Tomorrow being April 15th, or as it’s known in the U.S., “National Render Unto Caesar Day,” we’re a bit busy right now. We’ll return to normal operations possibly tomorrow, but more likely Wednesday.
In the meantime, I have a few comments about the results of last week’s Cat Week. To put it plainly, they were disappointing. Of the seven cat-related stories we resurfaced last week, only two, “A Can of Piskies” and “This Is (Not) My Beautiful Cat,” drew more than 50 readers.
The most-read story on the site in both the last week and the past year remains “The Pros and Cons of Time Travel,” by James Blakey, and while I’m not complaining that it’s drawn nearly 3,000 unique readers, there is something strange about that number. The story was first published in February of 2024, and for the first six months it was on the site it drew average numbers. Then, in September of 2024, it rocketed up to the top of the charts and has been there ever since. Why? remains a mystery. It’s a great story, yes, but are there that many new readers who are coming in to this site every week and reading that story, and only that story? Or is something more sinister at work? It’s a statistical anomaly, is what it is, and statistical anomalies draw my attention, and not in a positive way.
But speaking of statistical anomalies and drawing unwanted attention, I need to get back to work on our tax filing. I’ll be back here either tomorrow or Wednesday, and so in the meantime, to cheer you up, here’s an old Beatles song for your listening pleasure.
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2 comments:
Maybe it's the check-in point for time travelers. They are double-checking the cons.
My guess is that "The Pros and Cons of Time Travel" picked up in September 2024 because James Blakey had a book published in September 2024. It seemed to do well, too. Maybe readers wanted to check out his other stuff, or maybe he leveraged that book to garner interest in his short stories. I planned to do something similar next year when my novel is published.
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