There’s been a tiny bit of backlash in the blogosphere and in my emails to my 4,000,000 visitor post. Some saying visitors don’t matter. Some saying it does. Some basically saying I should jump off a cliff because there’s no way I get that much traffic and others saying I should get over myself and my huge ego…

I can happily say that I agree completely with all of this. Visitors don’t matter to me, since I write whatever I want to write about (within the confines of the general topics Ensight covers). I write for me. But, visitors do matter. Because I’m human. Because I like to know who my audience is. Because, well, I’m a useless stats whore and I’m proud of it.

Also, I’ll happily concede that I shouldn’t be getting this much traffic. At least to me. But, everytime I say that, a bunch of people yell at me for not giving myself credit. So I won’t say that ;-) But, the reality is that, like it or hate it, I do get that much traffic (I’m approaching my 10,000,000′th pageview… But I won’t mention that either because that’s even more insane).

I guess to folk who don’t know me this kind of thing could sound like patting myself on the back, trying to elivate my status, stroking my ego… I understand how it easily could. But folk who know me know that even when I do crazy stuff… Well, I’m quite happy to talk about it as long as none of the credit comes to me. I’m really not very good at taking compliments, and I’m even worse at effectively stroking my own ego.

So when I talk about this stuff it’s more from a “wow, ain’t that cool” detached kind of frame of mind than a “wow, ain’t I great” involved state of mind.

That’s all I wanted to say about that.