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		<title>By: Kris K</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2010/01/kiwiblogs_2009_stats.html#comment-654670</link>
		<dc:creator>Kris K</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:48:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Noskire [January 26th, 2010 at 9:01 pm],

&lt;blockquote&gt;Wonder where KB ranks for “paraplegic african-american midget sex”&lt;/blockquote&gt;

I have often wondered about whether &quot;paraplegic african-american midget[s]&quot; would have better or worse aerodynamic properties than just plain &quot;african-american midgets&quot;

Next time we get together at our dwarf tossing meeting I must put this to the test.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Noskire [January 26th, 2010 at 9:01 pm],</p>
<blockquote><p>Wonder where KB ranks for “paraplegic african-american midget sex”</p></blockquote>
<p>I have often wondered about whether &#8220;paraplegic african-american midget[s]&#8221; would have better or worse aerodynamic properties than just plain &#8220;african-american midgets&#8221;</p>
<p>Next time we get together at our dwarf tossing meeting I must put this to the test.</p>
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		<title>By: noskire</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2010/01/kiwiblogs_2009_stats.html#comment-654633</link>
		<dc:creator>noskire</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 08:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>KiwiBlog ranks 30th on Google for the term &quot;goat sex&quot;. 149 people around the globe have more than a passing interest in this it would seem. Wonder where KB ranks for &quot;paraplegic african-american midget sex&quot;? Probably #1 in about 30 minutes after this post.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>KiwiBlog ranks 30th on Google for the term &#8220;goat sex&#8221;. 149 people around the globe have more than a passing interest in this it would seem. Wonder where KB ranks for &#8220;paraplegic african-american midget sex&#8221;? Probably #1 in about 30 minutes after this post.</p>
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		<title>By: PaulL</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2010/01/kiwiblogs_2009_stats.html#comment-654622</link>
		<dc:creator>PaulL</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 07:17:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The great thing about something like goat sex, is it is self fulfilling.  You carefully pull out all the sex terms, put them in a blog post.  We all comment about them, and next time around, you&#039;ve jumped up a few places in the goat sex search order.  Hell, if we all put in one gratuitous comment about goat sex in the general comments section each day, you&#039;d sky rocket.  Not sure what all that popularity would be good for though - I&#039;m not sure that the commenters you&#039;d get from that search term would raise the general quality of debate.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The great thing about something like goat sex, is it is self fulfilling.  You carefully pull out all the sex terms, put them in a blog post.  We all comment about them, and next time around, you&#8217;ve jumped up a few places in the goat sex search order.  Hell, if we all put in one gratuitous comment about goat sex in the general comments section each day, you&#8217;d sky rocket.  Not sure what all that popularity would be good for though &#8211; I&#8217;m not sure that the commenters you&#8217;d get from that search term would raise the general quality of debate.</p>
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		<title>By: Cactus Kate</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2010/01/kiwiblogs_2009_stats.html#comment-654594</link>
		<dc:creator>Cactus Kate</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:19:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>No DPF did it as an educational experiment to see how many stupid people would write in to comment about something so obvioius.

Experiment over.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No DPF did it as an educational experiment to see how many stupid people would write in to comment about something so obvioius.</p>
<p>Experiment over.</p>
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		<title>By: David Farrar</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2010/01/kiwiblogs_2009_stats.html#comment-654555</link>
		<dc:creator>David Farrar</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:24:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Not to protect it, as most people know it, but just to stop it registering more in Google.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Not to protect it, as most people know it, but just to stop it registering more in Google.</p>
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		<title>By: NoCash</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2010/01/kiwiblogs_2009_stats.html#comment-654529</link>
		<dc:creator>NoCash</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 01:47:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Did you cross out &quot;Cathy Oxxxxx&quot; to protect the true identify of... the plant girl?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Did you cross out &#8220;Cathy Oxxxxx&#8221; to protect the true identify of&#8230; the plant girl?</p>
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		<title>By: Inventory2</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2010/01/kiwiblogs_2009_stats.html#comment-654527</link>
		<dc:creator>Inventory2</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 01:41:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Right then - 17,000 inward links at $0.05 each - where do I send the invoice?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Right then &#8211; 17,000 inward links at $0.05 each &#8211; where do I send the invoice?</p>
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		<title>By: Tauhei Notts</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2010/01/kiwiblogs_2009_stats.html#comment-654523</link>
		<dc:creator>Tauhei Notts</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 01:37:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>4000 visits from the Fonterra ISP.
That makes my 9.12 p.m. comment on yesterday&#039;s General Debate pertinent.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>4000 visits from the Fonterra ISP.<br />
That makes my 9.12 p.m. comment on yesterday&#8217;s General Debate pertinent.</p>
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		<title>By: Repton</title>
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		<dc:creator>Repton</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:29:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Interesting that MSD is high on the list -- I&#039;m doing some work at DOL at the moment and Kiwiblog is blocked there..
(probably because you sometimes use the F-word)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Interesting that MSD is high on the list &#8212; I&#8217;m doing some work at DOL at the moment and Kiwiblog is blocked there..<br />
(probably because you sometimes use the F-word)</p>
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		<title>By: benlandmaycock</title>
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		<dc:creator>benlandmaycock</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&#039;Oh, come on David – you don’t need to be a pollster to be able to factor in the fact that NZ lacks the competition of blogs that comes with 15x the population.&#039;

The problem with this statement Anna is that you assume that competition is wholly zero-sum (i.e. everyone has a uniform maximum number of blogs they look at - so, if you add a blog to your reading you also have to subtract one).  

There is definitely evidence that points against this. For example, generally you will always find a Mcdonalds, KFC and Burger King in quite close range. They&#039;ve established that competition can be positive-sum. More fast-food outlets in a certain area often means increased prominence and, thus, greater awareness - resulting in increased business for all.

So, all said, it could be reasonable to assume that more blogs in the UK means that more people read more blogs. Now I&#039;m njot saying this is 100% true as I have no statistics. But I am saying that your idea of zero-sum competition might not be as bigger factor as you think it is and that it doesn&#039;t have to be included as a disclaimer by DPF.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8216;Oh, come on David – you don’t need to be a pollster to be able to factor in the fact that NZ lacks the competition of blogs that comes with 15x the population.&#8217;</p>
<p>The problem with this statement Anna is that you assume that competition is wholly zero-sum (i.e. everyone has a uniform maximum number of blogs they look at &#8211; so, if you add a blog to your reading you also have to subtract one).  </p>
<p>There is definitely evidence that points against this. For example, generally you will always find a Mcdonalds, KFC and Burger King in quite close range. They&#8217;ve established that competition can be positive-sum. More fast-food outlets in a certain area often means increased prominence and, thus, greater awareness &#8211; resulting in increased business for all.</p>
<p>So, all said, it could be reasonable to assume that more blogs in the UK means that more people read more blogs. Now I&#8217;m njot saying this is 100% true as I have no statistics. But I am saying that your idea of zero-sum competition might not be as bigger factor as you think it is and that it doesn&#8217;t have to be included as a disclaimer by DPF.</p>
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		<title>By: Kris K</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2010/01/kiwiblogs_2009_stats.html#comment-654468</link>
		<dc:creator>Kris K</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:46:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Brian Smaller 11:50 am,

&lt;blockquote&gt;It could have a correlation with recent immigration trends.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Do you think they&#039;ve run out of goats in Europe and the UK, and have realised that NZ has quite high goat populations in the rural backblocks - hence the recent trend of immigrants of a certain persuasion?

And if so, if we culled out the rural goat population then this may result in the reversal of the influx of a certain class of immigrant?

Let the culling begin, I say!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Brian Smaller 11:50 am,</p>
<blockquote><p>It could have a correlation with recent immigration trends.</p></blockquote>
<p>Do you think they&#8217;ve run out of goats in Europe and the UK, and have realised that NZ has quite high goat populations in the rural backblocks &#8211; hence the recent trend of immigrants of a certain persuasion?</p>
<p>And if so, if we culled out the rural goat population then this may result in the reversal of the influx of a certain class of immigrant?</p>
<p>Let the culling begin, I say!</p>
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		<title>By: Brian Smaller</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2010/01/kiwiblogs_2009_stats.html#comment-654452</link>
		<dc:creator>Brian Smaller</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;[DPF: I have never put anything into the metatags. In fact I have never done any of the various things SEO experts say you should do. I just write a lot]

&lt;/blockquote&gt;

About goat sex apparently :)

[DPF: Only once or twice I think - how ever often someone in Nelson has been caught doing it :-)]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>[DPF: I have never put anything into the metatags. In fact I have never done any of the various things SEO experts say you should do. I just write a lot]</p>
</blockquote>
<p>About goat sex apparently <img src='http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>[DPF: Only once or twice I think - how ever often someone in Nelson has been caught doing it <img src='http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> ]</p>
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		<title>By: homepaddock</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2010/01/kiwiblogs_2009_stats.html#comment-654442</link>
		<dc:creator>homepaddock</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Arise Sir Blog :) Congratulations, those are very impressive stats, and thanks for the good reading.

I&#039;ve noticed that No Minister always tops the list of inwards links on my blog too.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Arise Sir Blog <img src='http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  Congratulations, those are very impressive stats, and thanks for the good reading.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve noticed that No Minister always tops the list of inwards links on my blog too.</p>
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		<title>By: Guy Fawkes</title>
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		<dc:creator>Guy Fawkes</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>bearhunter - that is very funny indeed.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>bearhunter &#8211; that is very funny indeed.</p>
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		<title>By: Guy Fawkes</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2010/01/kiwiblogs_2009_stats.html#comment-654434</link>
		<dc:creator>Guy Fawkes</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:07:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>BTW, I much prefer David Farrar&#039;s bog area for rational and considered debate. Back in Godzone soon.

bastardoldholborn.co.uk is also quite a hoot.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>BTW, I much prefer David Farrar&#8217;s bog area for rational and considered debate. Back in Godzone soon.</p>
<p>bastardoldholborn.co.uk is also quite a hoot.</p>
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		<title>By: Guy Fawkes</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2010/01/kiwiblogs_2009_stats.html#comment-654432</link>
		<dc:creator>Guy Fawkes</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:05:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>There is a lot of competition in the UK for readers attention. Guido&#039;s very fine blog is one of the most mischievious. As the UK glides towards a critical General Election, with many parallels with NZ&#039;s last one. It might become compulsive viewing. 

Think a sudden influx of keen Kiwi Kommentators in the comments section would stir things up quite nicely.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is a lot of competition in the UK for readers attention. Guido&#8217;s very fine blog is one of the most mischievious. As the UK glides towards a critical General Election, with many parallels with NZ&#8217;s last one. It might become compulsive viewing. </p>
<p>Think a sudden influx of keen Kiwi Kommentators in the comments section would stir things up quite nicely.</p>
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		<title>By: Lucia Maria</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2010/01/kiwiblogs_2009_stats.html#comment-654429</link>
		<dc:creator>Lucia Maria</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>David,

You could almost do your own blogosphere blog rankings based on those in-coming links!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>David,</p>
<p>You could almost do your own blogosphere blog rankings based on those in-coming links!</p>
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		<title>By: Ryan Sproull</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2010/01/kiwiblogs_2009_stats.html#comment-654428</link>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Sproull</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:53:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.statehighwayone.com/2009/07/how-many-movies-has-kevin-bacon-made-viagra/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;A possible explanation for odd search terms in that list.&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.statehighwayone.com/2009/07/how-many-movies-has-kevin-bacon-made-viagra/" rel="nofollow">A possible explanation for odd search terms in that list.</a></p>
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		<title>By: Brian Smaller</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2010/01/kiwiblogs_2009_stats.html#comment-654424</link>
		<dc:creator>Brian Smaller</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:50:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;If you add goat sex and animal sex together (wtf is with the goat sex) its nearly number 2 on the sex search list. Thats just craziness.
&lt;/blockquote&gt;

It could have a correlation with recent immigration trends.

Or, it could just be DPF putting wierd things in his metatags (or whatever they are called) to increase hits on his site.

[DPF: I have never put anything into the metatags. In fact I have never done any of the various things SEO experts say you should do. I just write a lot]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>If you add goat sex and animal sex together (wtf is with the goat sex) its nearly number 2 on the sex search list. Thats just craziness.
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<p>It could have a correlation with recent immigration trends.</p>
<p>Or, it could just be DPF putting wierd things in his metatags (or whatever they are called) to increase hits on his site.</p>
<p>[DPF: I have never put anything into the metatags. In fact I have never done any of the various things SEO experts say you should do. I just write a lot]</p>
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		<title>By: Jeff83</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jeff83</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:35:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If you add goat sex and animal sex together (wtf is with the goat sex) its nearly number 2 on the sex search list.  Thats just craziness.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you add goat sex and animal sex together (wtf is with the goat sex) its nearly number 2 on the sex search list.  Thats just craziness.</p>
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