I Was Thinking (Bill) Observation

The content that Bill uses in his blog "I Was Thinking" is similar to most other blogs, his views on current events. The last couple of posts included his view on the elections coming up, targeted at John Kerry. Some included posts about the World Series of baseball and his anger towards the red sox for beating the Yankees.

Bill is pretty opinionated with his posts it makes me wonder if he expects comments to attack his motives and if so is that bad? If people agree with his opinions or even disagree would they return to his blog to read further? I would think so. Those two people who like and dislike his motives would want to come back, maybe bring some of their friends The inside scoop with all of this, is with all of this activity going on, his visitor count will be sky rocketing.

This creates another hypothesis. Do controversial posts create a higher volume of audience? That is something that should be looked into. A prime example of controversial posting is a website that I like to view frequently, a site called The Best Page in the Universe. If you do look at this particular page, it’s just this Maddox person who writes what he damn well pleases. There are some pretty bad posts and not a lot of people like him, but why is this page so popular? One guess, it has controversial posts.