IN MY SHOES: The USA’s Birthday Is Also The Stiletto Blog’s Birthday!
The Stiletto had been contributing content to various political commentary sites for several years, and decided to strike out on her own on July 4, 2006.
Since that time, The Stiletto Blog has posted more than 1,000 entries (a news round-up, each edition of The Daily Blade averages three posts). The Stiletto also posts on Political Mavens, a sister site of Jewish World Review, and content from The Stiletto Blog has been republished or excerpted on other blogs (and one vlog!), including Amazing Facts, iArarat, CartoonNetworkTelevision.com, Cheat-Seeking Missiles, The Hillary Project, Mickey Kaus/Bloggingheads.tv, PoliticalYard.com, Right Voices and USS Neverdock.
Having the luxury of being able to call it as she sees it - this blog is not owned or published by a large corporate entitity worried about shareholder backlash - The Stiletto has scooped the MSM and other pundits on several occasions, being the first to spot a trend, make a connection between events or find a fresh look at conventional wisdom. Here are 10 examples:
† Home-Grown Muslim Terrorism Discombobulates The Media
† Why The Outcome Of The French Election Matters To Hillary
† Cutting Edge Political Analysis
† Are Muslims Required To Kill To Worship Allah?
† Those Six Imams Are All Terrorists
† CAIR’s Non-Existent "Muslim Backlash"
† No One Has The Right To Board A Plane Wearing A T-Shirt With Arabic Lettering
† Call Yourself Whatever You Want, You’re Either Hispanic Or Not
† Look Who Has The Audacity To Lecture The USA On "Collective Conscience"
† Is This One Of Those Jobs That "Americans Won’t Do?"
These 10 posts got the highest number of pageviews over the past year:
† Are You Man Enough For A Real Woman?
† Hewlett-Packard Spies On Its Own Board Of Directors – And Anyone Who Phoned Them
† Illegal Immigrants Swamping Small Town America
† Global Warming Is In The Eye Of The Beholder
† Calif. Couple Takes In Five Orphans To Get Extreme Home Makeover – Then Kicks Them To The Curb
† Even The Onion Can’t Make This Stuff Up
† Scooter Libby Scorecard
† Republicans: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid
† Boobs And Brains Not Mutually Exclusive
† Iraq Was Supposed To Become Like The USA - But The Reverse Has Happened: Part II
These 10 posts were printed out by readers more often than any others over the past year:
† Calif. Couple Takes In Five Orphans To Get Extreme Home Makeover – Then Kicks Them To The Curb
† When A Patient’s Rights Stop Where A Healthcare Provider’s Rights Begin
† What Freedom Of Religion Means To Muslims
† Global Warming Is In The Eye Of The Beholder
† Scientists Who Refuse To Toe The Line On Global Warming
† When Does A Girl Become A Woman? It Depends.
† The Last One To Pelt Dan Rather Is A Rotten Egg
† CAIR’s Non-Existent "Muslim Backlash"
† Iraq Was Supposed To Become Like The USA - But The Reverse Has Happened: Part II
† Is TSA Trying Hard Enough To Stop Terror In The Sky?
And these are The Stiletto’s 10 personal favorites (OK, she admits it - she cracks herself up sometimes):
† Nike’s Shoedenfreude
† The Five Stages Of Political Correctness
† Manatees Have A Cow Over Losing Endangered Species Classification (second item)
† Candy Is Dandy, But Vodka Is Liquor (third item)
† Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
† A Foreign Language
† Barney Shows His Fangs
† Gitmo Has Become A "Fat Farm"
† The Grapes of Wrath
† Oh, The Avianity! (second item)
When The Stiletto Blog launched, it wasn’t on Google’s radar screen. Today, the blog is at or near the top of the natural search results, ahead of hundreds of thousands of shoe and knife purveyors, other Web sites and blogs with "stiletto" in their names and the occasional porn site (keyword "The Stiletto Blog": #1 of about 1,030,000 English pages; keyword "The Stiletto": #2 of about 2,040,000 English pages; keyword "Stiletto": #16 of about 2,080,000 English pages).
The Stiletto doesn’t completely understand Google’s search algorithms (who does?) but inbound and outbound traffic is a fairly significant factor in natural search ranking. Non-geek speak: It’s you, the readers.
The Stiletto also thanks those who have become subscribers, and those who take the time to contribute their comments (a special thanks to "Qwerty the cucumber," who has offered many a pithy observation).
As The Stiletto Blog begins its second publishing year, The Stiletto hopes that lurkers will become regular readers, readers will become subscribers, and everyone will share their comments with each other. And please tell family, friends, neighbors and co-workers about The Stiletto Blog!
[Addendum: During this first year, The Heel - an Ivy-educated attorney with a prestigious New York firm who has been a protagonist in several posts - became an occasional poster himself. Going forward, The Stiletto will also be asking other smart people with strong convictions to offer analysis and comment on the events of the day.]
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday dear Stiletto
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Happy 1 year anniversary, Stiletto - and to many more years of good and insightful articles! Keep the good work!
Mike Brady
St Louis,MO
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Congratulations and happy birthday to your blog!!!
Aleksey
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Way to go girl! Congrats on your one year anniversary. I think you're an interesting, unique and at times, humorous writer and I enjoy reading your blog.
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At the risk of being redundant: Happy birthday! Your blog is a refreshing antidote to the liberal (Students for a Democratic Foreign Policy - "Get the troops out of Iraq NOW!" - is the most annoying) atmosphere of my alma mater.
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