I don't know if I'm annoyed or flattered and this is probably just fascinating to the blogger, sitting here in the chilly early morning dark. Fair or not, the Internet works like this: the more hits on a particular image, website, blog or link, the higher it gets in the Google search hierarchy. Which causes even more people to click on "it." Just like high school, being popular makes you even more popular. And who looks beyond that first page of search results, anyway? This explains the wild popularity of sites like Wiki. We are lazy.
Anyway, there are geniuses working at Google but they don't spend time trying to decide which picture of a pretzel should come up first in a search. The Internet searchers "vote," so to speak, and this picture, which I'm ashamed to admit isn't even mine, rules the Pretzel Internet at this particular moment in time. Sorry, Nova and Maya.
Writing is a lonely hobby. Even after a thousand posts, it still feels risky it click the "publish" button. We shouldn't care...but we wonder who's out there and how do they find us? This is why bloggers treasure their little groups of followers. I use a free App called Statcounter that gives an idea of who connects to the blog. Their data is more perplexing than enlightening, but on an ordinary day, Feathers and Flowers gets about 40 page views.
John says he doesn't believe in Statcounter, because it's irrelevant who reads the blog and egotistical to care.
Well, he may be right-- but I kind of like knowing when April in Oregon gets to work and turns on her computer. When my dad in Colorado has his cup of coffee and sits down to read the blog. When John gets around to email at work. When Amanda and Tom are up late with Maya. Your names will never show, but I know who is looking in Cincinnati, Powell, Puerto Vallarta, Cheney, Mansfield, Seattle, Bothell and Missoula. I love you all.
This is a day of Feathers and Flowers, as seen from the mysterious Satcounter:
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