{"id":51,"date":"2008-11-10T23:14:58","date_gmt":"2008-11-11T04:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/2008\/11\/10\/a-question-of-popularity\/"},"modified":"2008-11-10T23:14:58","modified_gmt":"2008-11-11T04:14:58","slug":"a-question-of-popularity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/2008\/11\/10\/a-question-of-popularity\/","title":{"rendered":"A Question of Popularity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It happens that there are 2 baby blanket projects I have done that have<br \/>\neach achieved a level of fame.&nbsp; This was not an intended outcome<br \/>\n&#8212; it just seems to have&#8230; happened.&nbsp;&nbsp; In both cases, the<br \/>\nreceiving baby seems to have enjoyed the blanket, which is all that<br \/>\nmatters.<\/p>\n<p>The first blanket to achieve some level of fame (or notoriety) is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/KnitBot-Yarn-Gallery\/2007-DragonBlanket\/DragonHideBlanket.html\">Dragon<br \/>\nHide<\/a> baby blanket (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/10\/dragon-hide-baby-blanket\/\">previously<br \/>\nblogged<\/a>).&nbsp; I&#8217;ve seen it appear on completely random other<br \/>\npages, and if I look at the stats for my blog\/web pages, I see that it<br \/>\ngets a fair bit of traffic &#8212; probably a hit every couple of days<br \/>\n(which counts as high traffic, for this blog \ud83d\ude09 ).<\/p>\n<p>The second is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/KnitBot-Yarn-Gallery\/2008-TieDye-BabyBlanket\/TieDye-Blanket.html\">Tie-Dye<br \/>\nbaby blanket<\/a>, which I have not previously blogged about, but which<br \/>\nI did log in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/\">Ravelry<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/projects\/ThinkingCat\/doily-with-spiral\">here<\/a>.&nbsp;<br \/>\nFrom Ravelry&#8217;s stats, I can see that it&#8217;s been viewed over a thousand<br \/>\ntimes (which is, approximately, a thousand times more than any of my<br \/>\nother projects \ud83d\ude09 ) and over 200 people have fav&#8217;ed it.<\/p>\n<p>I have no idea whether how to compare those worlds &#8212; the un-Ravelry&#8217;ed<br \/>\nDragon Hide or the un-blogged Tie-Dye baby blanket have each gone off<br \/>\nand struck peoples&#8217; imagination in ways I could not anticipate,<br \/>\nmeasure, or reproduce.&nbsp; I suppose, now that I have done a drive-by<br \/>\nblogging of the Tie-Dye<br \/>\nblanket, I should quickly post the Dragon Hide blanket to Ravelry, to<br \/>\nsee if it captivates anyone there.<\/p>\n<p>Or, not &#8212; see point above about what matters.&nbsp;&nbsp; This is just<br \/>\nidle curiosity, and a matter of checking the heartbeat on the blog \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Good thing I&#8217;m not in the knitting\/design business, I guess!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It happens that there are 2 baby blanket projects I have done that have each achieved a level of fame.&nbsp; This was not an intended outcome &#8212; it just seems to have&#8230; happened.&nbsp;&nbsp; In both cases, the receiving baby seems &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/2008\/11\/10\/a-question-of-popularity\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-knitting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7dQdt-P","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}