a while before we actually take over the world !

Again, this is just the total number who've registered, taking no account of activity or currency.

The "inactive" members are just waiting for orders to strike.

And when they list who's on line at the bottom of the section, guest usually out number members?

Regards JD.