If I say here “Peter Hitchens believes that numbers prove plenty. He also thinks that Twitter is an electronic left-wing mob” , will these words find their way on to the web?
If I say here that “Peter Hitchens says universities should select their students on merit, not in accordance with some egalitarian formula”, will these words find their way on to the web?
By posting these thoughts in this fashion (and readers are of course welcome to comment on them) I am hoping to find out how and why certain things gain prominence on the web, and others do not? Is it, as some say, purely to do with various automated crawlers and codes? Or is there some subjective influence at work, so that mentions of me only get wide circulation when they are, er, unhelpful?
Published on September 14, 2012 07:16