The power of blogging (from: Politics in the Zeros)
http://www.polizeros.com/2005/03/05.html#a5132
My friend John at Crooks and Liars demonstrates the power bloggers can have, forcing an on-air apology from Robert Novak. Good stuff, indeed.
Crooks and Liars gets Robert Novak to issue an “on-the-air” apology.
I helped him start the blog, and still help a bit on technical blog issues, like rss and podcasting. He’s taken the blog from out of nowhere, and with his huge innovation of posting video from newscasts as well as excellent commentary, Crooks and Liars is now usually in the top five weblogs for daily traffic as tracked by Radio UserLand, the blog software we both use.
Radio UserLand reports weblog traffic for sites that, brace yourself for geek talk, are in the Radio cloud and, I think, ping weblogs.com. This isn’t all of the hits, but it’s an important, mostly blog-related subset of total hits. It lists both Daily hits and All-time hits. My Daily hits tracked here generally show 500-700 a day, however my WebTrends Log Analyzer, which runs off the log files on my website and can be presumed to be far more accurate, show 2,000 unique visitors a day, which is why I know the Radio number is just a subset.
Crooks and Liars is now always in the top 5 Daily hits, and is #12 all time for Radio blogs, with this blog being #49.
Way to go, John! He happily and enthusiastically covers all the talk shows (something that would make me crazy doing, so I don’t!) and is now forcing them to get honest!
PS I’m amazed that PoliZeros is getting 2,000 people a day. I’d originally figured my politics would be too radical for that, but I guess not. Thanks for coming!