MoreWhat Matters: Blogosphere Influence
It’s not like we never published a post on party politics, ethics, government blunders or questionable behavior on the part of all things government or politics. But we’re just little people maintaining a blog on the vast and powerful internet. And we read many posts on blogs that essentially do the same thing, publish posts about events in the public sphere that are of concern or interest to that portion of the public responsible enough to care. That said….
At first it was viewed as nothing especially significant and it probably remains as such. But in light of further developments in Washington it is at least more interesting now than when first observed. While checking traffic logs for Blog @ MoreWhat.com (which are puny by internet standards) a few visitors stood out. The first couple of hits by the GSA, the DOJ, the Senate and a few other government entities were entertaining and a bit of a surprise. Upon a further review based solely on curiosity, the logs revealed the referral sites as search engines, no surprise, for terms such as Waxman, Doan and other specific references related to really current events which was a surprise.
What would be nice is if those who visit this humble blog, could check their logs and tell us how many have experienced a similar increased frequency in government searches of their blogs. So if you have some time to do this it would be appreciated. It also might well serve everyone blogging to share their views on this subject in general. As mentioned above this is no big surprise, but a group of bloggers discussing this could prove useful.
Stanford Matthews
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