Ace I figured you could use the money. It's like the teachers who help their students cheat on tests.

Ace I figured you could use the money. It's like the teachers who help their students cheat on tests.

See? double posting is part of it.

I've only been using the sitemeter since the weekend. First couple days, about 45-50 hits, today, around 380. I just assumed it was all of that Ace-a-lanche traffic.

I think folks aren't getting the info they need from the MSM, and have turned to the internet instead. I'm getting a lot of traffic from search engines with folks trying to find out more about Kanye West, Ray Nagin, Louisiana Prison evacuations, and other Katrina-related stuff.

Kanye West, Ray Nagin, Louisiana Prison evacuations, and other Katrina-related stuff.

So if I did a story using all of those words? hmm.

Plus there's bunches of us that no longer bother to rely on the old leftist MSM sources. Big story = Big checking on the New Media.

I can see it now:

Louisiana Prison Evacuations proceed smoothly thanks to Kayne West and Ray Nagin.

That'll boost the ol' traffic count.

DBS, CY and Ray,

Mention Laurie Dhue, Juliet Huddy and Kirin Chetry and you're set.

I'd like to believe this is just the blogosphere expanding, but it's a weird thing to just happen all of a sudden one day.

True, there's a lot of news lately, but there's been a lot of Katrina news for a week... why all of a sudden does traffic spike today?

I question the timing.

I turned my TV off after Rehnquist passed away-I knew that I would have an aneurism or shoot (a la Elvis). I have stayed on the computer more to get news and make donations.

I even got mad at FOX-

I wonder if ratings will reflect this....

Emeril LeGasse will be my anchor man from now on.

My traffic spiked as well.

A lot of hits from technorati. And a lot of jerkoff Stones fans searching for the lyrics to "Sweet Neo Con," which I wrote about weeks ago.

The amount of nastygrams I've gotten for that one post is amazing.

Nastygrams are a good thing - inflamed moonbats get vocal. When moonbats get vocal, they lose elections.

A positive development in NOLA, we've snagged one of the scumbags shooting at relief copters:SNIPER ARRESTED

Apparently he didn't resist enough and had to be arrested rather than canceled.

Nastygrams are a good thing

Yeah, I love hate mail. I've been getting it for my writing since college, when I was the only conservative columnist in a paper full of liberals on a liberal campus.

My favorite email was from a Stones fan irate that I didn't like their music or bow down before the mighty Jagger. His opening line?

"You are such an asshole."

His piercing argument?

"The Rolling Stones are the greatest rock and roll band in the world."

Heh. Laugh out loud funny.

Stones = posers
Beatles = poofy posers (Harrison was OK though)

Anyone with a few nurons firing knows the Sex Pistols were the greatest rock and roll band ever. Its been definitively proven - because I said so.

C'mon,

Just because Mick wrote some goofy lyrics on the worst song on thier new album is no exuse for slagging the Stones.

I saw them live a week ago, and they were excellent. And BTW, they didn't play "Sweet NeoCon". Apparently KR is no fan of the song.

Well, I'd love to be able to comment, because my traffic is usually pretty stable in the incredibly low numbers, but greyhawk over at Mudville mentioned one of my posts the other day and I've been spiking ever since, so I can't tell if it's a change at SiteMeter, or if it's traffic from an A-list blogger.

Shameless begging follows: Avert your eyes.
Speaking of A-list bloggers.....how do I get AoSHQ to link to me in a post? :-)

They're not the "greatest band in the world," but at least the Stones pre-dated the '90s era of whine-rock.

I'm getting tons of hits for the Wolf Blitzer 'they are so poor and so black' comments and also for people searching for info on that guy Russell Honore who is running the show down there. But, yes, a very welcome spike.

Server traffic is normal, so it might just be a Sitemeter blip.

My first thought was "The Astrodome is now wired. Probably other evacuation centers also. That's at least 100,000 potential surfers looking for their friends, neighbors and families and answers to their questions about what happened to my home? and what will happen to me now?.

Umm..people returning to work after a long weekend and checking the web for the first time in three days?

Too obvious, that's exactly what "they" want you to think.

Whittleanche. He posts, and the moonbats go bugshit taking down the names of all the filthy right-wing sycophant backslappers.

Apparently, we'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.

My site had a big day as well. Looking at my referrals, I saw that I got a TON of traffic from a 3 day old track back I did to WILLisms.com. Go figure.

Also, my google and yahoo hits are out of this world. Mainly hurricane related searches.

It was a very strange day indeed. Maybe I should post crap more often! :-)

Here is my graph showing yesterday

Even my crappy stats were up 20% yesterday...

Something is afoot because that just can't happen...

I posted the link to Ace in my crappy LJ blog

http://www.livejournal.com/users/azrael556

bu that would get you two hits max since no one really reads it.

Now I have a question, can someone give me a decent definition of a neo-con and tell me why the hell someone who didn't know me would call me one? Oil-paid Halliburton mercenary I could figure, but why am I a neo-con?

Just because Mick wrote some goofy lyrics on the worst song on thier new album is no exuse for slagging the Stones.

Sorry. Just not a big fan. And I was giving them grief more for being senior citizens trying to relive their wild youth than for 'Sweet Neo Con.'

I like some of their stuff, but most of it just doesn't appeal.

Dammit, and here I thought I was just having a real good day on Monday. But yeah, I noticed it too.

Of course, someone found Garfield Ridge after searching yesterday for "pooh, number two, feces" on some Japanese search engine, so maybe I'm now big in Japan, like a Yokohama Hasselhoff or something.

Of course, it could also be inflation? F'ing Greenspan.

Anyway, as nice as the traffic spike is, it's meaningless if *everyone* went up at the same time. Ain't that America, nobody can ever get an "F" anymore, we all get gold stars and pshrinks asking about our feelings.

Cheers,
Dave at Garfield Ridge

Uhh, I meant Tuesday. Damn three-day weekends, eff up my calendar for the whole week. . .

No mystery. We're all desperate for the info and perspective we're not getting from the MSM. ABC promised to investigate responsibility for the 'cane problems at all levels last nite and I watched, just wondering what they'd do. Gag, what was I thinking? In the report I saw, "all levels" apparently means find fault w/ FEMA and Bush. No mention of NOLA/LA evac plans, delayed requests by the locals, etc. Time is better spent on the blogs.

SGT Dan:

For a detailed explanation of what a neocon is, see these articles by Jonah Goldberg:

Part one

Part two

Part three

Kids are in school, mom's got some time on her hands. Her bloggy, Ace lovin' hands.

Probably something that Rove is cooking up using your blog as cover. Be careful out there.

I linked you on myspace, and word started getting around.

Heh.

Speaking of the revolution, eager planners thereof are doing their thing outside my Berkeley building.

http://kindergentlermachinegunhand.blogspot.com/2005/09/mostly-say-hooray-for-our-side.html

Thanks, Matt. I still don't think I'm one.

No spike here. But I wasn't talking about Kayne West, Ray Nagin, Louisiana Prison evacuations, or other Katrina-related stuff.

Check out this spike.

Thanks again Ace.

I just added the meter Saturday.

dbs