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Wednesday, August 04, 2004
Keeping Things In Perspective
I'd just like to say, that when Johanna says she likes my reviews, I get about 400 people checking out my site. When Mike name-drops me, I get about 400 people coming to my site. When Tim responds to my defense of a book to remain nameless, I get about 200 people coming to see what I said. When Larry points out that I reviewed an AIT book, or Neil thinks I said something noteworthy, I get about 100 people coming to see what exactly I said. Mag notes the vast Ventura County blog conspiracy and about another 100 people want to know more. Heck, Ken sends about a 100 people my way without even specifically mentioning me in an entry. And all the other sites that send traffic my way are good for about 50-100 visitors a month.
So, when some guy I've never heard of, on a site that I find just a tad pretentious, links to my site in a somewhat confused article on how there are too many comics blogs and none of them are any good, and I only get 30 visitors as a result of it, that tells me something very important about the number of people reading his column versus the number of people regularly reading comics blogs.
Also, according to Blogger, this is my 100th post. So, to celebrate, here is a sixteen year old photo of yours truly (on the left) with my pal John, who is responsible for irresponsible muckraking and trenchant music criticism (on the right).