Missed my own Anniversary
I started my old blog 10/13/2002. So, er, six years of this.
I mention this in light of Kate’s hitting the 10K post mark for which huge congratulations! I have no idea how many posts I’ve made, a quarter that number, maybe a third. But mine are longer which no doubt explains why her traffic is ten times mine.
Pace Alan , I think blogging has made a difference and not just on Free Speech. It has allowed people to read well outside their comfort zones and, in a funny sort of way, notwithstanding the trolls, lets people understand how the people they disagree with think. Which is, occasionally, the first step towards understanding if not agreement.
Update: Kateland has found a site which analyzes homepages according to whether it thinks the site is written by a man or a woman. Her site 85% chance written by a man. My homepage 89% by a man. SDA 73% by a man. Five Feet of Fury 80% by a man. Ezra 84% by a man. Dr. Dawg 61% by a man. Lying Jackal 64% by a man. Gen-X 71% by a man. Flea 75% by a man. No one but us men on the net…Actually I tried a few really girly sites and they all came up “man”.
Update: But, apparently, started a meme. Manly (95%) Jules Crittenden does the US blogosphere on Nov 21 and is noticed by noted Australian metrosexual (72% female) Timmy Blair on the 23rd who points at fellow Aussie Andrew Bolt scoring a testosterone challenged 51% male.
My conclusion: Canadian women are rather more manly than Aussie men….but we knew that already. And they’re way prettier.
November 19th, 2008 at 10:14 am
Happy Birth day!
November 19th, 2008 at 10:24 am
How the flip did I turn up 56% man?! And does this mean I should be talking about penises more? Or vaginas? Or maybe it’s that I don’t use their more rugged colloquial equivalents, like … No, that would be crude.
‘Stupid site anyway.
November 19th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
Congratulations!
I think we have to be careful comparing group blogs and individuals like yours and mine. It would be easy for me to get to from the current 6,000 ish for gen x 40 and the beer blog if I opened the doors to make it more like a forum. Not that it is a bad thing what SDA has achieved – it is just a different thing. Not a real blog, to paraphrase Parizeau. ;-)
PS - the hell Flea is 4% more manly than me. What a load of crap.
November 20th, 2008 at 6:36 am
I was 92% Man – pansies!