Blogs I Wanna Be When I Grow Up

Last year I had a bit of luck and got a few hits on a couple of Popular Posts, well, for me anyway. These posts kept my daily visitors at around 1,000 and often over a 1,000 a day. I know, you scoff at my measly 1,000 hits a day. Muhahah! I get that before breakfast! You say with justifiable contempt. Or maybe you’re one of those bloggers whose hits all come from you checking your stats every hour. I was there in the beginning as well. But now that I have a couple of years under my belt and…

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Comments? We Don’t Need No Stinken Comments

“First.” “first” “First!” Top comments on most popular blogs-Little Green Footballs has banned this silly and pointless practice. I wrote a blog post on Altered States of Consciousness and this post got around 13000 hits. For me this is the current record. I know, small potatoes for the Perez Hiltons and Boing Boings of the world. This story was on the front page of FARK. It got a handful of Diggs. It even got a few random Googlers looking at it. So, how many comments did I get from these 13000 or so visitors? On my blog, I got 5…

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