Further to the little Xmas blog-quizlet, I can report that the 2024 C@W top five countries-of-readership, as given by google-stats, are as follows, in descending order:
- Hong Kong
- China
- USA
- Singapore
- UK
I gave you a clue which was that the BTL ecosystem isn't at all representative (unless most of you live in HK, I suppose - and I know for sure that's not the case for several of our friends).
We had some pretty left-field suggestions: Belarus, North Korea & Yemen, to be precise. But there's a clear winner, and it's Caesar H, with China / USA / UK / Russia / Belarus. Hon mensh to Matt who also got three countries correctly from the top five, but not so accurately ordered. Russia, BTW, = #6 (revised ranking), reinforcing both the above awards as it featured in both their lists.
ND
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No adjustments made on account of VPN use ?
Suggestions?
The geo-political musings here clearly have wide appeal around the world.
Not quite sure what to make of these numbers; so 800k pa is either 2k each day, or on the order of 8k per post, assuming two a week.
Which, if I'm being honest, doesn't strike me as being particularly high. Respectable, decent, I guess.
Given the country/origin ranks, well, there's an awful lot of Chinee, but using the 8k per post, there'd be what? 2~3k per post?
Don't know, but something just seems off, somehow.
OT, but again I see the genius of the last Tory administration's immigration free-for-all, plus their determined stand against the British economy - sorry, I mean Russia's cheap energy/unprovoked invasion - in today's business news.
PMI well down in the EU and Britain, but worse in the EU. But house prices are up again !
Tim Morgan was right:
"Ultimately, the economy is an energy system, not a monetary one. From this, it follows that we need to think in terms of two economies, not one – a ‘real’ economy of work, energy, resources, goods and services, and a parallel, ‘financial’ economy of money and debt. These two economies have parted company, allowing the financial economy to pile up promises that the real economy cannot meet"
That's not quite the dynamic, AC, even though of course your numbers are right on average. What tends to happen is much more volatile. Around one day after publishing, numbers for a particular post will suddenly boom somewhere - 'viral' would be too strong a word, but a very big uptick. It's usually in a particular country (and not always the one that might be suggested from the text: we've never written anything on Brazil, e.g., but we've had some big numbers from there a couple of times).
After the big uptick, there's then a tail in that country, which fades to insignificant after ~ 5 days or so. Then the cycle goes round again.
This pattern is partly why I don't see it as bot-driven, although I could believe it is bot-amplified. I imagine it's more like, some fairly widely-connected and wide-ranging human blog viewer ('influencer'?) takes a fancy to something and links it to their followers & friends, who take a peek, forward it to a few more, come back a couple of times over the following days, then move on to the next transient thing their butterfly-minds light upon
BYD are advertising Seal hybrids (on billboards near airports) in the UK at 33k, though this link seems to be very slow loading
https://www.byd.com/uk/hybrid-cars/seal-u-dm-i
Strange thing is, hardly anyone bought cheap Chinese motorbikes when they came out, I'm a cheapskate but would never touch one, though I rode Brazilian Hondas. Yet they're selling vans and cars.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/china-completes-full-pipeline-power-of-siberia-gas-2024-12-02/
"China has built and connected the 5,111-km (3,175-mile) Power-of-Siberia pipeline to deliver gas from Russia's Siberian fields to users as far as the financial hub of Shanghai, Chinese state media reported on Monday. The completion will allow the project to reach its full annual designed capacity of 38 billion cubic meters in 2025, roughly 9% of China's consumption this year. Chinese builders added the last section, a 167-km line from Nantong to Luzhi in the eastern province of Jiangsu, around mid-November, completing the massive project seven months ahead of schedule."
38bn is a lot but doesn't by any means replace the 140bcm that Russia delivered to the EU in 2020.
That feels about right, ND. I'm guessing that certain topics play well in certain jurisdictions.
Slightly surprised that India doesn't appear; there's a lot of them as well.
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