The growing global threat called “The Skirmisher”

The Skirmisher blog, which I’ve started about six months ago, has begun getting some blogosphere respect. And by respect, I mean people — strangers all — linking to whatever delicious crap we write.

Some examples:

Public Eye
Shouting to hear the echoes
Voxefx
Hollywood Jester
Otomano
Karlarlchambault
Binary Sun

and most importantly, Fleshbot

Many people have been asking me important questions like, "Why the hell are you doing this?"

And my answer has always been a singular: "Because I fucking can."

But secretly, I give details of my desire to my fellow "footsoldiers" like Pepe Alas or Tito Escano: I tell them I want us to be the first Filipino bloggers sitting there within Technorati’s World’s Top 100 Blogs. I want to unseat whoever needs to be unseated or dethroned.

The gameplan is simple: continue to be so fascinatingly weird. And brutal. I’d use the erstwhile-fashionable word, "snark," but that’s so…what, 2001?

I specifically avoided linking to my blogging friends because I want to see as objectively as possible how a virtually unknown blog six months ago could gain a loyal, freak-geeky following.

You see, many local bloggers are dying for comments from their friends; but that is unreliable. A commentary community composed of fellow blogging friends doesn’t mean anything; it’s more like "you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours." Blogging friends who leave comments on your blog is actually like saying, "Hey, see my link? Visit my blog next time."

I’ve never liked that. I don’t live for comments, although the Skirmisher has a gradually growing commentary community. And even if most of its posts are devoid of human comments, it doesn’t matter; the blog’s statistics is exponentially growing. This month alone, we’re beginning to hit 30 thousand unique visitors, with page views triple that number. I’m projecting we’ll hit 60 thousand visitors by February. We’ll hit a million unique visitors in 18 months.

God made the Interweb specifically to allow weird, sarcastic nerds kick ass. And to some of those who are on my Friendster list who also happen to write for the Skirmisher, guys, this is our time.

[by the way, if Adamson University had anything to do with your life, the Adamsonian is online. Visit it and sign up and post your stuff; it's completely free.]

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