Blog traffic is soaring

Reading the latest issue of Web User this evening I saw a news piece claiming that visits to blogs by UK surfers reached their highest-ever levels in June and in fact accounted for one in every 84 website visits.  According to Hitwise who released the piece of research rather unsurprisingly the BBC, Guardian and this blog were amoung the most popular……OK you caught me, I lied about the last one.

The research also revealed that traffic to blogs has grown by more than 100 per cent in the last three years compared with an increase of 70 per cent to news and media websites.  All interesting stuff and worth remembering the next time you are in a pitch or meeting with a client and they ask say “blogs, what is your take on them?”.

IT Crowd Props

I just saw on the dot.life blog that Graham Linehan, writer of the IT Crowd, has asked via his blog for inspiration for props for the forthcoming third series he has just completed. It isn’t because he needs any help or is shamelessly trying to get free stuff but genuinely because he thinks it will be cool to see what people come up with.  My favourite posting so far was a V mask which made me chuckle.  Anyway, as he says on his blog:

How would you like to help in designing the look of series 3? Specifically, you’d be helping us choose the stuff that litters the main set. I’m talking about posters, comics, fanzines, T-shirts… anything you’ve seen in the last few months that you think is pretty cool or captures the spirit of the show or a particular character. By now, most of you know the kind of things I like…weird toys, indie comics, sci-fi, geek references, internet memes, boardgames.I’m sure that a lot of you can come up something or may even have some old review products stuffed in a cupboard somewhere which may be of interest to Graham.  If you do drop him a line, let me know, so I can keep an eye out for what ever you suggest when the next series starts.