July 29th 2007
Just reached 1,000 visitors today since I moved my blog to WordPress.com on June 3rd. Doing a little basic math, that averages out to 125 visitors a week, about 18 visitors a day.
For me, that’s a lot of visitors in a short period of time. I started blogging about political stupidity on February 3rd 2007 at http://hellbroadcast.blogspot.com. Between February 3rd and June 3rd I had 402 visitors at HellBroadCast. Some more basic math: about 24 visitors a week, some 3.4 visitors a day.
I don’t know what’s changed. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not complaining about the growth in visitors. I’m ecstatic. But anyhow, my content has remained the same, the topic is the same, the writer has remained the same. The only things that have changed are the name, the domain, and the address.
I haven’t spent all week waiting for my blog stats to hit 1,000 visitors. Or just sitting at work. I did actually get around to finishing two posts on stupidity, which really is the theme here, isn’t it… Surprisingly, this week wasn’t on political or governmental issues. Not even on terrorism or George Bush. This week, I touched upon failings in education.
No, I’m not directly attacking the United States’ public school system, nor am I blasting the Department of Education. There are just too many factors which contribute to my first topic: 1 in 5 Americans believe the Sun revolves around the Earth and a few other idiocities.
20% of Americans allegedly believe this. Now it’s your turn to do the math. If there are some 300 million Americans, 20% is a whopping number of people…
We’re talking about failures in common sense here. For a quick rundown of contributing factors, let’s say Religion, Family, and Media.
I won’t launch off into greater discussion on the contributing factors. But I would want to hear your opinions on it! Read the post I wrote and drop some comments in my direction.
Moving on, my other post of the week, also related to school, was not on education per say, but on the learning environment that atleast one school in America has brought upon it’s kids: a middle school in Virginia has issued a “NO TOUCHING” policy at the school.
There’s too much to write here on the matter so have a read through the post and share your thoughts.
And here’s the link to the two posts of the week:
Stupidity Is All Around You
No Physical Contact In School? Huh?
And now for something else. Namely, Existential Questions.
At http://existentialquestions.wordpress.com, I’ve started a communal look into existential questions about the world we inhabit and the issues we face during our lives.
I invite all of you to participate in the discussions at the website and/or the Facebook group for the site.
Although only about a month or so old, many people have shared their opinions and thoughts on the issues we already have posted. Here’s a list of the issues we’re discussing right now:
(If any of the links don’t work right now, they will soon…)
You can see all the ongoing discussions and the polls from the links at the top panel of the website.
So go have a look, find out what it’s about, and share your thoughts, either by commenting on the topics below the posts or by sending us email with the contact form.
As a final thought, the extensive post I’m working on about the Transportation Security Administration is getting out of control… But I’ll remain strong and try to get it done. Everyday there are people searching for information on the TSA, and I want to give people what they want. Stay tuned!
July 22nd 2007
Another busy week… Technically, I should take time off work and have a summer vacation, seeing as it is summer. Instead, I’m working 6 days a week… (actually at work right now, somewhat bored, and so I’m blogging, reading news and otherwise wasting time on Facebook…)
Anyhow, let’s move on… I’m a little disappointed with myself, seeing as I’ve managed what, two posts in two weeks?
It’s ok though, I’ve got plenty of excuses for my laziness. (Actually, laziness is one of the excuses…)
Mainly though, it’s work. I have very little time to blog. Most of my free time, the little that’s left after spending most of my time with my girlfriend, is spent either researching for posts which are in the works (17 at last count…), or posting to my two other blogs: Hell On Earth and Existential Questions.
My original plan was to write a short wrapup of the week’s posts every sunday. Guess you can see the dilemma I face when I haven’t written anything that week…
Then it hit me… I’m too ambitious (just a little…). So here’s my solution: Editorial + WrapUp = WhatTheHell…? (renewed)
So let’s get to it, shall we? This week I’ll focus a bit on traffic.
Having followed the statistics concerning page referrers, I noticed that there are two main search terms and tags through which people end up on Hellipsis.
Firstly, sex. Well, kinda. The most popular search engine term has been “Zahra Amir Ebrahimi”. If you’ve never heard of her, she’s an Iranian actress who allegedly starred in a leaked homemade sex tape, and is now facing charges in Iran for breaking the country’s morality laws.
Now, I don’t have the sex tape. Nor do I have link anywhere here to it. Yet, everyday people find themselves on my site when looking for that sex tape. Why?
Because I happened to mention her name and the scandal in a related post which covered Iran’s response to pornography, in accordance to said morality laws.
[Iran To Execute Porn Stars, Distributors, Directors, etc...]
Another popular path which has lead people here is the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).
Not them directly, of course, but people searching for stuff on the TSA. I’ve noticed that either people just search for “tsa” , or they combine it with such terms as “uniform” , “funny” , and “stupid” , for example.
So, to answer the interest in the Transportation Security Administration, I’ve started work on a larger post of TSA follies, and other cockups… So stay tuned for that!
[Click here for my posts on the TSA so far]
So, where did you come from? Where did you hear about Hellipsis? Let me know by the way of comments!
July 15th 2007
Most people are striving for success. But, as the Head of the Chinese Food and Drug Administration found out, all means aren’t allowed. Pushing forward (or should we say surging?) to Iraq and the United States, apparently violence can be classified as sign of success. Then why is Iraq failing?
July 8th 2007
Yeah, nothing this week… My bad…
July 1st 2007
There’s a lot of hate being covered this week.
Birds don’t like Bush, TSA hates clowns, the EU has issues with fast cars, Iran wants to kill pornstars, while North Korea and mobile phones don’t mix. Oh, and China’s being having problems with variety.
Don’t worry, it’s not all about hate.
A republican wants more terrorist attacks, while Bush is at the frontlines every day, although the run for President 2008 is well under way. In the mean time, check out what the FBI had to say about grandpapa.
New Yorkers don’t really care about all this, as they’re too busy sipping absinthe.
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