In just 2 weeks, I’ll see the debut of Argus at PostieCon in Las Vegas. I already have a bit of insight into the Agrus project thanks to being involved in a PayPerPost focus group. I’m also one of the beta testes for the new stats package that comes with Argus, although I am a few days behind on inputting stats. The good news, for those of us hit hard by Google and their PR penalty this month, is that Argus will focus more on traffic and visitors and less on your PR. Real stats will determine the value of your blog. I hope more companies, like Text Link Ads, and the like, will begin to use real traffic stats to educate advertisers about our worth as bloggers, and we can show Google we don’t NEED pagerank.