w0,000t!
This blog just reached 10,000 hits. Huzzah! Huzzah! That’s 20,000 eyeballs! I guess it’s time to break out the cake and SiteMeter counter.
For the record, the 10,000th hit came in at 1:22pm today via a link from an English teacher’s webpage at Xavier High School, right here in New York City. The teacher is a former graduate student of mine. So here’s a big shout out to Mr. Cambras and his 9th and 10th grade students who I see are studying Romeo & Juliet, Julius Caesar, and Macbeth. (…and some other good stuff, too.) Welcome to all.
If this blog teaches you nothing else, it’s that studying great works of literature will allow you to take the letters from passages in those great works of literature, mix them around, and form new pieces of writing that kind of relate back to the original passage. And if you do that, then eventually 10,000 people will come to see them.
December 20th, 2007 at 6:02 pm
Congratulations Bill! Quite an achievement in less than a year. But your blog has substance and if I have learned anything from the blogosphere is that if you have substance, content, and topics of interest, you will get visits.
As for Xavier HS visiting, I’d like to take minimal credit here, since I worked there last year and the year before that. I may have mentioned your blog in passing to one of the teachers, or department heads (as an example of something good on the ‘net). Who knows, maybe word of mouth still works. :)
Congrats once again!