{"id":370,"date":"2006-07-05T20:47:02","date_gmt":"2006-07-05T20:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/07\/05\/were-number-8312\/"},"modified":"2006-07-05T20:47:02","modified_gmt":"2006-07-05T20:47:02","slug":"were-number-8312","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/07\/05\/were-number-8312\/","title":{"rendered":"We’re Number 8,312!"},"content":{"rendered":"

As you’ve no doubt seen elsewhere on ScienceBlogs, Nature<\/cite> posted a little story about popular science blogs<\/a> that included a list of said blogs<\/a>, including a link to yours truly (tied with Deltoid<\/a> for 11th<\/sup> in their list by Technorati rank order.<\/p>\n

My ranking has actually climbed slightly since then (#8312 accoring to my most recent vanity search<\/a>), but I had noticed the quote ranking of #8,365 last week, and I have to say, I’m absolutely gobsmacked to be in the 99.98th<\/sup> percentile of blogs ranked by Technorati. It’s sufficiently surprising, in fact, that I need to resort to British slang. <\/p>\n

OK, granted, about 44 million of those 47 million blogs they track have about six posts and have been dormant since 2004, but still, that’s an intimidating looking number. Especially when I look at my blog and find dog pictures and inane World Cup commentary…<\/p>\n

Of course, I can put the whole thing in perspective by noting that I spent the weekend with a big mob of my close friends from college, most of whom probably aren’t even aware that I have<\/strong> a weblog. To quote David St. Hubbins, that’s probably too much fucking perspective, but it’s an all-or-nothing business…<\/p>\n

(The Nature<\/cite> list is hardly representative, as I know of at least two string theory obsessives who get more traffic than I do, but it’s cool that they mentioned me. I wonder if I can count that as a citation in my tenure materials?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As you’ve no doubt seen elsewhere on ScienceBlogs, Nature posted a little story about popular science blogs that included a list of said blogs, including a link to yours truly (tied with Deltoid for 11th in their list by Technorati rank order. My ranking has actually climbed slightly since then (#8312 accoring to my most… Continue reading We’re Number 8,312!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-silliness","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}