Blogging

Though I have been "Blogging" before there was a name for it in 1999 after I recovered from  heart virus then, I didn't start really researching the number of hits I was getting for various articles until around 2010. Then when the Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami and Fukushima all happened at once my readership jumped I believe because of my advocating Crowd Sourcing with Geiger counters so People could feel safer in Japan and wherever breathing air, drinking water and eating food and even testing the ground wherever they were for radiation.

But, beyond that I have never completely understood why one article gets 100 or 1000 or even 10,000 visits whereas a similar article might get 5 or 50 or 100 or 500 instead.

So, it depends upon a variety of factors. First it is the interest in the subject whether it is news or human interest or whatever it might be. Second people who are interested in something often want to share it with others. Then the people they share it with if they like or are interested in it share it with 1 to 10 or more others and so on and so on until sometimes you get 10,000 visits to a particular site over time which I find kind of amazing. Often what surprises me more is something I wrote or compiled 1 or more years ago someone discovers and that article out of the blue goes viral all of a sudden because someone found it and realized it was interesting or important or whatever.

So, you never know what people are going to do spontaneously, but this is also how the whole world changes a lot too with each person learning about and changing how they think about things through receiving more information than they had before.

So, what I'm sharing about here is just about how fast everything can change too with this method of sharing information where people can share what they think is important whenever they discover it.