WOEBOT

Ego Trippin'

Still chuckling after Simon's hilarious, surreal piece on the love affair between bloggs and grime, and excuse the tone if you will, I was prompted to pick up one of his points: "There is a latent grandiosity to blogging because there isn't actually any physical limit to how many people could tune in." Well exactly how many people are tuning in?

Sitting in the studio last night, though the vibe was high, the phone was doing anything but running off the hook. I'd tuned in to Resonance earlier on the week to hear two very human types (one of the London Electric Guitar Orchestra) complaining that no one ever calls in. They even detailed a scam which some renegade had run at the station. The person (blimey, sorry for sounding so wooly, don't know ANY of the names in question!) bought 20 packs of Walkers crisps, each of which according to the rubric might have contained a ten pound note. The scammer announced on air that they potentially had two hundred pounds to give away, and that people should contact the studio. They fielded quite a few calls apparently. I wonder if all this "That's 32 missed calls for that track" on the pirates is a load of spin? Come to think of it, when a friend ran a pirate station in, was it 1991, we were up to the same tricks.....

OK I've got the modesty bollox out of the way now. The fun thing about doing the blogs is that the feedback is excellent and very gratifying. I've had some cracking emails recently: Jassi Sidhu saying he was glad I enjoyed the album, one from Wm Marston AIA a self-professed "55-yr old white middle-class American guy", hilarious unpublishable behind-the-scenes stuff on Vincent Gallo from Stuart Argabright and club class analogue synthesiser drooling from Kirk Degiorgio:

It's not just the emails which are fun (I've now collated the addresses of 298 people who have contacted me through Woebot - juat wait for the spam people.....) it's also the stats. The very conservative daily average of hits right across the site is 10,000. This frequently goes up to 15,000. Obviously the amount of JPEGS I post here plays some part in this. However the daily figure for hits solely on the frontage has gone steadily up to 650! That's a lot.....isn't it? I'm sharing all this with you primarily to pump my ego, but if you do enjoy coming here you might be consoled to know that you're not alone. Natch other blogs are much more popular, go and have a look at Technorati's Top 100, and feel very small. But HA! I'd like to see them talk about skronky music!