September 23, 2003
Playing in Traffic
Way back on Saturday, I dispatched a rather harmless-looking e-mail to His Imperial Snappingturtleness, Emperor Misha I, of The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler. I had spotted an interesting article in the Medina Journal-Register (which is the most local newspaper that money can usually cause delivery of), and it went a little something like this:
"Attempt to simplify citizenship oath thwarted by complaints"
My purpose today isn't to seriously analyse the proposed changes, but anyone who wishes to do so can find the current oath of citizenship on Mrs. du Toit's site. The short version is that I agree with some of the complaints. The current oath makes it clear that you swear to uphold the Constitution no matter what, and that's the way it should be.
As a naturalized citizen himself, it seemed logical that Misha would be interested in any proposed changes-- especially ones which watered down verbiage with regard to the Constitution. While I was correct about that, it seems that he was not only already aware of the changes, but also informed me that the proposal had been defeated. Well, good.
My e-mail had not been informative in the way I had originally intended. What it did do, though, was bring my humble blog to his imperial attention. This resulted in the first plug posting that I have received from a fellow blogger, but the associated increase in site traffic didn't hit until the next day. It seems that Saturdays have exceedingly low blog traffic.
The 21st featured a record 207 hits-- more than twice that of any previous day this month. The statistics for today are so low because the stats page was automatically generated at 6:25 AM. As of that time, I had received a total of 76 referrals from the Rottweiler in the four days since this began-- more than twice as many as the number two referrer for the entire month (which is Google).
In the face of all of this exposure for my site, I had just been saying "Yay for me!" and waving a little pennant. Then John from Opinionination suggested that I ought to post again soon if I wanted my new readers to keep visiting. Oh. Right. Good idea! Glad someone thought of it.
Posted by Mitch at September 23, 2003 02:31 PMYou can find this entry in: Blog Matters