Yesterday Independent Sources had almost 6,000 visitors. 5,000 of them came looking for Steve Erhardt “the living Ken doll” who is best known to our readers as the man who willingly received painful butt-implants.
Unfortunately our Google AdSense numbers didn’t scale with the increased activity. Not sure what ads would best be served up to people […]
Hope you enjoyed our special anniversary posting:
We couldn’t think of a more appropriate way of celebrating the 1-year anniversary of Independent Sources so all week-end long visitors were met with this server error (pretty cool, huh?).
We’re not sure how we’ll celebrate next year’s anniversary. Perhaps we will take the occasion to infect all visitor’s […]
PoynterOnline reports that at a major Norwegian news website, the two most popular posts for 2005 were about how to save 50% on hotel rooms, and how to speed up your PC. The top story about sex — “Naked Singer Performs Oral Sex On Stage” — was #3.
But they didn’t cover “Varm Lesbian Kjønn […]
Checking stats tonight I was impressed to see someone had found our blog by typing the word “cheerleader” into Google. Surprised that this common search term would bring someone to Independent Sources, I looked closer and saw that this person had found us after first reviewing the 810 prior results. That is determination.
For the record, […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)While reading the Los Angeles Times’ self-important declaration of all that it intends to do in its 125th anniversary year (Sunday’s page A5, not available online), it struck us that all we had to do was make a few changes, and we could recycle the copy for our own use! Here goes:
“Today marks the beginning […]
November was a bit of a disappointment to this writer. Several posts that I thought had potential simply failed to take off. Click through to the following to see if I am just flat-out wrong:
Bill Said To Use Every Icon In The Clip Art Library …: You think you’ve seen bad Powerpoint presentations? Wait until […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)The Los Angeles Times‘ Calendar section features local L.A. bloggers today. Among those featured:
not us
Patterico, our style-and-content hero
not us
Mayor Sam — although the Times’ fact checkers may want to look into that “written anonomously” line
not Mickey Kaus — who frequently opines about local issues, including the LAT
voice of reason LAObserved
not us
We’re going to work harder […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)The search results that bring you to Independent Sources say a lot about both you our readers and us the writers. We decided to look at our traffic logs to see what search terms were bringing in the most traffic and how Independent Sources ranked in the search engines on those searches.
One of our more […]
Independent Sources loves Steve Erhardt and we are not alone.
In fact, over 10,000 of you (and counting) have come to Independent Sources to read all about Steve Erhardt. We even found a female counterpart for him to write about and you came to that story too!
Here is the trifecta:
And What is Up with Steve Erhardt?
Female […]
The October 16th Los Angeles Times Current Section excerpts from our story: “Have You Killed Someone?” added to the list of things you can’t ask job applicants. In this posting we lampoon the San Francisco Board of Supervisors for their belief that asking someone if they are a felon is an unacceptable bias against […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)If you type “Worst Liberals” into Google, you’ll end up here at Independent Sources. We hope you are not disappointed.
At least we’re #1.
While you’re here perhaps you’ll enjoy:
Irresponsible Commenting Leads to “Baker Street” Revival
Richard Scrushy: We have a job for you
Widow Puts Dead Steelers Fan in Recliner w/Remote and says “He’s Happiest This Way”
Click Flick […]
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We don’t really understand what this Iranian blog are saying but we are certain that it is complementary to us. More importantly we now know that Independent Sources is big in the Islamic Republic of Iran!
In response to the interests of our new Persian readers, look for Independent Sources […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)For the first time in a very long time Independent Sources is not going to post anything today. Instead we will be focusing efforts on raising cash for affected areas, pulling together clothes and other things to donate, and then getting them to the donation centers. If we do come across a particularly good […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Indepundit came up with a very good idea for raising funds for Katrina survivors. Namely, you pick a vice, go without it for a month, and give that money to a Katrina charity. His suggestions were along the lines of giving up beer or Starbucks–two things that’d be tough for me to do. But I […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)…Lynnwood, Washington!
Using a sophisticated sampling technique, Independent Sources has determined that the most popular blog in Lynnwood, Washington is indeed us! For proof, look no further than this quote from kuru lounge (you can tell the Seattle influence by the lack of capitals in their name, which would be like us using “independent sources,”):
Oh My God, this […]
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