The first reason was to not let the belief that PUMA's just disappeared into the night after the robbery of the 2008 democratic presidential had been constructed by selfish, upper echelon democratic "leaders" such as Harry "I'm spending as fast as I can" Reid and Nancy "the military jets and drinks on the jets are on me" Pelosi.
The second reason for DailyPUMA was to increase the ability for PUMA's, and those who believe Hillary Clinton was not treated fairly by the media and the democratic party, to absorb more news blogging commentary and stories in a shorter period of time while also keeping PUMAs better educated than other political groups.
An added bonus DailyPUMA provides is to be able to "rebroadcast" important puma blog messages along with international aid stories such as the article about portable housing for Haiti. Who knows, maybe one of the hundreds of people who see the headline on DailyPUMA will email it to someone who has the ability to implement the idea.
The third reason for DailyPUMA was for PUMA bloggers who decided to take a break. The moment a PUMA blogger decides to start writing again, the word would get out because their first article would raise their listing to the top of DailyPUMA.
Bloggers sometimes put so much pressure on themselves to come up with new material that if they take a break, their readership can fall off and maybe not recover. When HillBuzz, Texas Darlin (not officially PUMA's but still supportive of Hillary Clinton) and Katalasis took breaks, the moment they started blogging again, DailyPUMA was able to get the word out.
The fourth reason is basically the three reasons above, but for me on a personal level. Yes, I use Daily PUMA for the exact three reasons cited above. DailyPUMA has been a pleasant surprise for me in how absolutely steady story content gets generated and how steady readership has been over the past 14 months.
I sometimes wish we could gain just one new member a day, yet the truth is most blogs start high and slowly lose ground over time, so remaining steady in readership is really an incredible victory. And of course, not everybody checks in everyday, so it actually may take four or five times the viewership to maintain the daily numbers that DailyPUMA does get.
I use Blog Tracker to measure how many hits DailyPUMA gets a day. DailyPUMA is in the top 2.5% to 3% of all blogs tracked by Blog Tracker.
Whenever DailyPUMA seems to get a bit busier, I will sometimes notice a strange rhythm to the hits. DailyPUMA may get 5 unique hits in 8 minutes time, then nothing for 20 minutes, then 5 more hits in 10 minutes time.
It does make me wonder if not all hits are being recorded as a way to try and demoralize me personally, but I can't worry about it nor can I prove it, its just that the counting sometimes looks irregular. But then again, I noticed the same phenomenon during the Kerry Bush race of 2004. I kept seeing Kerry's vote totals move closer to Bush, then suddenly Bush's lead would almost instantly expand by a million or two votes, then Kerry would slowly make up the difference, then blam, Kerry would be down that same larger amount again.
If one could speed up the vote counter that CBS and other stations were using on election night 2004 from all night to lets say 1-2 minutes, one might actually see the suspicious nature of the vote counting totals more easily, but I digress.
It is valuable to me to know that if I have something to write, my audience is significantly bigger than if I were going it alone, and hopefully, if your blog is listed on DailyPUMA, you feel the same way and have experienced a Daily PUMA "bump".
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