Aditya and I checked out Lijit statistics for Saturday and found that our little blog had over 9500 unique visitors in one day. To put that in perspective, we get about a 1000 a week during the summer time.
Apparently we are getting spammed by the McCain-Palin campaign. Our name has even been added to a list of conservative/libertarian blogs which you can access here. We are right in between California Conservative and Club for Growth. All in all, not a bad list.
--Charles and Aditya
Sunday, August 31, 2008
McCain-Palin Spammers Welcome!
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Subscribe in a reader
1 comments:
Whatever our politics, we all consider the content we create as bloggers valuable. Who is representing us for the VALUE of this data Lijit is both searching and claiming rights too in its terms of use page. Who owns it? What about each individual blogger’s data and the critical sanctity of Publishers private statistics. We at P.U.B. consider the safety of the information any app or widget(s) may be gathering, unbeknownst to the unwitting Publisher who installs them. The point is, you deserve money for those $9,500 views you got, don’t you think?
P.U.B. [Publishers Union of Bloggers] has made direct inquires to both Lijit Senior executives and the venture capitalists investing in Lijit concerning: Ownership of content/ how Lijit generates income and what percentage of this income goes to the Blog Publisher making the critical decision to allow a Widget on their site for their readers. In addition we have requested transparency on the critical issue of how the private statistic from Publishers Blogs are being used.
P.U.B. expected to hear back from Lijit on these financial and private statistics issues from P.U.B’s first inquiry we sent to Lijit in mid April 2008. So far all we’ve read is a public blog response(s) from Lijit advising 1) Lijit has no money, then 2) emails from Lijit’s CEO, Todd Vernon, attacking P.U.B. and falsely accusing we are writing fictitious emails. Any actual answer to PUB’s questions about the use of Publisher’s stats, or revenue as it applies to Lijit? Nada. Nothing.
P.U.B.’s job is to fight for Publishers asking hard questions and demanding answers. If all Widget companies respond as Lijit’s done up to this point, P.U.B. has a big workload for our Publishers, and your membership and support helps us all as Publishers, thanks.
If P.U.B. or our Blog Publisher membership ever gets a straight answer on topic from Lijit, not smoke and mirrors, we will let great Blog Publishers like you know their exact revenue/statistics use/sharing deal. Currently we are also working with Blog Publishers to track performance hit evaluations of Lijit installations, and of course the critical issue of actual ownership of content pulled by Lijit from our blogs.
Will publish these results to keep the community of Blog Publishers informed on this critical component of Widgets on our Blogs.
Sincerely,
Barney Moran
Founder, P.U.B.
Post a Comment