Stock photo, blog post by John HoffMy post last month about the Hennepin County Jail Roster--how the portion of the website with the suspect home addresses apparently does not get picked up in search engines, and you have to know your way around the jail roster to make the addresses pop up--got an unexpected amount of reader traffic even though it was the literary equivalent of writing a phone book.
But, surprisingly, that initial "jail roster post" has been the most popular post on my blog, surpassing even the "Chicken Wing Flavors" post which gets more traffic than anything else in a fairly mysterious manner, coming up number one on Google in THE ENTIRE WORLD when somebody searches "chicken wing flavors." Go figure. But I digress. Probably because the thought of spicy, saucy, delicious and amazingly multi-flavored chicken wings is so...
OK, never mind. Back to the jail roster.
At least one mainstream journalist doing a story about a suspect named Jamal Gray contacted me by email in regard to that post, and I replicated the email and posted it in the comments section. The comments section also contains a valuable discussion about falsehoods and inconsistencies which are somehow in the roster...
But, surprisingly, that initial "jail roster post" has been the most popular post on my blog, surpassing even the "Chicken Wing Flavors" post which gets more traffic than anything else in a fairly mysterious manner, coming up number one on Google in THE ENTIRE WORLD when somebody searches "chicken wing flavors." Go figure. But I digress. Probably because the thought of spicy, saucy, delicious and amazingly multi-flavored chicken wings is so...
OK, never mind. Back to the jail roster.
At least one mainstream journalist doing a story about a suspect named Jamal Gray contacted me by email in regard to that post, and I replicated the email and posted it in the comments section. The comments section also contains a valuable discussion about falsehoods and inconsistencies which are somehow in the roster...
