A few months ago, this utterly obscure blog began to attract links from external sites and now boasts several thousand of them.
We have not been able to find a word or term in English to adequately express this rise in popularity, so we can only describe it as "the blog went from utterly obscure to utterly obscure", which matches our modest expectations.
Jokes aside, while several thousand links to the K-Landnews are several thousand more than to our most recent artsy venture lost or found attracts, we did want to know what the figure says.
Not much.
There are, we are told, about 5000 bots out there that have nothing better to do than go around and collect links and content on the web.
Assuming some of the links to the blog were established by humans who like what they read or who need a good example of how not to do an internet presence, the math is clear. The number of bots exceeds the number of links to our site.
This called for an unscientific exploration of the reach of the K-Landnews, which we decided to finish with yesterday's swastika post. The initial exploration of "reach" was done with the lost or found blog, where we saw the following "page views" a split second after hitting the publish button on Twitter: 3 from the U.S., 1 from Germany.
The swastika post about what we would call a f###-up by some overly eager German officials confirmed the numbers, 3 and 1.
Our human readers come in later during the day, as expected, and comments by humans via Twitter are always welcome.
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