I like to look at the Stat Counter at the bottom of the screen, to see where my readers are coming from. Some of you I know, but the ones I don't are intriguing to me. As we know, Blogger is owned by Google, so the searches on the world's most popular search engine will show our little blogs as well as other research sites.After two posts about the Little League World Series, I had a reader come up as a result of searching "Little League fucking" which makes me think about my audience more than I'd like.
Others came about from "Little League obscenity" which is more reasonable. I've also had more than a few hits as a result of searching for local weather-caster Cecily Tynan, and probably one more today, if the angry "anonymous" post from something I wrote a long time ago is any indication.
Whenever I rant about Dubya, I get a search originating from Federal Triangle in good-old D.C. That makes me cringe a bit, but I figure I have the Constitution to lean on - for now.
In the relatively short time I've been doing this, nothing has sparked as much interest as the posts from the past 2 days about the Little League World Series, and the accompaning obscenity muttered by a kid in the heat of battle. People can get really worked-up over language. So much so, that it is difficult to find out the name of the kid who said it, but the word is easy to find. A comment artist who refers to himself as "anonymous" had a lot to say on the issue, most of it irrelevant, but most of it at least was spelled correctly.
But, ya gotta love those kids. Perhaps more than the random name of a porno actress, they have attracted lots of readers to this little disaster area of the Internet. Thanks, kids. The next round of snow cones is on me!
Say "fuck" again so I can break 6,000 page views!
Oh ... umm ... how about that kid in the photo at the top of the post. Do you think he knew what he was doing? He's probably from California. Was that gesture obscene? Maybe his manager should have smacked him, too? It's a shame ESPN's cameras didn't pick up what he was saying while he was making a phallic gesture to the opposition.
Where's "anonymous" when I need him?
4 comments:
poor kid, he is the victim of an ufortunate photo angle. :)
Ok, already. the date update has been posted.
I'm tired of the media putting kids under their lens the same way as paris hilton and the like!!
I'm tired of Paris Hilton, too.
Yeah, I did. It was very satisfying.
The AMS certification is a fugazi degree program designed to promote attractive newspeople so that they can "legitimize" the weather with a stupid seal next to their name. He couldn't deal with it.
In Philly, the term "meterorolgist" always precedes the person's name, yet "Anchor" or "Sports" does not precede the others. Plus, at one station, the weather girl gets TOP BILLING.
I hope he's reading this, too.
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