Yes, the numbers are meaningless and misleading, but I have to admit it was very cool to check the Weblogs at Harvard Law Top Sites page last night and find my All Time page hits to have pushed over the 100,000 mark. Small potatoes (and mini-pixels) compared to the Big Names in weblogging, but not bad for an unknown, prematurely-retired lawyer who started doing this six months ago and basically complains (at great length) about the legal profession. Cool. Neat. Meaningless. And a long way before I get another digit.
P.S. Speaking of web page hits, A Web Undone 2 pointed yesterday to a very interesting article by Clay Shirkey on Power Laws, Weblogs and Inequality.
p.p.s. (Sept. 10, 2005): For several months now, I’ve been using two (free) services that count “unique visitors.” It appears that actual visitors are about 50% of my “page loads,” and tend to be 6 to 10 percent of “hits” measured by my webserver.
b&g thanks
To SoCalLawBlog, Walter at Overlawyered.com, and Bill Day of A Web Undone 2 for welcoming us back to the weblog world. .