It is frequently commented that if a blog post is too long, people won't read it. Well today I posted a blog post that totally defies common wisdom. In total my post is over 7,000 words long (20 printed pages) and took me nearly three very long days to write plus days of reading beforehand. The result has been more traffic to my blog in three hours than my most popular blog entry received in its first two weeks of existence. What's more the comments on other blogs are that it is a must read in all its detail.
The morol is that if you write a post or article that is timely well thought out and well written, people will read it even if it takes them an hour to read. You can see my post at: When science, peer review & independent experts are anything but
It is an analysis of the testimony and background to the Floyd Landis doping hearings (the guy who won last year's Tour de France).
Happy writing.
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