In a little under two months Every Pop-up Must Span a Gully became the all time third most viewed post on Econospeak, racking up nearly 15 thousand views. Meanwhile the only comment on the post was from me, asking why there were no comments on the post if it was so heavily viewed. Then, on October 1 at 9 A.M. (12:00 A.M. Beijing time) viewership screeched to a halt. From highs of over 600 views a day, it receded to views of 8 or 11.
What happened? The statistical information provided by blogger is only helpful in a negative sense. It shows that most of the views for Econospeak as a whole were referred by "other." Aside from the raw numbers of views, it doesn't give any detailed information for individual posts. The blog statistics showed a majority of views from the United States but also a considerable percentage also from China, Hong Kong, and Singapore. My guess is that a Chinese search engine featured my post for a while -- possibly because of the graphic -- and then dropped it on October 1.
This is also a reflection of the "subsumption" of blog labour by search engine and artificial intelligence algorithm "capital." People may be the ultimate audience for the blog content, although that is not certain. But it is the intermediate audience of algorithms that determines whether more than a small circle of friends views the content.
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