Author: Greg

This comes via Michael Hanscom, and it’s an interesting view on the various levels of the “blogosphere.”

Extrapolating some work I did last year, only about 20,000 blogs (a mere 0.4% of all active blogs) have a sizeable audience (more than 10 regular visitors and more than 150 hits per average day), and readership in a typical day is only a little more than three million people, each spending an average of about 20 minutes flitting among 15 blog pages.

Using Shirky’s Power Law, and adding in RSS subscriptions to the hit count totals, that would break today’s blogosphere audience down roughly as follows:

	Total Hits/Day	Average Hits/Day per Blog	Minimum Hits/Day per Blog	Average Aggregate Reader Attention/Day per Blog
100 A-list bloggers	15 million	150,000	15,000	1700 hrs
2,000 B-list bloggers	5 million	2,500	1,000	62 hrs
18,000 C-list bloggers	9 million	500	150	13 hrs
80,000 up-and-coming bloggers	8 million	100	50	2.5 hrs
5 million remaining active bloggers	15 million	3	0	–

Judging by my stats, I’m flitting between low end B-List Blogging and high end C-List Blogging, which is kinda cool when I think about it, and following the redirection of the Paris Hilton address book pages, I was an A-List Blogger for a few days last week, but that doesn’t count for much on the grand scheme of things… And Simon Dodson brought up a good point in a MSN conversation today:

Returned – s: so when u on cnn ?
Gregor Smith: never
Gregor Smith: the closest i’ve been to being on cnn is being in the cnn center in atlanta :P
Returned – s: alot of my personal friends
Returned – s: ones i see IRL
Returned – s: really dig your blog
Returned – s: they mention it to me a few times just in general speech
Gregor Smith: cool
Returned – s: arrr //slaps
Gregor Smith: i’m still surprised anyone reads it :P it’s really not much different ot stuff you can find elsewhere
Returned – s: i feel the same way
Returned – s: but they come
Returned – s: & enjoy
Returned – s: neat huh !
Gregor Smith: true…
Gregor Smith: it’s the old “if you dont want people to read it then why write” kinda argument
Returned – s: my thoery is ” i did not ask you to read it ” if ya nahwahmean
Gregor Smith: maybe my dreams of being like kottke arent too far away :P
Returned – s: i sometimes wonder where blogging will lead to .. and its kinda mainstream now but blogs like ours .. semi pro are established and look legit ya knows!
Returned – s: you learn over time wat to write and wat not to write
Gregor Smith: yeah
Gregor Smith: thanks to this blogs.salon.com/0002007/categories/blogsBlogging/2005/01/04.html#a1004 i’ve deduced i’m a borderline b or c list blogger (dependding on the day)
Returned – s: neat

It’s all about what you know to write and what not to write…

Instead of doing a running commentry on the 77th Annual Academy Awards I’m just going to point out a few things…

Firstly, Renée Zellweger and Drew Barrymore are much better as blondes, seriously! I’m not even kidding…

Secondly, Adam Duritz of the Counting Crows (pictured right)… He looks like Kid from Kid n’ Play in Class Act… Don’t get me wrong, I like the Counting Crows, but how in god’s name did that guy ever get to screw Jennifer Aniston AND Courtney Cox in the same calendar year??? Answer me that and you’re a smarter man (or woman) than me…

Thirdly, Beyoncé… ENOUGH ALREADY! Is she the only singer available tonight or something?

I’ll leave it at that, it’s obvious Jamie Foxx is going to win Best Actor and The Aviator will win everything else… If not then I’ll be very surprised and it’s kinda sad when the funniest part of the night (thus far) was Pepsi’s “Spartacus” advert.

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Ever wonder what Snoop Dogg’s “Drop It Like It’s Hot” would sound like if it was mashed up with Huey Lewis & The News’ “The Power of Love”? Well wonder no more… Cause it would probably sound a little like this.

Now that’s rock n’ roll folks!

Since I can’t possibly beat Jason Kottke, I’ll join him in the great big digital begging bowl…

Yes, I’ll be your blog whore if you pay me enough*, so what you waiting for? Think how many kitty and doggy pictures I could post if I was a full time blogger, I’ll burn up the blogosphere when every day turns into “A Day In The Life” series, if only you’ll let me! Imagine the possibilites!

LET ME LIVE A DREAM!

You know you want to…

enough = $50 million

I’m not really serious btw, but any donations would be greatly appreciated and donated to a charitable cause of your choice

Last night Phil and me ventured along the 316 to Athens so we could sit in on a live recording of Blue Collar TV at The Classic Center and we finally fulfiled a 2 month long dream along the way…

Now, we found out about the series of tapings they were doing a few weeks ago and put our names down for all of them, but last night was the only one we could really get to, the show started around 7:30 but they advised you turn up around 90 minutes before hand as it’s a first come first served deal with tickets, so we turn up 2 hours early and the area surrounding the Classic Center is already pretty busy, so we get our tickets… Numbers 787 and 788 out of 800, apparently people had been waiting since 9am to get prime tickets, bah! So we were sitting way, way up in the nose bleed seats…

So we spent the night sitting up and peering through the lighting rig to get as good a view as possible for the next 3 hours… All in all it was a pretty funny show, and after seeing Larry The Cable Guy (and Jeff Foxworthy) back in October, and meeting Ron White in December, it was cool to finally complete the set by seeing Bill Engvall.

Then came the conclusion of a 2 month dream, of sorts… Following meeting Ron White in December at the local Wal-Mart (of all places) we had signed copies of both dvd’s and cd’s of Blue Collar Comedy Tour and Blue Collar Comedy Tour Rides Again, and how cool would it be if we could get all of them signed by the remaining three stars? Well, we kinda succeeded by getting Larry, Jeff and Bill to sign the dvd and cd of Blue Collar Comedy Tour Rides Again after the taping, and we would have gotten them all to sign the dvd of Blue Collar Comedy Tour as well but Bill left the signing bit after only a few minutes, which kinda sucked, so that’s only got Jeff’s, Larry’s and Ron’s signature, which is still pretty cool all the same…

So we finally left Athens at around 11:30 in the middle of a nice storm… Storm season has come early this year judging by the last few days. Anyways, here’s another (and better) obligatory of The Classic Center.