just bragging to friends and family a little bit, on a matter of absolutely no consequence to anyone else in the whole world .... from my back porch in milton freewater, oregon ....

this is a matter of no real consequence to anything in the whole world, except perhaps my poor little palpitating ego needs.  really, i am just sort of crowing for friends, so that they will marvel that anyone pays attention, at all.  but, yeah, i suppose if you get me into a corner on it, i am pretty flattered.

i have managed to slip into the rarefied atmosphere of a "technorati" top 100 blogs category, at the technorati blog ranking service.  i think it pretty neat, even if i don't understand what the rankings mean, or even how i got there.

i remain thoroughly small potatoes.

but, here are screen shots of today's rankings.  look quickly, it may not last long.  laughing.   (and, hasn't.  i've gotten pretty  high in these things before, but, slip beneath the waves again when traffic dies down.)

i am ranked, this day, number 43 in the "world politics" blog rankings, out of some 19,748 ranked blogs.  who knew there were so many.  i am just out of the top 100 in several other categories, by 11 or 13 places or so.  i haven't a clue?

but, i'll accept it.  

i have good company in the "world politics" category.  no. 36 spot is occuppied by "jihad watch."  "gates of vienna" comes in at number 27.  "yid with lid" at no. 21.  at slot number 20 is "joshuapundit."  at position no. 13 in today's ranking is "atlasshrugs," hosted by the indomitable pamela geller.  "sultan knish" sits at a very cool no. 5 ranking.

in "u.s. politics" i sit in spot no. 111, and i reside for this day at no. 113 in "politics" generally.

i've been higher, i've been lower, and it sort of goes with the ebb and flow of things attracting my interest for 5 or 6 days, and getting some posts that are read.  odd, that, ... , don't you think.

john jay @ 01.02.2012

p.s.  now, i am gonna look at the sports scores on espn.

here are links to today's rankings.  look quickly, if you are a mind to, because i won't be there long.  (i tried to import screen shots into typepad, but, the typepad editor would not recognize them.  who knows?)   so, if you wanna see them, go there quickly, because they will be gone, and soon.

http://technorati.com/blogs/directory/politics/world/page-3/

http://technorati.com/blogs/wintersoldier2008.typepad.com%2Fsummer_patriot_winter_sol

p.s.s.  i am down to # 44 in "world" politics even as i have composed this, up to no. 109 in "u.s. politics."   in the last 5 minutes.   these things are volatile.  

 

Comments

[Rod]

JJ -
Congratulations. Remember earlier comments regarding blips on the radar screen. I hear you, "A man's gotta do what a mah's gotta do." Beware the Ides of March.

[Rod]

P.S. With your new, lofty status along side Spencer, you won't have time to spend with us, poor grunt types.

[john jay]

rod:

laughing.

there are the big guys.

and, then, the rest of us.

if one of us gets some traffic, or a couple links, then we pop up, only to sink down into the roiling pot with everybody else, once more.

i am firmly entrenched with the little blogs, and like it that way.

you know what i am doing about the troubles of the world this day?

well, i am gonna go down to "a wee bit o' heather's" for breakfast with the guys. and, then, i am gonna think about and watch the oregon duck play kansas state in the bcs bowl game.

and, that's it.

this day, i am an oregon ducks fan, and little else.

john

p.s. i'll always have time for "... the poor grunt types." it's who i am. just a fact of life.

[john jay]

p.s. re: "the ides of march."

03.16.1948, the date of my birth. pretty close to "the ides," ain't it not?