about the light on the 97 radio story
with the recent media attention, i thought it would be an interesting exercise to see just how much light had been shed on the 97 radio story from this little blog.
as you might recall, this all started with a friend of mine asking for an opinion. a few minutes of critical analysis and hard thinking later, i had an opinion. given the powers of amazing modern technology, i realized that someone else out there might also benefit from that opinion… and a blog post was born. there isn’t a lot of traffic on the meta-roj blog, but there is some amazing googlejuice.
well, all that was back in january. since then, the thread here has developed more than 50 comments, despite my no-doubt-scaring-people-away anti-comment-spam policy. for this tiny little corner of the web, that’s a big deal. more importantly is the kind of people that have found their way here – particularly john foxworthy. he was on this case long before i caught wind of it – he had the backstory, and came forward here to share it.
if it’s not painfully obvious, i have zero tolerance for parasites – particularly if they prey on me or people i care about. those that prey on the arts hurt everyone, those that prey on the net hurt everyone, and those that flaunt the judicial system that should protect us hurt everyone – these are measures of society. unfortunately, the world is full of such people. this space will always be available to shed some light on them.
the most i could offer was an opinion – hopefully useful, but still just an opinion. since then the post has served as a nexus of sorts, and the facts of the situation have percolated up.
conveniently, i do keep the logs. there are a number of principals involved in the story, so there are a lot of ways people might wander into the story. since then, we’ve had more than 1200 “direct hits” on the 97 radio post. so, just for fun… here’s some breakdown of search-engine queries that got people here…
deftone records: 163
97radio: 139
97 radio: 105
97 radio scam: 96
talent2k: 26
97 radio spring break tour: 17
john foxworthy 97 radio
john foxworthy: 9
carlo oddo: 9
97 radio phoenix: 8
97 radio promotion: 7
carlo k oddo: 7
97 radio promotions phoenix az: 5
97 radio spring break: 5
97 radio john foxworthy: 5
talent 2k: 5
97 radio sun city az: 5
jeff foxworthy 97 radio: 5 [heh. sorry john…]
… and some others. anyway, that’s how some of you found your way here. not all of these searches came through google, but for the sake of providing a link, google got the nod.
odd, however, that google’s found nobody but me linking to the post. that’s a lot of traffic for an isolated little blog.
anyway, i thought some of you might find that interesting. now i need to get back to breaking apart poker chips (don’t ask). thanks to everyone that’s come in; i hope it’s saved some of you some heartache and dollars.