Today’s Music to keep me IIiiNnnNsssaAANNnnNeEE – Jimi Hendrix -Spanish Castle Magic

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I’m just so glad I got to see this genius perform!! Still greatly missed.

Amazing first sunset down the Amazon!

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There was something completely magical about a sunset on this huge expanse of river! I was enthralled.

So what makes a post go viral?

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Having put out over 2500 posts in my two years blogging I find it quite interesting to reflect on what has proved most successful in terms of number of views and what hasn’t.

there does not seem to be any rhyme of reason to it. You put out a number of similar posts and get the usual number of views and then suddenly one will take off and receive lots of attention. For some reason it seems to capture people’s imagination.

It makes me certain there is a zeitgeist (or some similar mass psychological process) at work.

It is weird.

My most successful blogs in terms of numbers of views have been:

Roy Harper Dissident on trial

Roy Harper – Dissident on trial.

Roy Harper acquitted but where is the justice in this?

Roy Harper is acquitted!! But where is Justice in this? This is not justice! Opher’s views!

Thank you Scotland

Thank you Scotland!

and recently:

Buffy St Marie – Carry it On – Lyrics of defiance with hope.

Buffy St Marie – Carry it On – Lyrics of defiance with hope.

I’m Not Like Everybody Else – Ray Davies and the Kinks – Lyrics and how they impacted.

I’m Not Like Everybody Else – Ray Davies and the Kinks – Lyrics and how they impacted.

Anecdote – Hitching across the Pennines to A Roy Harper gig

Anecdote – Hitching across the Pennines to A Roy Harper gig

By no means were these my best posts but they were all among the best. There was something about them that captured people’s imaginations. They propelled themselves into the stratosphere.

What was that essence that sparked the shamanic zeitgeist and enticed people to check out and pass on that particular post?

Anecdote – Magic first days – something’s at work

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Magical first days!

I do not believe in destiny or fate. I do not believe in superstition. Yet something is going on. Perhaps science will find some neuronal emanations that connect people? Perhaps all humanity is connected in a zeitgeist that joins us all in some mental web? I don’t know. But it takes things like that to explain things sometimes.

My enrolment day at college was one of those events that make you think.

Hundreds of people were being enrolled on tens of different course. It was a big college. I walked into the canteen and it was one huge throng of people all milling around. I stood there looking round. I spied this table with two interesting looking guys sitting at it and made a bee-line towards it. I sat down and introduced myself.

It was Pete Smith and Jules Darker. They were both on my course and we are friends right up until this day!

I don’t know what attracted me. I don’t know what force was at work. I could have gone anywhere. Something compelled me.

There are strange forces at work!

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