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For Unique Visits in a month with 6 days left
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Lots of Datawork
Will have lots later and over the weekend.
Zeleny Rumor–not really a rumor at all
Given I’m in sort of Wonkette mode and St. Louis is a sleepy city, a big paper reporter sighting was supposed to play on Wonkette’s sighting bit around DC. So anyone expecting something juicy about Zeleny is way out of luck unless by juicy, him having drinks at the Cat’s Meow last night with a common friend and I is juicy.
Sorry for any misunderstandly, but Jeff took the joke as strange that anyone would care–which is part of the joke about Saint Louis. And of course, any conversations over beer are off the record.
September Traffic
Over 23,000 Unique Visitors with the average visitor coming by about 4 times. Daily traffic is up around 2000 visits (not necessarily unique) every day. That’s pretty astounding for a web site that concentrates on state politics–only a few others have that much traffic in blog form such as Off the Kuff, Burnt Orange Report, and South Knox Bubba.
Snapshots are available to those who click on the counter on the left side column below the blogroll. Those numbers aren’t complete because they don’t capture all of the visits as the server does, but it shows the trend.
On top of that Blog Saint Louis is averaging over 300 visits a day.
So essentially, thanks!
Busy Day
But I did get some Keyes video–nothing mind blowing, but humorous. It won’t be up until tomorrow night. Regular posting tomorrow.
Five Easy Questions
For those interested in me and how the blog got started and continues, Eric Zorn has posted my responsed to Five Easy Questions along with some nice words about me. Thanks Eric.
From Chillinois
Blogger sucks. I wasn’t able to post all day Tuesday because Blogger sucks and won’t work. I want to write about Jesus and Keyes and Kitty Kelley. Perhaps God is punishing me. Or protecting me from myself.
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Heh. I remember that pain.
For those discovering the crappiness of Blogger, let me suggest two alternatives. Blogstudio was my second stop in the blogosphere and is generally pretty reliable. I had good luck with them.
Second, and one Eric Zorn has suggested is Bloghorn which is developed and run out of Saint Louis and is an excellent user friendly interface and hosting service.
Love Letter in Comments
I guess this is a site I won’t be visiting again…
Seriously, grow up dude. If you can’t stand the dirt, go comment on basketball or something. You sure as hell don’t belong talking about politics. No matter how much you know, you so obviously don’t have the stomache for it. That, or you’re so rich you WANT Bush to win.Don’t snivel and say you don’t want to win that way. This isn’t a game, winning is everything because losing leaves you with nothing and it leaves too many people unprotected. It’s disgusting that you would sacrifice the needs of so many just to give yourself a more sound sleep at night. That’s not the right thing, that’s the easy thing.
The Upcoming Week
Significant Site Updates–so if you have an Illinois centered blog not linked in the blogroll (check the extended blogroll too) be sure to drop me a note in comments or in e-mail. Or other links that you think should be included including funny or interested Illinois blogs or news sites (some new pages coming). Any state politics blogs I don’t link to are appreciated as well. I’m going to move some of the best to the front page.
Also, while Illinois politics will remain the primary focuse, I plan on dealing with Congressional elections more as well–meaning lots on Bean, Cegelis and Tari Renner. In fact, this Wednesday will be Bean Day! And yes there will be Cegelis and Renner days in the next two weeks. National races will be covered as well with some tie ins to othe sites.
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May Be Slow Tomorrow
My mother was missed by Charley by 15 miles and my father is pretty much on target for Frances so we’ll see about posting today. The stress is adding up.