Ivan is one of our favorite Canadians, known for his wry wit. He is also a published author. You can find him here.
Congrats, Ivan!
Aug 062010
Aug 022010
Our fifth full month since we moved from Blogger was excellent. While we did not soar, as we did in June because of one article that went viral, we continued our previous pattern of steady growth.
Here are our basic stats:
Note that taking June out, we have a curve with an increasing slope, a pattern of accelerating growth.
Here is our most recent Clustrmap.
Our durations are up a bit:
Number of visits: 17059 – Average: 240 s
Number of visits
Percent
0s-30s
13762
80.6 %
30s-2mn
702
4.1 %
2mn-5mn
593
3.4 %
5mn-15mn
739
4.3 %
15mn-30mn
374
2.1 %
30mn-1h
481
2.8 %
1h+
408
2.3 %
That’s expected, with fewer hit and run visits.
Search engine responses still good.
12 different referring search engines
Pages
Percent
Hits
Percent
Stumbleupon (Social Bookmark)
2158
75 %
2875
74.7 %
641
22.2 %
889
23.1 %
Yahoo!
34
1.1 %
34
0.8 %
Windows Live
11
0.3 %
16
0.4 %
Unknown search engines
8
0.2 %
8
0.2 %
AOL
8
0.2 %
8
0.2 %
Bing
6
0.2 %
6
0.1 %
Google (Images)
4
0.1 %
4
0.1 %
Dogpile
2
0 %
2
0 %
Ask
1
0 %
1
0 %
ix quick
1
0 %
1
0 %
Yandex
1
0 %
1
0 %
Our top 15 referrers (blogs) are:
http://www.timsscaredstiff.com/
http://carolinaparrothead.blogspot.com/
http://jackjodell.blogspot.com/
http://whohijackedourcountry.blogspot.com/
http://annette-justmylittlepieceoftheworld.blogspot.com/
http://parsleyspics.blogspot.com/
http://infidel753.blogspot.com/
http://themanwhowalksalonewalksfaster.blogspot.com/
http://www.jimhightower.com/node/7208
http://disaffectedanditfeelssogood.blogspot.com/
http://thebeekeepersapprentice.com/
http://oakcreekforum.blogspot.com/
http://reconstitution.us/rcnew/
http://truthshallrule.blogspot.com/
http://theleftinme.blogspot.com/
While Reddit is not a blog, I included an extra link for them as they are our overall top referrer. There are two more extra links because the last three blogs are tied at seven referrals each. Enjoy the linkey-love
One of the best ways you can publicize Politics Plus is to use the share button at the bottom of each post to list our articles on the the sites where you belong.
Technorati increased our Technorati Authority from 141 to 494. That means we have 494 links in the last six months from blogs that are registered with and recognized by Technorati. Thus we are officially a High Authority blog and are very high on the B-list. we need six more to reach 500 and the A-list. If we make it, we’ll be in the same category as giants like Daily Kos and Huffington Post. Since so many blogs have never registered with them, and since it takes up to a year after that to be recognized, we have more blog links than that. But keep using our material. The motto here is Thou shalt steal. Even if you want to embed an occasional whole article, that’s OK. I just ask that you include a link to the original here. It’s not an ego thing. The more recognition we get, the more effect we can have toward ending the right-wing insanity.
We have 45,301 links on other websites, up from 26,564 last month.
We have 1,235 posts and 8,870 comments, as of midnight 8/1.
If you are tired of our funky avatars and would like your own avatar, go to Gravatar. Sign up using the email address you use to post comments here and upload the image you want to use. Whenever you comment under that email address here or on any WordPress blog (several others too), that will be your avatar.
I’m very happy with our progress, and thank you for it. This success belongs to all of us.
Aug 012010
Here are the results of the Obama Sack poll:
And here are your comments:
From TomCat on July 29, 2010 at 4:35 am.
My ‘Other’ is Salazar.
From Gwendolyn H. Barry on July 26, 2010 at 11:18 am.
I’ll go with ALL …
From SoINeedAName on July 25, 2010 at 5:26 pm.
Now is NOT the time to be sacking anyone.
From Otis on July 20, 2010 at 8:39 pm.
I said Geithner and Summers. Geithner needs no explaining with this crowd, we all know. Summers is a sexist ass and Greenspan’s butt buddy.
Emmanuel is a pain, but harmless, really. He won’t be around for a second term, no matter what.
Bernanke, I believe, is really trying to what is best for the economy as a whole. He has made mistakes, but I am not willing to push him under the bus when too many things were far beyond his control, ever. And this is truly the worst thing to happen to the economy in almost 90 years. The next time this happens (and it will), the ‘best person for the job’ at the time will screw it up, too. I promise. Intentions and alignment are irrelevant.
I know Gates is a Bush refugee, but I think that he has been entirely reasonable, and even disagreed, publicly, several times with Bush with logical and well thought out arguments. I was actually surprised he still had a job when Obama was sworn in!
From TerraByte in reply to Otis on July 31, 2010 at 8:49 am.
I’m with you. Summers has got to go. We’ll see how Tim reacts to Warren’s eventual appointment. Emmanuel needs to be shifted to some isolated outpost where he’ll be harmless, like Karen Hughes was. I like the guy at energy but they probably need a more outspoken salesman for energy independence.
From Lisa G. on July 19, 2010 at 11:43 am.
I said Bernanke, Emmanuel, Geithner and Summers because they are all useless and making the problems worse instead of better.
I voted for Bernanke, Geithner, Summers and Salazar. The first three share the bankster pedigree and mindset. Bernanke seems the least offensive, but as Chairman of NY Fed, he conspired to keep critical information secret so that his his Goldman Sachs buddies would get 100% taxpayer money on their AIG losses. I included Salazar, because he failed to clean up the MMS before the disaster happened, and because he has a big oil mindset when we need a green energy mindset. Gates is following orders, as a defense type needs to do, but I will change that view unless he starts to move more quickly on ending DADT. Emmanuel will not stay beyond the midterms.
What say you?
Choose your least favorite DINO in the new poll.
Jul 192010
Cellophane, aka Marva Dasef, is a solid progressive and fellow Oregonian. She is also a published author. I have personally purchased and read her work and found it enchanting. You can find her here.
Congrats, Marva!
PS – Lisa missed it by one again… for the fourth time.
Jul 182010
Here are the results of the November Election Poll:
And here are your comments:
From Annette on July 11, 2010 at 2:19 pm.
I think it will be small gains in certain areas… I really don’t believe the rethugs will get control of anything.
From rjs on July 6, 2010 at 5:48 am.
saw this when i was here yesterday…
The Intrade odds for the Democrats to maintain control of the House of Representatives after the November elections have been trading below 50% for the last week, and the odds have fallen from 62% on May 21 to 46% today.
so you can put your money on it if you want:
http://www.intrade.com/jsp/intrade/common/c_cd.jsp?conDetailID639645z1278352526638
From Infidel753 on July 2, 2010 at 3:04 pm.
The party in power always always loses some seats, but teabaggers and radicals have saddled the Republicans with nutjob or extremist candidates in Kentucky, Nevada, Florida, and eslewhere. I don’t think the losses will be large.
From Grung_e_Gene on July 2, 2010 at 1:02 pm.
I went with the small losses because there are districts out there who consider Virgina Foxx, Steve King and Michele Bachmann to be sane
From Otis on July 1, 2010 at 6:54 am.
Not a clue. There is no, even semi-reasonable/reliable means of judging what the electorate is thinking. The primaries are party specific, so that doesn’t mean much. The news is crap, so that means even less.
From Lisa G. on June 30, 2010 at 7:38 pm.
I said big gains only because I think people are realizing how obstructive the Repubs are with their threats of filibustering practically everything. And killing the unemployment extension I think is really going to hurt them.
Small losses was the big winner with big losses a distant second. I voted small losses. By rights, it should be total victory, or at least big gains, because this Democratic Congress, in the face of unprecedented Republican obstruction, has done more for the American people than any Congress since the LBJ administration. Sadly most American voters are so apathetic that they do not take the time to learn the issues and party track records, and the media present GOP lies as fact.
We have a new poll. Note that it is multiple choice.
Jul 092010
I apologize that do to the extreme heat here, I have been unable to do the research needed to post today. Even at 4:15 AM, the temperature in my apartment is still 94°, and I am heat exhausted. Today will not be quite as hot, si I hope to be back to normal tomorrow.
Jul 022010
Leslie is a high integrity political blogger, whose site is worth the visit. You can find her here.
Congrats, Leslie!
PS. Lisa missed it by one for the third time.
Jul 012010
Normally, I do not make an internal poll the lead item, but today, there are special circumstances.
Here are the results of the social harm poll.
And here are your comments.
Showing comments 1–1 of 1.
From Otis on June 19, 2010 at 8:26 am.
Neither ‘harm’ our society. The lack of education does. The right wing extremism that has been occurring as of late is nothing more that a normal political transition that sometimes happens, especially in a country that elects all of its leaders.
This poll reminds me of the idea of standing in front of Glenn Beck’s studio to protest. That is not going to make people stop watching Glenn Beck. If you want Glenn off the air, start protesting at your local stores, handing out flyers with a list of products not to buy because the support Glenn Beck. THAT protest would be more effective, faster.
Want the GOP to be reasonable and the Tea Party to go away? Educate their kids better.
If you kill a branch, you still have a tree. Kill the root, and you will soon only have a stump.
Lots of comments, huh? 😉
Both was the winner here, with GOP in second.
As much as I am tempted by Otis’ most interesting comment, and almost completely agree with him, I’ll stand by my vote, which is GOP. The Tea Party isn’t real. They are merely an extension of the GOP, funded and directed by them. Like any other vicious dog, they sometimes bite their master. However, since they trained their dog to be so vicious, the GOP did the greater harm.
Now, I’m not sure how, but Rachel Maddow must have heard about our poll and released the following story, intentionally timed to coincide with the publication of these results. 😉
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
She agrees with me. Thank you Rachel. 😀