Welcome... Idiotvoxers?

So Catalogue of Ships is #1 on a podcast rating site called Idiotvox which is great (though I still take issue with the fact that they call themselves a "democracy").

However, it's never translated into too many hits for us. Maybe 100 or so a month since we hit the #1 spot. Tonight we got over 400 hits from them.

So my question for anyone who found us through Idiotvox tonight... What's the deal? Did Idiotvox suddenly become really popular or something? Kudos to them, but that is kind of weird.

In other weirdness, there was a very nice interview with us in the Baltimore Sun (circulation approxmiately 300,000) which is also great. However, this interview only translated into three (3) pageviews from the Baltimore area.

So Idiotvox gets us 400 hits. BoingBoing gets us something like 8000 hits. Jay's Best of the Left Podcast gets a couple hundred. My question to you all: what does this say about the main stream media?

This was an article in a major publication with a local circulation on par with the Washington Post. The article had art associated with it (a screenshot of our homepage). And yet, these websites have that much more influence in their cultural recommendations.

Interesting.

Anyway, thanks Idiotvox. Please keep up the good work, but PLEASE stop calling yourselves a democracy. It's offensive.

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