An accidental discovery … about YOU - 9 March 2011 |
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As any good scientist will tell you, the most interesting things are often discovered completely by accident. Like LSD, Teflon, high-temperature superconductivity and Pluto’s moon Charon.
I also discovered something by accident yesterday, but I’m not quite sure what it is yet. Here’s what happened.
It all began when I posted this, a brief note about a forthcoming Christian Institute meeting. Unfortunately, and for reasons that I can’t fathom, the last bit of the post was omitted, and the post therefore ended with the single word “alas,” rather than the complete sentence it now contains. I’ve still no idea how it happened; maybe Wordpress went crazy or something.
Anyway, as a friend was kind enough to point out by email, this might have looked like I was saying something less than complimentary about the Christian Institute. Since nothing could have been further from my mind, I thought it was worth pointing out the mistake here.
Here’s when things started getting interesting. A few hours later, I happened to get a report of the number of hits this site was receiving. The figures had gone through the roof. And those two posts had each received something like five or ten times as many hits I’d normally expect for what were, at face value, fairly brief and inconsequential bits of information.
So I think I’ve discovered something about blogging (like, “Hit preview first, not publish”).
But I think I may have (accidentally) learned something about some, at least, of the readers of this blog. That’s right, folks – some of y’all. Probably not the regular readers, since these couldn’t account for the blip in the stats; more like the occasionals who all came flocking at once to see… what?
Like I said, I’m not quite sure what the lesson is yet. But I’m sure there’s one here somewhere.
So, now I’m wondering how many hits this post is gonna get. C’mon, let’s go viral.
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Posted by Steve Jeffery · Topics: Minister's Blog