Reading through JFA? as I do daily, I came across this portion of a comment by “ablogbunny”:
Yes, it’s his blog (I think) and he can do as he pleases, and so can those who are looking for local news and information. This post is a prime example of the inane — who gives a hoot about the subject (the photos are well-taken, but so what?).
That said, it is sad that this blog seems to be going the way that Delmarva Dealing (sic) went and Duvafiles is heading. Several months ago there were three significant local blogs, soon we may have none. (emphasis mine)
Unless someone upstairs has other plans, I’m not going anywhere. So does that make me insignificant? Please.
Obviously “ablogbunny” hasn’t read here. Maybe I’m not so much into the local news, but I’ll contribute where I see fit (certainly on the development issue.) I’ll probably have much more of a local focus once we get past the 2006 election and 3 members of the so-called “Dream Team” begin their campaigns. Will we have a Crisfield-style “clean sweep”?
A blog is completely up to the writer, if they are like me they write about what is interesting to them. So I’m not all local politics, I delve into other issues and also like to have recurring features that no one else does (Shorebird of the Week, Ten Questions, Political Calendar, etc.)
The blogs were quite popular a couple months ago, things have tailed off as usual during the summer. Come Labor Day, we’ll be back in the news as we all focus on the elections. (In monoblogue’s case though, my hit rate has still slowly increased. This month I should have over 30,000 hits, although the system is skewed because I had one day when I was being hammered by comment spam, that probably added an extra 6,000 hits to a “normal” day.)
Speaking of other blogs, let me take this moment to welcome two more blogs to the Maryland Bloggers Alliance – Crablaw and Kevin Dayhoff’s blog. We have now reached a membership of nine, although I’m still the only one on the Eastern Shore. Welcome aboard to you two!
Maybe they see me as more significant than “ablogbunny” does.
Your website is relevant, as I have read every post for months, though this is my first comment. Have patience; keep publishing; grow thick skin; and always support maverick candidates who are fair.
That’s all right, I don’t have to be one of the “big three” in town, I have my own set of fans. Just like to tweak people once in awhile since many of them are on the opposite side of me as far as the local development issue is concerned.
By the way, nice catch on that LG pick, you certainly had everyone else scooped. We’ll see what she brings to the Ehrlich ticket.
Your website is excellent, interesting, and always contains the truth unlike “the Big 3”.I am always amused when the “Big 3” ridicule the Daily Disappoinntment for not researching their material while the bloggers are equally as guilty of publishing rumors, myths and inuendos. Don’t let ablogbunny get you down. She’ll come around.
I tell you, there’s no research like being there. 🙂
Anyway, it’s nice to know I have such loyal fans, and also that readership is truly growing despite the lack of respect.
I did look up my site on my server’s web stats sheet. The left number is “hits” for the month and the right is actual “visits” which I suppose discounts the search engine “bots” that hit all sites. The number on the far right is the percentage of hits/visits, the higher the better because that’s actual readers.
December 2005 5412 1017 18.79
January 2006 10068 1763 17.51
February 2006 9198 2976 32.35
March 2006 19635 5583 28.43
April 2006 15515 5087 32.78
May 2006 24830 5873 23.65
June 2006 32173 7666 23.82
June was through 9:00 yesterday morning, so it’s essentially complete. I had the “day from spam comment hell” on the 23rd with 6,998 hits in one day, so that skews my June numbers quite a bit (thus I’m figuring about 6,000 fewer legitimate hits.)
But the daily visit numbers run in the 200’s on a normal day now whereas in March they ran in the 150’s range.
I know JFA? has claimed to have 50,000 hits in a month back about the time of the Blogger crash, but I’m not sure of either his or Duvafiles’ numbers because they are both Blogger sites and I’ve not seen a site meter on them. But these are the numbers that my server (midPhase) provides to me.