Meaningless Milestone
Category: Navel Gazing...
Posted Saturday, March 24, 2007 at 08:08 PM [GMT-6]

This is the sort of thing that only a blogger can appreciate, but at 7:43:15 pm the Gazette had its 500,000th page view. According to SiteMeter, the huge industrial conglomerate responsible for tracking such trivialities, the visitor was from -- get this -- Englishtown, New Jersey. Not only that, but he/she/it (in case it was a 'bot) was running Konqueror 3.5 (a Mozilla-flavored browser) on Linux.

I wish I had some pithy insight to explain the significance of this milestone, but all that comes to mind is that this is further proof that -- in blogging anyway -- longevity can trump quality.

Nevertheless, I appreciate the patronage. Immensely, in fact.

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Apparently we don't have anything better to do (referring to comment in excerpt!

Posted by: Rach at March 25, 2007 01:47 AM

Cool!

Hey - maybe you could put up a list of "top 10 posts, traffic-wise" or something. That sounds like a very bloggerish thing to do...

Posted by: Brian at March 25, 2007 08:26 AM

Rach, a party girl like you, not having anything better to do?! Puh-leeze. ;-)

Brian, I don't know of any way to sort pages by their viewership. My webhost doesn't keep logs in perpetuity, and I don't have the programming chops to parse 'em like that anyway. We could probably accomplish essentially the same thing by listing all the references to baby squirrels.

Posted by: Eric at March 25, 2007 01:22 PM

Dude...that's awesome.

I'll never reach that number...well, not for content reasons, anyway...

Posted by: Janie at March 26, 2007 05:47 PM

Excuses, excuses...

Posted by: Brian at March 26, 2007 08:12 PM
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