There's nothing 'social' about social media

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This correspondent has long been a fan of Trevor Cook. His insights into PR, politics and the general business world have been of value to me in my own life.

Many moons ago I joked that one day I’d overtake him in the subscriber numbers — a joke because he has better content that is of more interest to more people than I do.

But a glance today at our respective Feedburner subscriber numbers (as displayed on our blogs) caused me a little flutter

Yeah right - 'a glance' - I know you monitor these comparisons on a daily basis. Not that I'm concerned, competiton yeah bring it on I say. But seriously, my friend and collaborator, I'm glad to see you doing so well. Well not that glad. As Gore Vidal said: "Everytime one of my friends succeeds another little piece of me dies". But really seriously a rising tide floats all boats I believe and I wish there were a dozen Aussie bloggers in our general area of professional expertise with four-figure feedburner counts. That would mean that the cause we champion was getting a lot more airplay in the Australian corporate world then it currently is.

Comments

[Lee Hopkins]

Thank you, my friend!

Of course, the funny thing is that after asking for one more subscriber, the next day my subs plummeted to 922!

I should have kept my big mouth shut!! {grin}

[Lee Hopkins]

I just checked my stats -- today I'm 822 {laughing even harder!)

[Trevor Cook]

Same thing happened to me after I boasted about topping 1,000 for the first time. If you were paranoid you would suspect human intervention!