' Twenty-One-Thousand Unique Viewers ' and Counting : All By Accident

As many of you know I've been working on a series of articles about todays internet. In the process, earlier in the day, while still sipping on my first cup of coffee and sitting at the edge of the woodlands in my front yard, a question came to mind. With the question, a series of associations began to emerge. Foremost among these, was a set of photographs I put up over two years ago.

Let me give you just a little background. A couple of years ago, my eleven year old son, then nine was with me and we were headed off toward the mall. Along the way we noticed a girls soccer team doing a fund raising car wash, and as the car needed it, we stopped and killed a few birds with a single stone.

I'm a writer, to be sure, but I am seldom without my camera. While they were scrubbing, It wasn't all that dirty and didn't take very long, I was snapping photo's. When we got home I uploaded the photo's to WebShots and told but a single soul, a friend of mine I went to school with in elementary, junior high, and high school. We were separated for a while during early Viet Nam, but that's another story.

I thought he might appreciate them and eMailed him, and only him, a link. This brings us to an interesting point. Without any publicity whatsoever these photos have** garnered just over 21,138 unique visitors- More visitors than all of my writing and posting combined and I have, let us say, a lot of writing and posting on the internet.

[ This is a good place to Google my name, in quotes, and you'll see what I mean ]

**That's roughly 30 unique viewers per day. My current average with 'serious writing' has      reached approximately 4 per day

To What Conclusion, or Conclusions, Do We Come?