December 4, 2005
Amba gets a link from Pajamas Media.
Care to guess what that does to her Site Meter? Yeah, there it is, posing under the letters "osm.org." Amba checks out the Pajamas website for the first time and has the same reaction she had a while back when she took one look at a new store in her neighborhood, the one selling all the "choo-choo trains and monkeys and little boys and girls, all in that same bland, Scandinavian-Polish style."
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Numbers seldom lie.
The interesting thing here is really that you can infer PJM isn't drawing much traffic. They don't have a Site Meter, but Amba does. The traffic she got from the link is the kind of traffic you'd get from a link from a blog with less than 1000 visitors a day.
I just don't have the heart to be snarky at this point. A lot of hard feelings were drummed up over this. This sucks because 99% of your readers enjoy reading all of the players involved.
Interesting ...
Listen, I think Amba may really be on to something here.
Maybe she--or you?--or somebody should sponsor some kind of gimmick in which those blogs who do get linked to OSM in someway can voluntarily track their traffic and punch in the numbers. Obviously, it would be better if some sort of point of reference was given, but that's not really necessary, I don't think.
It would be EXTREMELY interesting to see how widespread her experience is , don't you think?
(Of course, for "multicellulars" like me, I suspect the number of hits she got would be very welcome, but that's not the point.)
Slightly OT:
And, pray tell, if you know--inquiring minds want to know--what is it about the blogging/the web/the internet scene that spawns such terms as "link slut" and "link whore"? I mean, why not "link pimping," for instance (or maybe I just haven't come across that one yet--should Google it)?
Is the fact that we're using terms that in other arenas mostly refer to females related to that whole "the-blogosphere-is-mostly male" thing???
(And, yes, I do know that link slut/link whore are used in an equal opportunity way--it's just the genesis of terminology that's interesting me.)
Um. Gee. In the time it took me to post comments here and a couple of other places, I apparently turned into a "worm". Just to correct the record.
Lou: What's your point? The notion that we shouldn't talk about Pajamas, a huge elephant in the middle of the room, is absurd. If you're afraid of them, take heart. The point of this post is that their linking power is totally inconsequential. Buck up, old man.
In the comments to my post, if I'm not mistaken, I think there's an allusion to bodily fluids.
Ann,
What's your point? The notion that we shouldn't talk about Pajamas, a huge elephant in the middle of the room, is absurd. If you're afraid of them, take heart.
I am surely not saying you shouldn't be talking about PJM, considering you have so far been proven 100% right about this venture. Nor am I afraid of talking about any of the involved parties. Like I said, up until recently I have enjoyed reading everyone. You, Roger, Charles, Glenn, the participants at LGF (who unfairly maligned you quite viciously), etc.
That was my point. I have enjoyed reading all of you, and now I feel like there are separate compartments. Ann is over here, and Roger is over here. This sucks, and I'll wager a hunk 'o cash that many agree with me.
I'm just a reader/hit/eyeball/stat and since I have no money involved with this it's probably best if I just shut my gob from now on and watch how it all plays out. But I'll still be reading all of you. :-)
That was my point. I have enjoyed reading all of you, and now I feel like there are separate compartments. Ann is over here, and Roger is over here. This sucks, and I'll wager a hunk 'o cash that many agree with me.
Very true. It undercuts what little there's left of the triumphant, the-future-is-now Wired rhetoric about the Internet being a universal uniter. Now it's all factional, your camp, their camp, "the other side of the blogosphere," old grudges, alliances, spite, etc. It's like an Italian government.
Well, at least Althouse raised the hackles of both LGF and Kos commenters, within a few weeks of each other. There has to be an award for that somewhere.
Mechanical: The nasty commenters of the left were at Eschaton, not Kos. I had a Kos link in the same period, but it was a serious engagement with the issues around the Alito nomination. The idiotic comments I complained about were at LGF and Eschaton.
As to Roger L. Simon: he compartmentalized himself for me, when he called me on the telephone last August to bully me after I did a short post saying I preferred Blogads to Pajamas. No one has ever made such a bad impression on me in such a short length of time. As a wrote in an email to someone back then, he sounded like a bad actor playing the part of a stereotype of a lawyer, and he made no attempt to disguise the fact that it was all about money. When I tried to talk about other values involved in blogging, he hung up on me.
i got a link from their front page on on their top stories a few days ago. i was surprised by how little traffic showed up. anyway, i know i got likes than 379 referrals, cuz that is the lowest # for my december referral ranking. i don't think i got more than 100, max. my site usually gets 3,000 uniques per day.
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