I found one of the most intersting aspects of blogging is the statistical data you get on your visitors. What we get at blog.co.uk isn't fantastic, but we do at least get total mumber of unique views and total page views for each day. Yesterday's were the worst figures for a while - even for days when I didn't post any new content.
That's right, when I write nothing more people read my blog than when I write about Cambodia. In fact the original blog entry I linked to yesterday also got very low viewing figures.
Considering that you have to click through to the blog entry to see more than the title and the first few words, I assume the problem was with the subject matter, not the content (granted that might have been a problem had anyone actually clicked).
I suspect I'm not alone in this, and that there are some "graveyard subjects" out there that rapidly disappear into obscurity from the moment the "save" button is pressed. Cambodia and the Kmher Rouge would seem to be two of them.
It shows how much skill you need when writing about unpopular and unfashionable subjects. It's like the Andrex puppy. No-one wants to be told about how well Andrex may wipe their bum, and they certainly don't want to see the proof, so the advertiser give you a happy image of a puppy playing with a roll of loo paper, and leaves the rest to your imagination.