I Hate You All

Nice one, guys. Seriously.

You’ve all just cost me a shit­load of money. Once again, I’ve been forced to hand over more cash to upgrade my web hosting pack­ages, due to the blog’s pre­cip­itous, yet per­fectly pre­dict­able peak in popularity.

“Would you like to host a blog?”

I suppose you aren’t the only ones to blame. If my logical, well thought out, excel­lently artic­u­lated ideas and opin­ions require upgrading the infra­struc­ture neces­sary to pipe them to the masses, I suppose I’m at fault too, if only a little bit. If I was wrong about some­thing just a frac­tion of the time, or I was a tiny bit less modest, then maybe I could have kept the money for that death ray I’ve had my eye on.

Actu­ally, running out of band­width timed rather nicely with my JWH-​​018 Tox­ic­o­logy write-​​up receiving over 100 mostly sens­ible com­ments. Neither is worth writing about on its own, but both things hap­pening within a few days of each other prac­tic­ally forced me to write a bit of an update post.  So here’s a graph, some stats, and a few mediocre blog-​​related achievements:

Here’s the site’s traffic for every month since time began (I cer­tainly can’t remember a time before Syn​chronium​.net, and neither can you) to the end of January 2010. No actual numbers, but that’s some nice growth.

Sexy Statistics:

• We’ve written 87 posts between us
• Posts have rated 235 times with an average of score of 4.55
• There are 714 com­ments approved so far
• 9,178 spam com­ments have been dealt with
• Tim is our top com­ment­ator, closely fol­lowed by MauiGreenDragon
• Jo’s Hash Brownie Recipe has been viewed just over 100,000 times
• My first post has only had 27 views to date
• There are almost 10,000 links pointing to this site

Awesome Achievements

I’ve somehow con­vinced people that I know what I’m talking about

Thanks to my recent mephed­rone cov­erage, I’ve given inter­views and/​or helped with research on the subject for BBC Radio, Drug­Scope and AOL, as well as a handful of smaller things like local or uni­ver­sity news­pa­pers or local radio sta­tions. We also had the priv­ilege of telling Jeremy Kyle to fuck off when he wanted to inter­view us for some (pre­sum­ably ter­rible) legal highs “documentary”.

People keep nicking my shit

A lot of people have repub­lished art­icles and images on their site without asking or linking back — the bas­tards. It seemed that every dick­head research chem­ical vendor who set up shop recently in an attempt to get rich quick has used my rather snazzy chem­ical struc­ture images, and I’ve read more copied blog posts than I care to count. While def­in­itely annoying, it’s also pretty cool to have created some­thing worth nicking. One blog even had my entire RSS feed running down the right hand side for a while, but that was great, since each item linked back here mul­tiple times. Which brings me onto…

People keep “licensing my content”

That’s basic­ally the same as the above, but they ask me first and link back to the ori­ginal article. (If you’re plan­ning on nicking my shit, ask me first!)

We’ve stood up for the industry and drug­gies everywhere

Since Jo’s review on the second worst doc­u­mentary ever made, Can I Get High Legally (the recent Horizon about infinity has to be the worst), we’ve pub­lished the views of a couple of inter­viewees, which tell a com­pletely dif­ferent story. Journ­al­ists occa­sion­ally mention that review when they get in touch, agreeing with us, or using that as an example of what they’re not trying to do. Are they trying to earn our trust? Maybe. I think the real reason is that my “Internet powers” scare the shit out of them. Well, maybe not.

We’ve had some inter­esting results in Google

First off, we imme­di­ately began to rank number one when searching for “syn­chronium”, above Syn​chronium​.com, which has been there since 2004. Funnily enough, that guy prob­ably gets more traffic now than ever, since no one ever actu­ally searched for “syn­chronium” before this site came along.

Google Image Search is where all the fun is at though. At one point, our picture of Neal’s Yard Rem­edies super­im­posed with a giant rubber duck was on the first page of results for their name, but not any more. When you search for Daniel Siebert (“the salvia guy”), near the top is a picture of Kenny G, thanks to this post. Finally, Mephed­rone Cat has shown his cheeky little face on the first page of results when searching for “mephedrone”.

If things con­tinue like this, I reckon I’ll be king of the Internet in approx­im­ately 4 years.  Thanks to all of you for participating!

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