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YOUR WORLD IN CHARTS: "KEEPING IT IN PERSPECTIVE" EDITION.
Was playing around on Alexa this morning, and noticed that the biggest political blog in the universe is currently being trounced by a thrice-weekly web comic that's mainly comprised of stick figures doing math:
Keeps you humble.
COMMENTS (9)
While I adore XKCD, it has to be said that Alexa is less reliable than Zogby. Its next to worthless.
Posted by: mark kawakami | May 12, 2008 11:40 AM
Clearly, your blog needs more stick figures debating health care policy.
Posted by: Trevor J | May 12, 2008 11:45 AM
The irony is that xkcd itself is beaten by a hackneyed conservative political cartoon. Unfortunately I don't remember the name, but Randy himself claimed this.
Posted by: Shock Mouse | May 12, 2008 12:02 PM
You need to write facile and overwrought observations about how people in ironic t-shirts are really desperately lonely. Because that is totally original. xkcd is the one case in which the Comics Curmudgeon has steered me in the wrong direction.
Posted by: JoePo | May 12, 2008 12:33 PM
Zogby is my choice too.
Posted by: Bill Burniece | May 12, 2008 1:18 PM
@Mark:
As we Irish blarney dispensers like to say, "It's a great story! Why confuse it with facts?"
Good post, Ezra.
Posted by: Bendan | May 12, 2008 1:26 PM
Hard to believe I mistyped my own name.
Posted by: Brendan | May 12, 2008 1:28 PM
I can explain that.
xkcd has 400 comics that you
can flick through. Each counts as a page view and each takes a fews seconds to absorb. Daily kos has unpredictable, but daily news relevant, articles,
so I am never likely to repeatedly hit the random button, as I do on xkcd.
Does anyone here randomly choose to read old news-type articles from a website?
Posted by: catclub | May 12, 2008 1:29 PM
But how much time do they spend on each site? I suspect XKCD gets far, far less reading time than DKos. And of course, only one of those two is changing the world.
http://xkcdsucks.blogspost.com
Posted by: bill.d | May 13, 2008 3:33 AM