Rebecca Blood has an interesting piece on "How Social Media Works." How an extremely informative forum post from a gate agent on how First Class upgrades really work is not only extremely valuable to the company but also how it's spread to other readers. What's interesting is the role of Google et al. in this process:
One or two other bloggers may have picked up the link from Rafe, and one or two may pick it up from me, and their (likely smaller) audiences have also generated a small percentage of click-throughs. Some readers may email it to their friends. Incrementally, the word about this site, and this specific forum, will spread.Also note that sometime yesterday, Google and Yahoo! and many others indexed my site, and Rafe's site, and from now on I'll receive visits from people who are on the Web searching for information on upgrades. The vast majority of my site traffic is not to my blog—it's to archived posts and essays, and the lists of resources I've put together on various subjects. That traffic comes primarily from search engines. People referred by search engines are (I would judge) highly likely to click through links, because they are actively looking for information on a specific topic.
Ishbadiddle also ends up getting most of its hits from search engines (lots of people looking for "Post Secrets" and, recently, image searches for "Justice League anime"). In the former case, the searchers have not only found something specific, they've created their own community -- 1254 comments and counting. In a way the search engines break down the conversation model of blogs by turning each post into a "node" that is independent of the overall blog. I wonder if any of the Secret-posters are reading the rest of Ish?
Think you mean Tinker to Evers to Chance, no?
Of course, I know baseball isn't your forte. Remember Nomar Hooboobooboo? ;-)
Comment #1 :: link :: October 6, 2006 4:22 PMTinker to Tailor to Evans to Soldier to Chance to Spy?
Comment #2 :: link :: October 7, 2006 1:08 PMYou know, between you (Alex), Jim, and David Block, I won't be able to get any baseball trivia wrong... And yes, the Nomar Incident is burned in my brain!
Comment #3 :: link :: October 9, 2006 10:32 AMFrom memory, I believe it was FP Adams who wrote, "These are the saddest of possible words: Tinkers to Evers to Chance." This was back in the first decade of the last century, when double-plays were relatively rare, and few people were getting on base against the Cubs superlative pitching staffs anyway (team ERA's of 1.75 and 1.73 in successive years!)
"Evers," btw, the secondbaseman, is pronounced Ee-vers.
All 3 are in the Baseball Hall of Fame. You wouldn't think that they belong, looking at their stats, but they were at the top of their profession in their prime.
BTW, here's a trivia question for you: what team has the best record over a 5 year period? You may think it some great Yankee dynasty, but you would be wrong.
Answer: the 1906-1910 Cubs, of T-E-C fame. They were an amazing 530-235, winning more than twice as often as losing, averaging 106-47 in that span, including 4 pennants and 2 World Series, including the last, 1908, that the Cubs have ever won.
Frank Chance was the first baseman and manager, Johnny Evers at second, and Joe Tinker at short (Harry Steinfeldt is the other famous trivia answer, of "who played third for the T-E-C Cubs?" You might say "No, Who played first," but everyone knows Who played for St. Louis).
They also had the best record over a 10 year period in the history of baseball, from 1904-1913, averaging to 99-54.
Reading this over my shoulder, Liz thinks I'm just showing off, so I will say Nomar on the subject.
I guess that would make me a ham, but that's his wife.
Comment #4 :: link :: October 10, 2006 10:39 PMYou see, Mia Hamm is Nomar's wife, but you knew that, right?
Comment #5 :: link :: October 11, 2006 8:32 PMBecause, you see, that's a Double Play on words....
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