A few weeks ago, when I was feeling particularly nerdy and obsessive, I looked up the analysis of this website and found that I had readers in all the American states except one – Vermont. It spurred me into action and I started reading and writing about Vermont. One of the things that I found out was that it was a major producer of marble, the biggest in the States, and when I went on holiday to the Greek island of Paros, also a marble centre, I was equipped with a surprizingly wide range of information about marble cutting even though I never got round to writing about the Vermont marble industry…..maybe one day.
After a week of Vermont-related issues, Vermont readers came flooding in ( I now have eleven readers!) and, opening a bottle of virtual champagne, I can now celebrate having followers in every American state. So here’s a toast to the citizens of America…..thanks for tuning in.
I was in a similar mood of obsessive list-making yesterday so I have compiled a top 51 (well I included District of Columbia as a state) in order of numbers of readers. A big, nay gigantic, vote of thanks to the people of New York, California and Pensylvannia who top the poll overwhelmingly but I would also like to say a personal “hi!” to my one reader in North Dakota…thanks for being different!
Hmmm……I need to look into North Dakota.
So here is the list….and all you people included within it, you are more than statistics to me:
1. New York
2. California
3. Pennsylvania
4. North Carolina
5. Florida
6. Massachusetts
7. Oregon
8. New Jersey
9. Texas
10. Illinois
11. Virginia
12. Georgia
13. Arizona
14. Colorado
15. Maryland
16. Ohio
17. Tennessee
18. Michigan
19. Washington
20. Minnesota
21. Missouri
22. Connecticut
23. New Hampshire
24. Kansas
25. Indiana
26. Wisconsin
27. Vermont
28. Kentucky
29. Nebraska
30. New Mexico
31. Alabama
32. District of Columbia
33. Utah
34. Oklahoma
35. Nevada
36. Louisiana
37. South Carolina
38. Rhode Island
39. Idaho
40. Mississippi
41. Maine
42. Arkansas
43. Iowa
44. South Dakota
45. Hawaii
46. Montana
47. Delaware
48. Wyoming
49. West Virginia
50. Alaska
51. North Dakota
The United States comes second (after my homeland in the United Kingdom) in the top twenty out of 95 wolfiewolfgang-reading countries world-wide. I am with Thomas Paine though and think of us all as “Citizens of the World” and I feel honoured to have you all here.
1. United Kingdom
2. United States
3. Hungary
4. Germany
5. Canada
6. Denmark
7. Australia
8. France
9. India
10. Italy
11. Netherlands
12. Czech Republic
13. Austria
14. Sweden
15. Brazil
16. Poland
17. Ireland
18. Spain
19. Norway
20. Greece
So thanks everyone…..I will publish the whole list when I reach the magic 100 nations moment – just 5 to go. In the meanwhile here is a little song to celebrate:
curious that both prime ministers turned to mandelson for help
what did you make of frank field saying don't let mrs rochester out of the attic?
Woops….we are on the wrong blog but who cares!
I think the Frank Field remark said more about him than Mandelson…..he has carried a whole load of resentment on his back for a long time now.