Why so many folks from other parts of the U.S. and the world read the Newark Tea Party and Newark Ohio Observations has always been a mystery to me.
I hoped Liza Martin of the Advocate staff might give me some answers when she was kind enough to write about this and other local web sites and blogs in a Sunday feature article.
There are only a few others by folks living nearby that are not business, institutional, religious, or educational - and only one other which, like the Tea Party, dwells on local problems. That would be nerkaggrivate.com.
The article offered no clue about who my readers are, or how they find the Tea Party, or why they keep coming back.
As Liza wrote, I am "self-taught" at webmastering, and that correctly implies that I don't know much about it, including how to get a grip on readership. I am measuring with three different tools, all of them providing vastly different numbers and various smokey clues about my readers. But I have no solid notion of what goes on once I put my stuff out in cyber space.
All I know is the Advocate article gave it an upward bump, for which I am grateful. I suppose in view of that I should be nice, but that's asking a lot.
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
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Hi, I wrote a comment here last night and also an answer to the post on the 1975 science. Neither one has shown up?? Let me know through the post if they have to be redone.
ReplyDeleteThey have to be redone.
ReplyDeleteDo not delay.
What post?
How else could I let you know?
Send me your e-mail address, just in case. I think I'm on to ya.
Alas, my e-address would identify me. I like the idea of being, so to speak, under cover.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I will take a user name, bluestocking, which is fairly accurate. While not a native of Ohio, I have been in Licking County since 1964 and remember when you worked for the Advocate, when Minnie Hite Moody wrote a column, when Denny Gilbert covered the police beat. My son runs a popular music blog and is sparring with the Christian bashing on the Huffington Post, so I thought I would have a comment target myself. Thanks for running this--I will go through and say things about all the posts that interest me.
"Bluestocking" is much to steamy, bedroomish, provocative, centerfoldish, and dishy.
ReplyDeleteHow am I to concentrate?
Choose another.
"Tornstocking" would be far better.
FYI--a bluestocking, or bas bleu, in French, means learned woman, usually in the literary sense. Thus, it fits me, as your ideas of the term do not. However, if you wish, I will use the term in French, as it was applied to Mme. de Sevigne and others of her sort.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking French at the Newark Tea Party is worse than speaking Mexican.
ReplyDeleteNo no no. This will never do. This is By-God-Amarrrica and we only speak Amarrrican here.
I think "holystocking" has many advantages over "bluestocking" or that other French thing. First, it is Amarrican. Second, it is not sexy. Third, some will interpret "holy" in Baptist sense of the word while others may take it as a vow of poverty pantyhosen - and Tea Party folks are down with poverty, even more than they are down with Baptists.
Come on, Nerk is not that bad. I've lived here for over forty years and have learned to relax about it. By the way, Baptist does not mean Southern Baptist.
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