freeg131: Philip Gamble

Does blogging about real-world news and events mean extra traffic? Apparently so.

Looking at my traffic stats for freeg131, the most popular page is the one about the most successful olympic nation per capita - 6 of the top 10 search terms used to find this site where people looking for this information.

Also bringing in traffic are searches regarding Ian Oakley (story summed up here), other Olympic queries and a recent MasterCard advert.

As far as getting web traffic content certainly is king, if you build it they will come (etc etc).  However I don’t think it is worth writing numerous current affairs posts per day in the hope of grabbing more traffic - especially not here on my personal blog.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7585234.stm

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In Taekwondo, or dancing around and rarely doing anything, you can kick people in the head. But not the referee.

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On the way back from a holiday in Yorkshire we drove through Bradford city centre.

I spotted two eco-firsts.  A 2+ lane on the motorway (car share lane) and wind turbines and solar panels on the top of council tower blocks.

Interesting.  Now build more……

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Not that one.

A Computing, B Geography, C History

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Being told of the “tremendous support” for the British canoers/kayakers before the start of each run they do.

Watching replays of action from just a few hours ago when it is obvious we didn’t win any medals - if we did it would be the headline story.

Watching Steve Redgrave and John Inverdale whisper as they present the rowing so as to avoid disturbing the Australian broadcaster Channel 7 and NBC who commentate in the pens either side of them.

Oh why? It’s the Olympics.

And the opening ceromony was faked, both the fireworks and the singing.

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When applying to University in the UK you have no choice but to use the UCAS system (unless you only apply to Oxford and Cambridge). They charge you £15 for the privilege of using an over-complicated website which requires you to use separate login details to apply and then track the progress of your application.

Not only that but in the past 3 days they have sent me three separate letters containing nothing but an advert (for Lloyds TSB, some student housing company and for the Teacher Development Agency) and three letters explaining that they send us this junk to keep the cost down.  This far from the only junk mail they have sent me though, I have had adverts for O2, numerous for yougofurther, BBC Radio 1’s “surgery” program and some shop called One4Uni.

Why are they using our future as a business?  Because they can.  Because £15 x 550,000 applicants (£8.25M a year) is not enough.

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