Well its always a joy here in mudville to correct Warren Kinsella's jaundiced view of the blogosphere, which is always highly coloured by his own blog prescence and his belief that he plays a more important role than he does.
Warren Kinsella, an aide to former Liberal prime minister Jean Chretien, says his blog gets as many as 100,000 hits a day. He has traced some of the heaviest traffic to Prime Minister Paul Martin's most trusted advisors and says his sources of information include former and current cabinet ministers, party leaders and rank-and-file members.
Election war rooms consider impact of blogs
100,000 hits a day?! Methinks Warren doth exaggerate his popularity a wee bit. Oh by at least five zeros. (see comments)
On December 8 after this article came out on CP, he posted it on his blog, he writes his latest backhanded defence of the importance of blogs in this election. He says that so far the blogs have not found a scandal of equal importance as American blogs did in the 04 election.
"In this bizarre two-part election, no big political story has been unearthed by Canadian bloggers - at least not in the way the American blogs broke the Trent Lott or Dan Rather stories. But it's coming."
Well gee what would he call this? The undue influence of American right wing lobby groups with the Conservatives is a major scandal,that has not been covered in the MSM as well as it has in the blogosphere. And I would call that a scandal uncovered by the blogs. Just not by Warrens blog. Hmm do I detect a bit of jealousy in his comment?
For an updated page on this Scandal go here.
100,000 hits a day?! Methinks Warren doth exaggerate his popularity a wee bit. Oh by at least six zeros.
ReplyDeleteUm, there are only 5 zeroes in 100,000
Ypour right but wouldn't six mean he only gets 100 hits a day?
ReplyDeleteBragging or posting about one's site traffic is arrogant and very poor form.
ReplyDeleteAh so nice to have you with us Warren, your blogetiguette is so refreshing. Anyways if the American Right Wing involvement with the Conservatives this election isn't news well I guess its just cause you didn't blog about it first Zerbia did and got paid for it....sounds like you're whining for being scooped.
ReplyDeleteGee WK I looked and I looked and I couldn't find any reader stats on your Musings page. Must be because I am a moron. Or else you are a liar, and well that couldn't be possible. However a tip I use a little indicator on my page called site meter you might try it.
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