The Tower View

Somewhere in the ether between Friday and Saturday as the weekend moved into full swing, this blog crossed a milestone: 10,000 readers.

Time to take accounts again.

With 10,000 readers accumulated in less than seven months, we are still a tiny secret in the blogosphere. Community newspapers pass out that many copies in a day.

But our audience is growing. At first, it took about a month to gain a thousand readers. We’ve been accelerating ever since.

We have an interesting core audience that has one thing in common: the love of good music. So if you are a hip Europunk in the U.K. or Italy or a rocker from down under in Australia, this is the blog for you. Or if you are a policy wonk in the U.S. working in state or federal government, we seem to be the answer for your discussion of music and streaming podcast needs. Although we still have many readers where we are based at American University in Washington, D.C., our audience stretches beyond the university community.

Although the general demographics remain the same as the last time we reviewed the state of the blog, less than a quarter of our readers now originate in DC. We have strong bases of readers in California and Texas too.

Our lone Texas writer, Jeff Siegel, may be responsible for the Texas readers and much more. Lately, 73 percent of the blog’s readers are new. Jeff’s piece, “How the Media Massage the Pet Food Scare” attracted many new readers during the past week, and now ranks as the most viewed piece on this blog.

During the past few weeks, we also attracted new readers by turning our attention to Latin America. Pieces such as “Bush & Chavez: Invoking Bolivar,” and “Chavez, Walters & The Art of Media Relations” proved to be draws for new readers.

But old favorites also continue to draw attention. Laura Snedeker’s “Nancy Dis-Grace,” remains the most provocative piece on the blog and still draws a steady stream of readers month by month.

For more detailed information about our interesting readers, please see "Truth to Power" and "Internet Café Shoutout #1."

Actually, this blog has attracted readers in 89 countries and territories since it began. Our biggest international audience is in Canada, although as noted, the audience in the U.K., Australia and Italy are also significant.

As long as readers keep coming back for more, we’ll keep climbing into the tower to survey the cultural landscape.

(The photo is from Srdjan Nikolic of Melbourne, Australia via morgueFile.)

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