The Campaign for 100,000 Hits
Okay, I admit this is childish, but sometimes I just have to have some fun in my life.
I don’t know how this happened. I’m sure it has something to do with the number of times the Clarkbot has hit me (look: here it comes again), but I’ve been at number 15 in the Harvard rankings for a long time now and as of Tuesday, February 3, at approximately 9:30 pm, I need 538 hits to knock me to 100,000 hits. I joked with some bloggers about it on Sunday–then I needed about five thousand hits to get over 100,000. I don’t know if they’re doing something to me or what, but whatever is happening is getting me much closer to 100,000. Yes, when my car’s close to rolling over significant miles, I go on roadtrips (She’s at about 264,160 now. Yes, it’s the original engine. She’s a 1989.) My hourly hits are high today, but my referer log shows no unusual activity. LIS News pointed to me a few days ago, which has brought me a lot of traffic, but nothing record breaking.
I’d like this to be an international campaign (why stop at 50 states and I don’t want to ignore our German and Swiss friends) and I don’t plan to drop out. What’s totally awesome about this campaign, too, is that I’m not asking you for money as part of it and I don’t have annoying television commercials you’ll see at every commercial break. (Did I mention I can do my own blogging, too?)
February 4th, 2004 at 8:37 am
Congratulations! You made it over the hump with a rediculous 2,000 hit hour this morning! Wow! You obviously have some powerful and important friends in the ‘Sphere
February 4th, 2004 at 10:00 am
Holy cow! As of 9:50 am this morning: I’ve had 838 hits since 12 am and my current hit count is 100,346, according to the rankings page. I almost feel sad that I didn’t get to honk my horn when it hit 100,000 ’cause I wasn’t watching.
This is weird: the rankings on that page must use a method different from the hourly hits on the blog to compile counts. According to my hourly hits, my blog received 1468 hits between 8 and 9 am. Probably because some really popular blogger pointed to me and my campaign for 100,000 hits. Maybe it’s because hits picks up all sorts of things loaded on the blog, like images and such, instead of counting straight page reads. (But my blog isn’t image heavy, so the discrepancy shouldn’t be that large.) There’s nothing out of the ordinary in my referer log. The Clarkbot hasn’t even hit me today. Hhhmmm …