Stardate 20010908.1412 (Crew, this is the Captain): This site started
in the middle of March,
and for the first month
or so I thought it was a good day
when I got a hundred hits, with 50 being more typical. That's back
when I was still hosting it on Road Runner's server and maintaining
it with Front Page. Since then my readership
has been growing, aided in particular by
two cases where high-traffic sites linked to me
and gave me several hundred refers each.
The first was totally unexpected:
Robot Wisdom linked to me (with the not-quite-complimentary description of "brainiac", but there you have it) and
my traffic levels approximately doubled. Then my friend Brad Wardell linked to me from
WinCustomize. So now
my traffic on weekdays tends to run between 250 and 300 hits
per day. (It's about half that on weekends and holidays,
leading me to believe that a lot of you
are reading USS Clueless when you're at the office. Don't
you have anything better to do?
GET TO WORK! 
) And
I've stayed at about that level for more than a month, or so it seems. Sigh. What to do?
Unfortunately, it looks like I'm going to have to start sucking up. There are sites out there which are not noticeably better than their peers who are nonetheless famous and get a lot of traffic, and I'm going to have to start reading them myself and see if I can find things to say about them in hopes that they'll notice the refers. Your basic A-listers. The Clique. The Insiders. (None'a you slobs; you're all C-list like I am, living out here in the Web ghetto.) Maybe I'll even write to them when I do it to make sure they know. There's one guy who is not mediocre that I've been trying to woo but haven't gotten any response from. (He's too busy curing sick kids, which I must admit is a better use of his time than reading my drivel.) Damn. It just goes against the grain; I've never been one to try to suck up to an in-crowd. It just feels so... so... so high school. Darned if I know what to do. How low will I go? How slutty will I get? Stay tuned. (Hey, maybe I can get Kottke to link to me! Whatcha think? All in good fun, Jason -- I didn't 
really mean it. I think "dictionary word of the day" entries are a good idea, and you are a fine photographer.) (discuss)
