If you’re coming here from this post, welcome to the fray. You don’t know this (and neither did Mark) but you’re about to help settle a point of contention.
Peter David was asking me whether there had been any traffic surge due to this article in the London Independent saying his blog was one of the quirkiest on the net, and I said I hadn’t seen any. Then I followed up with, “On the other hand, if Neil or Mark mentions you in his blog, traffic will spike.”
And now, lo and behold, Mark’s just given me a link.
So we’re going to take a day or two and see what it does to my traffic, and we’ll see if Mark Evanier has more blog juice than one of the larger newspapers in Great Britain. Watch this space.
I’m betting Mark’s got the juice; that’s how I got here.
Can I just say that the phrase “blog juice” makes me uncomfortable?
Mark sent me
Funnily enough I’m from the UK but I was directed to he Independent article from Peters’ blog where I have lurked (but not posted) for a year or three.
However, Mark sent me here.
I should point out that The Idependent is one of several National newspapers that fall under the umbrella title of ‘broadsheets’ These also include The Times, The Guardian and The Telegraph which are aimed at the more discerning reader, or what used to be called the ‘Upper Class’. The ‘Working Class’ (what you would call ‘Blue Collar’) tend to pick up the ‘tabloids’ which include such illuminaries as The Sun, The Mirror, The Star, The Daily Mail and The Express. These, for the most part, tend to be a bit more ‘sensationalist’ in their news reporting.
Now I’ve got here, I’ll probably lurk here too.
Please excuse the typos in the above post
Typos? I just thought it was another bunch of odd British spellings.
If you think that’s odd, come and listen to the cricket on BBC radio 😉