The blogger: Neil Pasricha
The blog: 1000awesomethings.com
The topic: little things we savor
The book: The Book of Awesome
The book’s description: "a high five for humanity and big celebration of life's little moment," The Book of Awesome reminds us that the best things in life are truly free.
At what point did the agents come after Pasricha to compile his book of simple, brilliant things? When the blog hit 13 million page-views.
Anybody getting close to being swarmed?
Haha, I have approximately 760 page views, in four months, so still some way to go ... but, you know, exponetial growth can be very effective >:)))
ReplyDeleteCold As Heaven
Har! Not as close as you, Helen.
ReplyDeleteI don't think Blogger could *handle* 13 million page views without crashing....
ReplyDeleteElizabeth
Mystery Writing is Murder
Gettin there ... only about 12.99 million page views to go! (wink)
ReplyDeleteI should live so long!
ReplyDeleteMaribeth
Giggles and Guns
Why yes! I should hit the swarmed status sometime in 2035.
ReplyDeleteIt's hard to even image that many page views.
ReplyDeleteOkay, the mean person in me wants to know can a person just sit there all day and go back and forth to their page and it add up or would it show that it was the host doing it?
Mason
Thoughts in Progress
But does his blog get any comments?
ReplyDeleteMason - good question! Although that would be a huge time-suck.
ReplyDeleteGee, glad agents have all the time in the world to read blogs.
I'm not one of his visitors, so I'm not sure he leaves his own comments (if he does, it's a lot more than I do on mine). Maybe he leaves a comment for every comment he gets. My guess is that someone looked at his visitors and saw how many were unique, how many returns, etc.
ReplyDeleteI've got that book - I had no idea it started as a blog!
ReplyDeleteI don't think I have 1000 things to say! But I'd settle for one awesome, published one. :)
ReplyDeleteMichele
SouthernCityMysteries
Well, I'm thinking my blog will be a posthumous success...
ReplyDeleteNot bloody likely. I have to agree with Elizabeth, I think Blogger would crash under that kind of weight. (Hugs)Indigo
ReplyDeleteIt's fun to dream...
ReplyDeleteMaybe if we came up with a totally new concept, posted every day, used lots of photos, promoted on all the best sites for hours at a time, etc. etc.
ReplyDeleteOkay, totally new concept. You first, Helen. :)
Right now my concept would be really frustrating hotels with lousy Internet service. I leave comments here & at other blogs only to later discover they never posted. I'm now in the bar using my cell. Don't think anyone would buy the book. Needs to be something millions are interested in. Hmmm
ReplyDeleteI'm a sucker for stories about folks just doing something fun and then making it big. Good for them!
ReplyDeleteI have to say good for him. Blogging is work and he must have good writing or no one would have visited and spread the word for him.
ReplyDeleteAs far as making a book out of it, isn't that kind of the reverse of making a book into digital matter? Cheers for that.
Susan, I think what he did was get commenters to leave comments naming their most awesome things, then he compiled the best into a book. Then he had tons of commenters so he got enough fabulous responses and had a built-in readership.
ReplyDeleteI haven't checked Stat Counter in weeks, but I'm pretty sure I'm not that far.. :) Wow!
ReplyDeleteI haven't checked the stat counter in months, Jemi!
ReplyDelete13 MILLION page views? wow!
ReplyDeleteIt is a WOW, Jenn. Hard to imagine.
ReplyDeletewow, almost there.... short of 13 mil imp.. )'
ReplyDeleteThat is a wonderful thing to happen.
Yeah... um... no. Not at all.
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty happy with my blog traffic right now. I hit almost 3,000 viewers in the past month.
But three MILLION hits? I've got about two million, nine-hundred and eighty thousand to go...