Thursday, November 5, 2009
An experiment
Two days ago I posted to my fiction blog and have no bites yet. A few minutes ago I posted to my poetry blog for the first time in three months. I expect the latter to get more hits in a day than the former, though quite short, will get in a week. It's the way things seem to work on Blogit these...
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Restoration of Balance
I wish I could take credit for a partial leveling of the playing field in a category that had been hijacked by a few vociferous right wing conservatives. In truth I probably just pointed out a disturbing inequity that others had already began to notice. It was likely mere happenstance that an...
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Friday, September 11, 2009
Stacking the Deck
No ranking of categories this morning, though it was a tempting prospect. Being inactive on Blogit for five weeks has given me an opportunity to examine a phenom that has served to skew the results when ranking the popularity of various categories. Some bloggers habitually produce more than one blog...
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Thursday, August 6, 2009
Okay, it's a trend
Poetry is down a bit with less than 30 blogs in the Top 100 for seven straight days through the August 5 Blogit update, and with active blogs within the last seven days running about a handful down from the mid-sixties. Whether this is temporary or long term remains to be seen. As for the rest of...
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Thursday, July 30, 2009
One percenters
As often pointed out here, there is usually little noticeable change in the relative popularity of Blogit categories from day to day. This is one of the main reasons I quit trying to crank out rankings on a daily basis quite some time ago. The lack of apparent change tended to be boring to all but...
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