Thursday, February 12, 2009

How to forward articles of interest

Recently I was denied recognition as "media" for the purpose of receiving crime reports from the Woodstock Police Department for the new, related blog at www.WoodstockCrimeLog.info. One of the reasons given was small circulation and infrequent publication.

Well, duh... if I can't get the crime reports, how can I publish them?

The response based part of its reasoning on the statement that my blog had "2,000 hits in one year." Because I didn't have a counter on this blog, I actually did not know how many times it was viewed. Since that other blog was new, I assumed the sender was referring to the Woodstock Advocate, and on February 3 I installed a counter.

As of today, about 40 days after installing the counter, the counter reads over 10,000, or an average of about 250/day. If that pace remains for a year, that'll be 91,000 in a year - well above 2,000, I'd say.

It's easy to tell people about the Woodstock Advocate. You can just tell them to go to WoodstockAdvocate.com, or e-mail the URL as www.WoodstockAdvocate.com You don't need to include "blogspot" in the URL.

If you would like to forward a particular article to someone, just click on the small envelope at the end of the article. An email address form will pop up. Just fill it in and send the article. No record is kept of how you use that pop-up form. I will never see the address to which the article is forwarded or your own name or email address.

Thanks for reading. Thanks for telling others. Thanks for your comments. Keep 'em coming!

4 comments:

find the owners manual you fool said...

Maybe they realize that your "counter" is not that accurate. A good counter measures unique views. Yours adds a number every time the page is changed. Page one-hit. Page two-hit. Back to page one-hit. Not even close to accurate.

Gus said...

Thanks for sharing your opinion. The counter has never been held out as counting "unique" views. It is exactly accurate for what it counts. (And I do realize that "exactly" is redundant.)

find the owners manual you fool said...

So your 91,000 views/year are really, what-maybe 25,000?

Zane said...

This website seems to get a lot more viewers than that "Diametrical Woodstock Advocate". Gus has already managed to outlast and out view the competion in that respect. It's a shame too, certain circles were all about that website a couple of months ago.