There is a war raging in the blogosphere; the war for first place in the Biblioblog rankings.
Being world-famous-in-New-Zealand bloggers and TVNZ One News Anchors…
We are used to putting our heads into the lion’s mouth (or at least Matt is),
I find it better to just tame the lion myself…
Sorry, I took these photos in Wellington last month and had to find a way to work them onto the blog… but I digress… where was I? Ah yes, we have bravely stepped up to bring you the battle report to date:
Intelligence reports claim that former first place holder, Jim West, kamikazied which apparently triggered Biblioblogs into a retreat (Jim’s obituaries and alleged sightings can be read here).
[Self-proclaimed] General John W. Loftus claimed victory at Debunking Christianity – see “Loftus Single Handedly Shut Down the Biblioblogger List! 😉” Not to be defeated so easily, the resistance kept the flames burning and launched a counter attack in the form of a shadow report.
When the dust settled Joel Watts of The Church of Jesus Christ found himself as the new leader. Wanting to put distance between himself and his closest rival, Jeremy Thompson of the Free Old Testament Audio Website Blog, who was already firing shots (and because no one ever expects an attack from down-under) Joel [codename “Polycarp”] recruited MandM [codename “Dr & Mrs F”].
(We had just happened to stumble onto the battle field at a timely moment and since our own Alexa ranking of 181, 184 [176,529 this morning] places us firmly in the middle of the two adversaries, who have Alexa scores of 86,056 and 244,876 respectively, this gives us the potential to debut as the number 2 Biblioblog.)
However, our tale does not end here. Before we’d even been officially issued with our Biblioblog uniforms, Polycarp began his offensive against Jeremy using us as cannon fodder.
The blog-battle was brutal – so brutal – but the results of the catapult attack, particularly, must be seen here on this blog if nothing but to serve as a warning to others…
UPDATE:
It appears that Jeremy has surrendered (but not very gracefully) – see: Joel is Unpatriotic and Hates God and Animals.
UPDATE 2:
John W. Loftus seems to be running a counter campaign of his own (perhaps he is living in a world of his own – who can tell?). At 01:36am (NZ time) 4 Jan 10, General Loftus emailed this blog with the words “Hey congrats on the Alexa rankings,” but it appears this was a false truce on his part as he was spotted here, in an apparently deluded state, refusing to put down his sword:
John W. Loftus said…
- Madeline they used the wrong numbers my Alexa rank for the month was 163,446. I actually came in 3rd place. Right now it’s 157,735.
- 7:29 AM, January 03, 2010
- John W. Loftus said…
- For the last 7 days it’s 77,570.
- 7:30 AM, January 03, 2010
Alexa Headquarters can end this dispute – as of 12:29pm (NZ Time) 4 Jan 10:
MandM’s Alexa Stats: 176,529
Debunking Christianity’s Alexa Stats: 231,725
Tags: Alexa · Biblioblog · Blog Rankings · Humour · Jeremy Thompson · Jim West · Joel Watts · Polycarp16 Comments
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Surrender? Who said anything about surrender. I’m just getting started. Joel didn’t take it as surrender because he has informed me he intends to return fire. Or, perhaps he orchestrated this here report? ….
Also, to set the record straight the most recent rankings are here: http://kolhaadam.wordpress.com/2009/12/30/biblioblog-rankings-december/
I wasn’t his closest rival yet. I was just biding my time …
And, as for yourselves, just make sure you don’t end up on the wrong side of this battle 😉 It could get very ugly. My counter-offensive will likely continue later tonight.
Down but not out Jeremy or just trying to lull Joel into a believing he has achieved a ceasefire?
As for us, we’re just guns for hire – we answer to he or she who can give us the most backlinks. It is nothing personal 😉
LOL – I can’t wait to read your next attack!
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These are supposed to be monthly stats and mine as of now are as I say they are. Just recently I decided to gain more by way of stats so it doesn’t even show how the future rankings will be.
Check out my most recent post on this topic if you want to be fully informed about it.
Cheers.
John Loftus wrote: “[my stats] as of now are as I say they are. Just recently I decided to gain more by way of stats so it doesn’t even show how the future rankings will be.”
Reports of Loftus’ delusions are apparently confirmed.
I wonder, if his stats are not grounded in reality but are instead ‘what he says they are’ and given that he plans to ‘gain more in the future’ then why doesn’t he just declare himself to possess Alexa ranking 1 and be done with it? His delusions are clouding his strategic thinking.
😉
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This is the funniest post.
I am happy that you are doing so well. I can’t believe the lion let you sit on him. He looks ferocious! Look what he did to poor Matt! Must be an atheist lion.
Nice job kicking Loftus’ butt. When I started blogging, I had him picked as the benchmark for me to beat, but my Alexa rank is now higher than his.
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Madeleine has always been able to tame lions that would tear other peoples heads off. She has a gift.
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My next two installments:
http://www.freeoldtestamentaudio.com/Blog/New.php/?p=1174
http://www.freeoldtestamentaudio.com/Blog/New.php/?p=1178
Starting to settle into battle mode, one small scale attack at a time. Saving the heavy artillery for just the right moment.
And you said my Hadouken punch was weak!
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Never, ever, underestimate Madeleine ‘Mad’ Flannagan’s hadouken punch …
Say, if and when Matt gets around to it I’d appreciate his take on this argument. The thread is long but you can read just a few comments to get the gist of the later defenses of it.
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Madeleine,
You would have to know Joel quite well to understand the blow struck by the King James Song.
Sure John I’ll take a closer look. At a glance it just looks like a theological version of the cartesian demon or brain in a vat hypothesis which does not give the argument the bite it may appear to have.
I suspect that the argument is assuming that Plantinga’s position is internalist when it is clearly externalist.
However, I have not read it in detail or looked at the comments as you suggested so I will hold off for now and have a closer look when I am through my current batch of work in progress.
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Madeleine Off Camera…
Madeleine fancies herself a news reporter with a mean hand okay punch (or whatever), but here’s what she’s really like off camera. Had to have a hair color change and a move after this one….
wow do you need to update this or what?!?!?! i’m #1 and have been for months. and no one else is even close. we call that a blowout!
Rumours of your demise were premature (again) Jim.
One thing remains correct though, MandM still outranks Debunking Christianity 😉
And as for not even close? Keep thinking that 😉
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