It finally happened. Other bloggers have told of the day their hits spiked, due to a link from an a-list blogger or some other busy site. (Some bloggers resort to extortion to make this happen.)
Yesterday I checked my TypePad stats, and instead of a single-digit number of page views an hour there'd been 470. Not Ecshaton, but not bad either. Eventually the number hit almost 3000 for the day, at last count. 3000 people out there reading my post from a few days ago, a throwaway rant on the Downing Street memo.
They came from What Really Happened, a site that exposes wrongdoing in the Bush administration. Bless their hearts, they have their hands full. How'd they come across my piece of flotsam in a vast sea of discontent? Maybe whoever reads Dana Milbank's email sent them a link.
But to continue my navel gazing, it's a weird feeling knowing hundreds of people are reading you an hour. I wonder if J.K. Rowling feels like this in the hours after Harry Potter's release? Suddenly there's that pressure to produce...those angry folks from WRH want red meat, and all this vegan can come up with is some syrupy dog blogging.
I should at least kill off a major character.
Today, though, I'm off to London. If I see any characters there I'll dutifully demand their heads.
I'm also trying to get to the bottom of this new Downing Street Memo controversy raised by my fellow A-list bloggers at AmericaBlog: what is the meaning of "fixed" in Brit English? I've done some poking around, talked to some natives, and get this: I think it has something to do with dogs.
I guess that means you can expect more dog blogging.
