{"id":474,"date":"2005-08-05T20:44:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-05T20:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=474"},"modified":"2005-08-05T20:44:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-05T20:44:00","slug":"celebrating-10-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=474","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating 10 million"},"content":{"rendered":"

No, I haven’t won the lottery (with a ticket I haven’t got), but Blogcritics, of which I’m now an editor-at-large, is celebrating its 10 millionth hit. More than 8 million of those have been in the past year, the third of its existence, a growth that this post<\/a> outlines.<\/p>\n

If you haven’t seen Blogcritics<\/a> before, go out and check it out. It now has some 1,000 contributing bloggers. There’s huge music and video sections, and, where you’ll find me, books, culture and politics. <\/p>\n

The politics section gets the most heated – sometimes it seems the right is in the ascendent, sometimes the left – but there’s also some excellent news you might not get elsewhere. I was taken today by a post on Canada’s new governor-general<\/a>, a Haitian-born woman, who’s replacing a woman of Japanese extraction. (Sad to think that in progressive politics Australia and Canada were once neck and neck. What does Australia get now? white male clerics with dubious pasts.)<\/p>\n

In books you’ll find a lot of popular light reading, but also plenty of meatier material, from a review of two books on the collapse of a major hedge fund<\/a> to an explanation for genocide<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Culture is something of a catch-all. You’ll find my theatre reviews there, but also musing on whether you should stay friends with your ex<\/a>, and similar. And I got quite a bit of interest with a post on a 12th-century Anglo-Norman play, so you don’t have to worry about dealing with what some might see as obscure topics!<\/p>\n

If I’ve got one complaint, it’s that women are in a definite minority. So if you’re a blogger – particularly a female blogger – who posts on any of these topics – even if only occasionally – why not think about joining and getting more readers for your gems of wisdom, and more traffic to your blog? More here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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