This includes a *shameless plug alert*.
I got an e-mail from Elbert last night and it gave me a laugh, so I give him the hat tip and a fresh 180-day cycle. You’ll see what I mean in a moment.
But as he said:
Joe’s gonna be mad and have a tantrum when he sees this.
What he’s referring to is a post he came across on ShoreBlogs, one where Technorati rankings are discussed. According to them, monoblogue has the largest number of links among Delmarva bloggers, with 73 sites linking to mine. Salisbury News is second with just 54.
I’m sure some will argue that, yeah, it’s because you crosspost to Red Maryland all the time. Nope, sorry, that only counts as one link regardless of how many articles I crosspost. While it’s true that each time I do so restarts that 180 day clock, the same can be said for the multitude of sites linked up with Joe’s. I suspect I do pick up a little extra by being in the Maryland Bloggers Alliance, but not all of those blogs have our widget so it doesn’t always accrue to my benefit.
I just take this as a sign that I’m doing something right in all of this because people continue to find my site worth reading. It’s also why I’m trying to increase my operating tempo to 2 posts a day during the week so there’s more variety in what I write about and incentive to visit more than once a day. Sure, it will still be predominantly political but I’m trying to work in other issues and viewpoints that you may not have seen or heard before and commenting as appropriate.
By the way, have you noticed how Joe posts every few days a picture of what the price of gasoline was a year or so prior? Over the last 2 years, I’ve done the same with grocery prices in posts I call the market basket. When I do my shopping next month and see how the prices on the list compare to prior periods, I’ll begin to add the price of a gallon of gasoline as a seperate comparison item too. So I’ll give credit to Mr. Albero for that part of the idea; however, I’m really scared to see what inflation has done to the price of groceries when I do my shopping. I think it’ll be brutal.
Now for the shameless plug. Tomorrow morning I’ll again be on with Bill Reddish, doing the AM Salisbury program at 7:40 (WICO-AM 1320). Truth be told, I’m actually the spot starter for the slot as the originally scheduled person was a scratch. But I’ll do my best to make it interesting and I think I’m going to focus on local and state politics this time rather than the Congressional race. You know I have a lot to say, it’ll just be a matter of saying it well and keeping on point. Check it out and see how well I do.
Darn Michael, I have two links to his site…one under “bad”, the other under “ugly”. Does that give him two from my site? If so, I shall swiftly remove the second. I only link at all so people can reference his posts to mine. LOL