{"id":2730,"date":"2008-03-08T23:55:01","date_gmt":"2008-03-09T06:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=2730"},"modified":"2008-03-09T11:38:44","modified_gmt":"2008-03-09T18:38:44","slug":"another-record-breaking-week-is-2008-the-year-of-the-bloodhound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2730\/another-record-breaking-week-is-2008-the-year-of-the-bloodhound\/","title":{"rendered":"Another record-breaking week: Is 2008 the Year of the Bloodhound?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BloodhoundBlog has had one record-breaking week after another in 2008, but this week was the first time we had more than 14,000 unique visitors, an average of 2,000 &#8220;uniques&#8221; a day.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/14000Uniques.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Nothing exceeds like excess: We add new subscribers every day, our Technorati links are on the upsurge, and we are pushing 100,000 backlinks. If the RE.net is like the Roman Republic, then we are like Gaius Marius, Caesar&#8217;s uncle: New on the scene, rude, crude, vulgar &#8212; and very powerful. That&#8217;s a role that suits me just fine. I&#8217;m happy to leave the Patricians squabbling amongst themselves over emoluments and honors. I&#8217;m much more concerned with the work-a-day Plebeians &#8212; and with the Barbarians at our gates.<\/p>\n<p>Why are we the biggest? Because we deliver the goods to hard-working grunts-on-the-ground like you. How are we going to grow even bigger? By delivering the goods to hard-working grunts-on-the-ground like you. It ain&#8217;t rocket science.<\/p>\n<p>Russell Shaw is convinced we have reached <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Tipping_Point_(book)\" target=\"_blank\">the &#8220;tipping point&#8221;<\/a>, the point past which everything we say here can have an impact on the way our business is conducted. I retain my doubts, but I do not doubt for a moment that our words have a deep, a penetrating and an enduring reach. And to that notion, I cannot but shout out some slightly edited sentiments from latter-day America&#8217;s greatest satiric philosophers, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_Park\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Stone and Trey Parker<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b><i>America! [Heck] yeah!<\/i><\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the Web 2.0 world &#8212; in the <i>disintermediated<\/i> world &#8212; in the world without middle-men &#8212; delivering the goods is all that should matter. The BloodhoundBlog idea is simple enough &#8212; keeping the wealth that you alone produce in <i>your own<\/i> pocket &#8212; but it is in a sense a very ancient idea, a very <i>Greek<\/i> idea. The Hoplite Greeks were their own men, and this is why they fought better &#8212; and why they <i>thought<\/i> better &#8212; than any human beings who had come before them. The BloodhoundBlog idea is but a small reflection of the Hellenic revolution, but it is an idea that <i>should<\/i> win, that <i>should<\/i> prosper in a world where no middle-man can squelch an idea or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2730\/another-record-breaking-week-is-2008-the-year-of-the-bloodhound\/#more-2730\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BloodhoundBlog has had one record-breaking week after another in 2008, but this week was the first time we had more than 14,000 unique visitors, an average of 2,000 &#8220;uniques&#8221; a day. Nothing exceeds like excess: We add new subscribers every day, our Technorati links are on the upsurge, and we are pushing 100,000 backlinks. 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