House of Eratosthenes

When I call this “The Blog That Nobody Reads” (see the FAQ, Question 9), the point isn’t to say that nobody reads the blog, since it’s obvious a lot of people do. The point, rather, is to proclaim that this blog is about making sense, not about being watched. One may strive for both, but only one objective can be paramount.

Having said that, however, every now and then it can’t hurt to say a few words about who comes along to draw water from the well from which nobody else drinks. The blog has been kicking ass lately as far as making sense, so the time has come to pay a little bit of attention to — well, to those who pay attention. You folks are welcome, and appreciated, and the meme of calling you “nobodies” is certainly not intended as a slight towards you. FAQ Question #12 makes this clear.

And I’d like to issue a special welcome to the fans of Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler. Not to disparage the other savvy individuals who’ve seen fit to mention The Blog That Nobody Reads…such as the American Digest, Pass The Ammo, Exile in Portales, Running Roach, News Blog Central, Nightmare Hall, Hello Iraq, Blogs With A Face, Mein BlogoVault…geez, hope I didn’t miss anybody. In fact, a big part of the “nobody reads” reference is to subtly acknowledge that in some ways, a lot of ways, your mentioning me is just as important, even if by doing so you yield no surplus traffic to this site at all. You folks have good taste. However many people know that you do, matters not one bit. If a tree falls and nobody hears it, it still makes noise.

I’m truly thankful to you folks, and I don’t mean to write in such a way that you get the feeling there’s a “BUT” coming. There must be one, because credit must be given where it is due. And although issue of exposure is a little out-of-scope for this blog, this is worthy of some comment: Referral-wise, The Rottweiler is a whole new territory for us here. I’ve been looking at the Sitemeter reports, and I’m just amazed. Good golly, Miss Molly.

Here’s what’s been going on. “Darth Misha” listed this blog and gave it some fanfare Thursday night. Not a lot of fanfare, just something in the same ballpark as what I gave him the day before. Throughout Friday, the traffic just poured in. Texas. South Carolina. Virginia. Germany. France. Hawaii. Thailand. It went on and on and on…

…by the stroke of midnight, the traffic of June 2 (PDT) was closed out and we had just b-a-r-e-l-y matched the hitherto-unmentioned “Chevillar Spike” when Erica Chevillar’s swimsuit scandal was written up the weekend of May 12. Barely. “Visits” squeaked out a new record, and “page views” fell just short of the earlier spike. “Page views,” hmmm…you know, that in itself is a little bit of an unfair comparison. We’re talking about an awesome-looking college student in a little red bikini here. I’m thinking “visits” is a more sensible metric, and we’ve just set a record.

None of this is anything to write home about for a better-established blog, nor, for the reasons stated already, is it a central consideration here. So with that note of self-congratulations and salute to Darth Misha — Misha, you’re the man — we humbly submerge back into the waters of the well from which nobody draws, to resume our passion regarding matters of common sense, and our apathy toward how many people are paying attention. Those of you who are new, why don’t you take off your coats & stay awhile, and have a look around.

Thanks for the welcome. I really think you have something here. It’s called Sanity. A pleasure reading the views of a real thinker.
Batchrusher AIR
- bat crusher | 06/04/2006 @ 03:54

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