February 16, 2007 – 6:14 pm
Google keeps sending the penis searches this way but I gotta say the first one in this month’s list is my favorite so far. In addition, people searching the clue to an online crossword puzzle celebrating Black History Month have lifted this site to a #2 Google rank for the second search listed below [...]
January 23, 2007 – 7:09 pm
When I started this, I wondered if there would be enough unusual searches to make this a regular feature. The pace keeps up enough that it has been monthly. There is, however, a new and (at least to me) somewhat disturbing theme that I grouped together below.
GOOGLE SEARCHES:
the piano flaccid penis
show the pictures of [...]
January 17, 2007 – 12:06 pm
Just when you wonder whether anybody really gives a rip about any of the stuff you blog about, you get at least some reinforcement.
First, although it seemed to gather no notice in the South Dakota blogosphere, my post on credentialing bloggers did attract the attention of CBS News. As you’ll see in a comment [...]
January 12, 2007 – 8:03 pm
PP recently mentioned the idea of bloggers being “credentialed” as part of the press corps for the South Dakota Legislature. Having covered a couple sessions in Pierre as a reporter, I guarantee you I won’t be getting in line for any press passes for bloggers if it ever occurs. But he isn’t the [...]
December 20, 2006 – 6:00 pm
Book bloggers, including those who simply post reviews at Amazon, get blasted occasionally. Sometimes mainstream media reviewers assert that internet-only reviewers simply “enjoy shooting off their mouths” and their work amounts to “the degradation of literary taste.” Even some book bloggers themselves raise questions about whether there is an ethical obligation to disclose [...]
December 17, 2006 – 11:41 am
This post initially started as a result of my review of search terms for the recent installment of search follies. But the public announcement that Congresswoman Stephanie Herseth is engaged makes it more timely.
I’ve always been suprised by how many people come here via Herseth web searches. As you’ll see, virtually all deal [...]
December 11, 2006 – 1:07 pm
Here’s the second installment of search term follies. The “winners” this time around:
GOOGLE SEARCH: can you make your husband carry a fetus in his womb
Since the womb is the uterus and men do not have them, I believe the answer is no. If men did have wombs, though, I believe there would be [...]
November 13, 2006 – 6:28 pm
First, I will ackowledge stealing this idea from Vonnegut’s Asshole (and that’s a sentence that is incapable of sounding quite right). It occasionally looks at some of the, shall we say, odd search terms that bring viewers to the site. While I still get plenty of hits from searches like those using “Stephanie [...]
October 28, 2006 – 4:28 pm
This past week has reinforced my belief that I should move this blog to a host other than Blogger. The service has been down as much as up. Problems and complaints worldwide go without response for hours and hours, let alone repair.
That rant is simply an introduction as to why I am posting [...]
September 1, 2006 – 5:14 pm
A couple of my regular stops in the blogosphere that also review books had some comments this past week I could plainly identify with.
Grumpy Old Bookman led off a post of short reviews acknowledging a problem similar to one of mine: “It has finally dawned on me that if I am ever to mention [...]
Usually, it’s the political items that bring visitors to this piece of the blogosphere’s backwoods. Never, however, underestimate the power of science fiction.
John Scalzi posted a one word link (”these”) on his blog of my review of his Hugo-nominated Old Man’s War. Within less than six hours, my blog received as many hits [...]
I’m one of those simpletons who rates books, DVDs and the like at Amazon and then gets recommendations from the site. I think the system has gone wacky lately.
When I last checked for book recommendations, they included Pathophysiology of Disease, Essentials of General Surgery, Practical Orthopedics and Pathology: Board Review Series, the latter a [...]
Critical Mass, the blog of the National Book Critics Circle board of directors, recently questioned whether it was a conflict of interest for online book reviewers (like me) to provide links to sites like Amazon for the books they review. I think Kevin Holtsberry put it wonderfully:
All kidding aside, or at least most kidding [...]
February 23, 2006 – 6:34 pm
If the hits to this blog are any indication, Kate Looby sure has become a popular figure in cyberspace. Looby, the lobbyist for and director of Planned Parenthood for South Dakota, shows up in an ever-increasing number of the internet searches that bring people here. Thus, the interest is being generated by [...]
September 9, 2005 – 10:02 pm
Other matters kept me from posting this earlier in the day as intended or from commenting on other things that will show up later. Couldn’t let the day expire, though, without must mentioning that this blog was launched two years ago today. While it has changed with time (as all things should), I still see [...]
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