The readership of this blog from the United States is increasing, and it is often exceeding views from Russia. Many have said that Russian views are targeting low-readership blogs like this one. They hope that the blog writers will click on the links which often are to sites that will corrupt the target site. You can often tell some of these when the link has a long string of characters after “.com” or whatever. This devious trick is called “reverse spam”.
I don’t know what has caused this increase. My complaints about Trump? But other articles get as many view or more. Is it the cards that I’ve left in a Perk Place in Duluth? Is it the readers of my former column in the Reader Weekly of Duluth, “Party of One”? Is it more frequent posts? Could be! Though as the name of this blog states, they are still irregular.
BTW, I would have called this blog “Party of One”, but somebody else had already taken it.
If you do correspond with me or see me, please let me know how often you read this blog and what you think.
Another country whose readership has increased is France. I only have three correspondents in France, and I’ve lost contact with two of them. To the one left, “Merci encore pour ‘Astérix’!” What am I writing that gets so much interest from France?
One surprise is that I get practically no readers from Canada. Canadian readership once was second to U.S. readership. And my wife has several relatives in Canada.
BTW, to them I say don’t watch TV, read the Globe and Mail. You’ll get more information per minute. This advice holds for anybody who has access to free and independent newspapers (printed or online).
