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Bad Traffic

James Joyner · Friday, June 18, 2004 · 5 comments

Sadly, my first confirmation of the beheading came from SiteMeter. All of a sudden, my traffic went from brisk to phenomenal.

I’d have preferred to remain at brisk.

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James Joyner is Professor and Department Head of Security Studies at Marine Corps University's Command and Staff College and a nonresident senior fellow at the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security at the Atlantic Council. He's a former Army officer and Desert Storm vet. Views expressed here are his own. Follow James on Twitter @DrJJoyner.

mhking says:

Friday, June 18, 2004 at 14:59

Site Meter says I’ve just blown through my high water mark for the past three weeks within the last ten minutes or so, and there’s no top-out in sight yet.

I want hits; hell, we all do. But this is not quite what any of had in mind…
joy says:

Friday, June 18, 2004 at 15:02

Drudge just put a pic of the beheading on his front page (at least when I checked a minute ago at 3pm EDT). Suffice it to say that I did not want to see that at all.
mhking says:

Friday, June 18, 2004 at 15:11

Thanks for the heads up. I’m at work, so I’d rather not have that on my screen, if you know what I mean.
Backcountry Conservative says:

Friday, June 18, 2004 at 14:08

Another Beheading Video?
Steven Taylor reports that MSNBC and CNN are saying Paul Johnson has been beheaded, per al Arabiya. UP
The Galvin Opinion says:

Friday, June 18, 2004 at 14:53

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