Blog Network Watch posted visitor stats for Shiny Media, saying the network boasted a total of 2.3 million people visiting its websites in the month of November.

Our network of websites hosted a total of 2.56 million people for the same period. Keep in mind that our network includes both blogs and non-blog sites. And this figure only includes visitors downloading our webpages. It doesn't include people who subscribe to our RSS feeds.

But kudos to Shiny Media for growing that quickly in just a span of more than 3 years. By comparison, our oldest website was launched nearly 10 years ago. The people at Shiny Media have figured it out!

According to Kineda's blogebrity calculator, I'm an A-list blogger, by virtue of our Strange New Products blog.

Though, I'm a B-list blogger on some other of our blogs, and a C-list blogger on yet others.

I'm still listed as a C-list blogger on Blogebrity.com (Johnson, Steve), but for DoggieNews.

Kineda's blogebrity calculator is simply a measurement of how many other blogs have linked to your blog within a specific time frame. Blogebrity.com's list is human-edited based on gut-feel, though I'm not sure they're still maintaining it.

But the truth is that if I were to show up at a blog convention, or a blog party, no one would recognize me. In fact, no one really blogs about me by name, rather they refer to me by my blog, "Strange New Products". I'm not really sure that makes me an A-list blogger.

We're changing the focus of our real estate blog from general real estate news, to real estate technology, more specifically, as it relates to using the Internet.

A few reasons caused us to make this change...

1. There are already several blogs on the real estate industry, and all of them excruciatingly boring. We think all people love high-tech, and we're guessing that real estate professionals love high-tech real estate stuff.

2. Real estate agents and brokers using blogs to market their services and properties is really hot right now. We want to use our real estate blog to help them blog better.

3. We need a specific angle to brand ourselves with. As it is now, our real estate blog was not much different than the other hundreds of real estate blogs. So, this will help differentiate us from the rest.

The past few days I became involved in an e-mail thread with an elementary school teacher.

The teacher contacted me via e-mail because he was appalled with a Marvel comic book that was distributed to students, and claimed that we had someting to do with it.

He said that the comic book contained some very questionable content that he felt was not suitable to children. I explained that we don't have anything to do with comic books. We don't publish them, or contribute to them, or partner with them, or anything.

He replied back that we had a large advertisement on the back page of this comic book.

I replied back that we never bought advertising on any comic book. I asked him to verify that the ad has our company name on it, "Clear Digital Media, Inc.".

He responded back that it did not. It was actually an ad for Bubblicious bubble gum. He said that he had searched for "bubblicious" on Google, and found their website and contacted them to complain. Somehow, he got me.

The only thing I can think of is that last January we published an article on Junk Food Blog, one of our websites, about a new product called, "Bubblicious Bursts". On that site, we mostly write about new candies and snack foods. What I think happened is that this teacher found our article, and though he found Bubblicious' corporate website.

If that's the case, it's not anything unfamiliar. We are often contacted by small stores wanting to purchase products from us. We tell them that we don't sell or produce these products. We simply publish product announcements.

It goes to show that there are still a lot of people who don't spend much time online, and don't even know what blogs are.