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To: LindyBill who wrote (95166)	1/13/2005 8:14:35 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793974

Outside the Beltway - SiteMeter Debate: Perspective Posted by James Joyner at 18:20 Earlier, I stumbled on something that may add a bit of sober perspective to the debate over whether SiteMeter is the best measure of blog traffic. A brand new site that I had never heard of, run by a college undergraduate, is currently #5 on the TTLB's Traffic Rankings, averaging 144,687 unique daily visits for the past week. Indeed, he's had more traffic so far this month (3,04o,000+) than OTB has had in its nearly two year history (2,397,000+) and 5,010,195 since opening or business last month. Why? He's hosting this collection of tsunami videos,http://jlgolson.blogspot.com/2004/12/tsunami-video.html topped the search engines with it, and has gotten lots of MSM and blogospheric attention--and a Drudge link. Note's site author Jordan Golson, outsidethebeltway.com For all you nerds out there, more than 1 petabyte of videos has been downloaded from this site. That's the equivalent of over 300,000,000 mp3's Amazing.