Too many degrees of separation.

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On the internet it's certainly possible that a backwater column can have a snowballing effect through which major publications pick up on a story and make it big. That's pretty much what happened with the Drudge Report and the Monica Lewinsky scandal. But although it can definitely happen, I wouldn't count on it happening here. Numerous times, usually after meeting someone I don't know and being told that he or she reads these columns, I've had to recompute my readership, removing a name of someone I thought read them so that I can maintain my proverbial eight readers. Even as I do this, however, I've got to admit that my real readership is perhaps even double that.

But even if I double my readership, I doubt that I'm having much effect on the New York Times or on Newsweek. I run in the wrong circles.

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