Furious Seasons

July 30, 2008

Thanks For The Record

I knew something was up early Tuesday morning when I noticed the post I did on the Lenzer/Brownlee media list was getting a lot of attention and a lot of hits. But nothing could have prepared me for what was an epic flood of readers, mostly from reddit.com and all very interested in learning which medical experts aren't bagmen for Big Pharma. By mid-evening, as things were cooling down, this site had well over 3,000 hits (or visits, to be more precise), far eclipsing its previous record of about 1,750 visits last December when Google screwed me out of $600 and some of the posts I wrote about it got a bit of attention. (Here's hoping the brand new search engine Cuil.com, founded by former Googleites, does really, really well. :))

Thanks wang-banger.

I'll be mostly offline today, tending to other matters, but might post a tasty little item here in a bit.

Posted by Philip Dawdy at July 30, 2008 08:00 AM

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Thanks for the tip re: the new search engine! Go Reddit readers. Now click PayPal and donate!

Posted by: Stephany at July 30, 2008 08:24 AM

Cuil has promise of being a better search engine than Google. It still has a few bugs on it, but the early review I saw on the Apple Insider on Monday was most promising.

What was amazing with it was when I put your name in it, I got a plethora of other articles you have written, Philip, not just the ones from FS.

Glad you are getting ginoumous hits and the recognition you deserve.

Posted by: susan at July 30, 2008 10:46 AM

Philip,

I am glad you had lots of visitors to your site.

In my opinion, though, the list is worthless.
After I printed it and read it and saw that Peter Kramer of Brown University was on the list, I tore it up and threw it away. It is a useless piece of garbage so I tossed it in the garbage can.

Posted by: Rosie C. at July 30, 2008 11:20 AM

rosie, i think you are overreacting to the list, although if that's your feeling so be it. there are lots of others on there besides kramer and i think any reporter picking up the phone to speak with kramer would be well aware of his biases, non pharma funded though they may be, in advance of talking to him.

Posted by: Philip Dawdy at July 30, 2008 01:45 PM

"Go Reddit readers. Now click PayPal and donate!" [2]

Posted by: Ana at July 30, 2008 02:49 PM

Going back to the crap Google laid on Philip by suspending his account and not paying the $600.00 bucks: I, as several other bloggers canceled our accounts in disgust and to show a sign of solidarity when that happened.

When I canceled my acct. I was to be owed $28.80. Google had until March of 2008 to mail me my check according to their policy.

Today, I received the check from Google.

Cheers Philip.

(the donation is in the mail)

Posted by: Stephany at July 30, 2008 07:53 PM