No way.
Let me explain. My website presents three of my personae in some detail: the academic, the teacher, and the runner. The website itself was set up to help stimulate interest in the forthcoming publication of my book, The Road to Corbyn. There is, therefore, a fourth persona: the author. However, at this time of the year, for around two months, yet another persona emerges - and has done, regularly, since 1972 with a break of only five years back in the early 80s: the examiner. Being an examiner for national exam boards has its own satisfactions. If you can do a job well enough and you know young people benefit from the exercise of your skills, that feels good. But let's be honest. We needed the extra income. Now the need is less, but I wasn't prepared to say no to the opportunity to examine just yet. But the business of marking is demanding on time and I simply have not found the space to produce a blog - until now.
I thought those of you who read these blogs would be interested in discovering the popularity pattern revealed by the viewing figures for the 24 blogs I have published since mid-January this year.
Way out in the lead with 183 views is my second Jago Stone blog where I raise, inter alia, issues of misogyny and sexism in order to exclude Jago from these charges. My first Jago blog had 43 views, my third Jago post that featured Merlin Porter the artist, Jago's youngest son, had 64 - and my fourth Jago blog that returned to the issues of misogyny and sexism in order to clarify has 47 to date. My fifth Jago post in which I examine his views on prison reform has 33 at the present time. This collection of Jago blogs is a dynamic entity. The viewing figures increase week by week for all five blogs.
The second most popular blog I have produced must owe much to its cunning title: 'Rough Sex in St Ives'. That has scored 98 to date. Other St Ives' posts have done less well. 'St Ives Says No to Second Homes' has 33 at present. 'Under the Surface of St Ives - mining in the past and politics today' comes in at 40. And that is a good cue to show this photo that appeared in the St Ives Times and Echo recently. I look out of my window here where I am working towards this very location. The past is truly a different country.
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| The line of view from my study window is almost directly towards this location. |
Those blogs that focus on my running have proved popular. Running to find the Zone - Part 2 comes in third, overall, at 70 views. My first Running to find the Zone clocked 30 and my last: Running to keep Running has 41 to date.
My paean to our pet dog, Ella, holds fifth place overall at 62.
Unrobing Ofsted seemed to attract some interest, clocking 61 - but the explicit political blogs are very much at the bottom of the viewing charts: Cameron Unmasked Again - the Politics of the Gutter: 19; Misgovernment by Aristocratic Connections: 19; Jeremy Corbyn - Our Next Prime-Minister: 25.
Just wait and see! A prophet is never recognised ....
Now what do the audience figures as calculated by Google show?
Here they are, for you to draw your own conclusions:
U.K 1117
U.S. 388
Ireland 141
Italy 53
Germany 46
France 23
Russia 14
Poland 11
Mexico 10
Ukraine 8
Interesting?
My theory is that there are clans of Donovan in America and Ireland looking out for what one of their boys is up to. The European viewing figures are due for some losses after this Thursday and Brexit - n'est pas?
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