Was just looking at my stats in TypePad, and it seems that since I started this blog in May 2005, I’ve had this many page views:
928,647
Which means that, at my current daily-view rate, we should hit our millionth page view in about six weeks. (Obviously, if y’all had been reading at the current rate, I’d have hit it long ago; the pace has picked up considerably lately.)
We should mark the occasion somehow. Maybe I’d give a prize for the millionth viewer, except I don’t know that there’s any way to identify that person. Maybe I’ll just pick someone arbitrarily.
Or maybe I’ll just give myself a prize. I’m the one who did all the danged work, after all.
Other suggestions? No, I mean nice suggestions…
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Brad Warthen is the Wilt Chamberlin of blogging.
I have mentioned a couple of times that it is about how many hits you get on the blogs and not the subject matter.
I am not criticizing you. I am just saying that you are a smart man and know how to push the buttons to get the people to react. Of course, with a few plants in the mix to keep us upset. Could I mention Bud? Maybe Bud is not a plant to keep us stirred and boiling but he does a good job one way or the other.
Maybe the lucky one will be Bud. Maybe you could serve him up a dish of conservatism? Or maybe he could tell us where to find the money tree to pay for the great society.
Good going Brad. I enjoy reading the blog.
How about give your family a day with you away from the keyboard. Hmmm…but after typing this I think maybe not. Spouse and I went to Hawaii last fall and had romantic notions of turning our attention to only each other. It lasted for the 10-hour plane ride. After the plane landed we were both pulling our laptops out faster than the smokers were digging for their packs. Maybe rewarding yourself with an upgraded tech toy would be a more fitting reward?
If you are really concerned about our state squandering its chances on a wireless cloud, how about letting folks know that the amendment that keeps ETV from implementing anything was added by McConnell after the telecom industry gave $300,000 to his Hunley project.
Brad, you keep wasting your (and our) time attacking Sanford for taking legitimate principled stands and give way too many legislators a pass even though many of them act like total unethical dirtballs. Throw out the bums….starting with most state legislators and including some on The State ed board if you folks don’t get a clue.
The real question is how many unique visitors do you average and is that number trending up. The page view is a dying metric in the web world. Just ask the folks at thestate.com what their traffic goal is tied to… I bet it’s not page views.
This blog always reminds me of the magazine section of the public library downtown. I always see the same half-dozen homeless guys sitting around, passing time.
Congrats Brad. Keep up the good work. I think your blog, and many bloggers in your “fun with links” list, make a nice contribution to the public dialog. In your case, I think it’s interesting to learn what goes on behind the scenes at The State.
Also, your blog draws people with many different points of view. A lot of blogs draw only people of the same political philosophy. But I can check in here, and get several very different points of view on a single topic.
At times I wish the tone of the discussion was more civil. It’s a mystery to me why some writers are so insulting. But there’s not much you can do about that. Better to err on the side of free speech. The important thing is that there are forums like this to debate and discuss.
About that Gergel endorsement……
OK, so “the State,” endoses Gergel. ho hum.
But, the part about how her husband’s law firm does business with the city, but he is “doing the right thing,” if I recall the exact quote by not profitting from any work that comes the firm’s way from the city is absolutely laughable.
Let’s say, for instance, that you happen to work at a law firm that does business – lots of it for the better part of two decades – with the city of columbia. THat law firm get’s paid for the work. But, you don’t profit from that one contract. Oh come on! When those checks from the city come in, does the firm not pay for paper clips, electricity, furniture, water, coffee, toilet paper, water bills, etc. etc etc. from those checks?
And you work for that firm, right?
So you use the building, the facilities, the staff, the electricity, etc, etc, etc but you “personally do not profit,” from this contract?
Hardee har har……
This just does not pass the smell test and to hold this ‘arrangement,’ up as the right thing to do is a joke.