Self-Referential Narcissism No. 1: The UK’s Fifth Biggest Blog
Never ones to blow our trumpet – ahem – it came as quite the surprise yesterday to learn that, according to Blogstorm, hecklerspray is now the UK's fifth-biggest blog.
And, much like other famous fifth-placers like fifth-place 1983 Eurovision Song Contest entry Hoffmann & Hoffmann and the 2007 Venezuelan Softball World Cup squad, we're thrilled. How thrilled are we? Well, this time last year hecklerspray was the tenth-biggest UK blog and now we're the fifth-biggest, so the answer is probably 'twice as much as last year'. In case any of you wanted to know how Blogstorm calculated the ginormity of hecklerspray, here's its explanation:
The Top 100 UK Blogs ranking was compiled by listing over 1400 UK blogs and calculating their popularity using the well known metrics of Alexa Ranking and Technorati Ranking for each site.
See? So we're the Best Entertainment Blog in the UK according to Ask, Metro and a ginger Scottish man and the fifth-biggest overall UK blog according to some complicated calculations. And that honestly couldn't have happened without you lot, so thanks – especially those of you who've been reading hecklerspray for a while and left comments and stuff. Next year we've calculated that we'll be the second and a half biggest blog in the country, so thanks in advance for that, too.
Incidentally, Blogstorm has Belle De Jour listed as the UK's 74th biggest blog. Since we're clearly much bigger than that, we vow not to rest until hecklerspray is adapted into a glossy ITV2 drama about Billie Piper playing us and wanking off a load of blokes in her knickers, too. For it is our destiny.
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Only the fifth biggest? Can you let me know the somewhat more prestigous sites so I know my blogs are getting their due attention? Just kidding.
Ok, so you got Best Entertainment… well done.
How about instigating yearly awards for your bloggers? Obviously no money or prizes, just the fame (infamy?).
I suggest Blogs can be self or other nominated in several categories. Some ideas are:
Most Sweary (most profanity in a blog) I’m odds on I think for this one!
Most Funny
Most Ironic
Most like a mobile (cell) phone text
Most irrelevant
Most “Biased Pricks” in a single blog
etc
Go on, give a little back…
Ok, so these are posts or responses. It’s just that the Most Sweary Poster sounds like a bit of A4 stuck on a pole advertising your local Punk group.
You know what JBollocks? We had a very similar idea just last week, so chances are before too long there’s probably going to be a Comment/Commenter Of The Week style thing starting. Eventually. Watch this space…
Shouldn’t that be “Commentator”?
Oh shush
It’s Commentalistâ„¢, actually.
Couldn’t resist… …a commentator is a low class potato in the US. Booo