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08-03-2024, 23:00
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It’s information overload at the moment, certainly as far asstories from the world of brewing are concerned, but with a common threadrunning through the majority of these announcements (over-capacity, set againsta declining beer market), I’m going to take a step back and ask the question,“What makes a story newsworthy?” I’d be a very rich man if I knew the answer tothat, as it’s the sort of probing question asked by news agencies and mediacorporations across the globe.
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The reason I’m pushing for an answer on this, is partiallydue to a lack of inspiration on my part – basically I’m short of ideas forthings to write about, at the moment, but also because I’m genuinely curious asto why certain stories fall by the wayside, whilst others generate an amount ofinterest that can be totally disproportionate to the topic in question. In mycase the majority of posts are beer, pub or travel related, with the occasionalforay into other topical subjects, including at times politics or otherworld-related events.
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One interesting feature about Blogger, which is Google’sfree, blog-hosting service, are the analytical statistics concerning anindividual’s site, which are available at the click of a mouse. For example,you can look back at the number of page views by post, for now, the last 24hours, the last 7 days, last 30 days, last 3, 6 or 12 months, and even for alltime. It is that last option which is so interesting, especially where one orsometimes two or three individual articles, stand head and shoulders above therest. When you’ve written in excess of 1,700 individual posts it’s fascinatingto see which of that number attracted sufficient page views to top the poll.
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The screenshot at the beginning of the article shows the 10 highest scoring posts,of all time, and as you can see the list is quite a disparate collection ofarticles, with no real common thread running through them. Several are quite controversial, such asTimeto ditch the Good Beer Guide (https://baileysbeerblog.blogspot.com/2012/11/time-to-ditch-good-beer-guide.html), Who Needs Social Media? and most divisive of all,A sparkler is a device which ruins beer. That last post certainly reignited thenorth-south divide, but despite appearing to deliberately court controversy therewas a serious side to it.To date it has attracted 5.9K page views, and 118 comments –although the majority of the latter ones seem to be from Russian bots. It alsocomes in at No. 2 on the list. Attracting one less comment (and no Russianbots), but ending at the bottom of the pile is – Who needs social media? (https://baileysbeerblog.blogspot.com/2018/04/who-needs-social-media.html) Therewas a fair share of controversy running through those comments, but very littlewhen it comes to the out and out winner, Half and half. (https://baileysbeerblog.blogspot.com/2013/02/half-and-half.html)Attracting 12.7K page views,but only 18 comments, I am still at a loss to explain how a relatively innocuouspost, about mixing beers (light & bitter, brown & mild, old &bitter etc), could emerge as top of the pile, with more than twice the pageviews of the runner up.
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It’s information overload at the moment, certainly as far asstories from the world of brewing are concerned, but with a common threadrunning through the majority of these announcements (over-capacity, set againsta declining beer market), I’m going to take a step back and ask the question,“What makes a story newsworthy?” I’d be a very rich man if I knew the answer tothat, as it’s the sort of probing question asked by news agencies and mediacorporations across the globe.
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgepndLLK2CAuc1HGd0lvIOOnbRYQTKkEyOKq8zPnNXbH LDKrUkV1J2b2k4aEWJSHqoMjtw0wsdlpTyi77DB8BRuMdHQhXx et0Gguzczlb7Tlg8XQnXmYL-8X8xmHiDOC3_wxPOyIsDkCMPFkj2ZnuugotUcHuYm7i4XLAqZE xaDYcmERIjJUiMVaR8ELc/w400-h289/Rock%20Ext.jpg (https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgepndLLK2CAuc1HGd0lvIOOnbRYQTKkEyOKq8zPnNXbH LDKrUkV1J2b2k4aEWJSHqoMjtw0wsdlpTyi77DB8BRuMdHQhXx et0Gguzczlb7Tlg8XQnXmYL-8X8xmHiDOC3_wxPOyIsDkCMPFkj2ZnuugotUcHuYm7i4XLAqZE xaDYcmERIjJUiMVaR8ELc/s3349/Rock%20Ext.jpg)
The reason I’m pushing for an answer on this, is partiallydue to a lack of inspiration on my part – basically I’m short of ideas forthings to write about, at the moment, but also because I’m genuinely curious asto why certain stories fall by the wayside, whilst others generate an amount ofinterest that can be totally disproportionate to the topic in question. In mycase the majority of posts are beer, pub or travel related, with the occasionalforay into other topical subjects, including at times politics or otherworld-related events.
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One interesting feature about Blogger, which is Google’sfree, blog-hosting service, are the analytical statistics concerning anindividual’s site, which are available at the click of a mouse. For example,you can look back at the number of page views by post, for now, the last 24hours, the last 7 days, last 30 days, last 3, 6 or 12 months, and even for alltime. It is that last option which is so interesting, especially where one orsometimes two or three individual articles, stand head and shoulders above therest. When you’ve written in excess of 1,700 individual posts it’s fascinatingto see which of that number attracted sufficient page views to top the poll.
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The screenshot at the beginning of the article shows the 10 highest scoring posts,of all time, and as you can see the list is quite a disparate collection ofarticles, with no real common thread running through them. Several are quite controversial, such asTimeto ditch the Good Beer Guide (https://baileysbeerblog.blogspot.com/2012/11/time-to-ditch-good-beer-guide.html), Who Needs Social Media? and most divisive of all,A sparkler is a device which ruins beer. That last post certainly reignited thenorth-south divide, but despite appearing to deliberately court controversy therewas a serious side to it.To date it has attracted 5.9K page views, and 118 comments –although the majority of the latter ones seem to be from Russian bots. It alsocomes in at No. 2 on the list. Attracting one less comment (and no Russianbots), but ending at the bottom of the pile is – Who needs social media? (https://baileysbeerblog.blogspot.com/2018/04/who-needs-social-media.html) Therewas a fair share of controversy running through those comments, but very littlewhen it comes to the out and out winner, Half and half. (https://baileysbeerblog.blogspot.com/2013/02/half-and-half.html)Attracting 12.7K page views,but only 18 comments, I am still at a loss to explain how a relatively innocuouspost, about mixing beers (light & bitter, brown & mild, old &bitter etc), could emerge as top of the pile, with more than twice the pageviews of the runner up.
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