I'm glad that Mr. Phyrillas is excited that his blog has been number one "position on the BlogNetNews.com ranking of Pennsylvania's Most Influential Political Blogs for four consecutive weeks", but I really don't know the real value of that. This blog is also tracked by BNN, and I guess we're being measured by a "variety of data sets to determine which blogs are most powerfully influencing the direction of the Pennsylvania political blogosphere", but I really don't feel any more influential when PSoTD doesn't make the top 20 as when PSoTD cracks the top ten. Links alone don't indicate influence, as search engines and RSS feeds and visitors that don't read are all part of the story, and besides, just because PSoTD is linked doesn't mean it's about anything of influence. Many of the posts here that actually get links are weird items that are found that others find curious, but that's about as far as it goes.
100,000 unique visitors in 18 months, that's something that can be compared as a metric, and congratulations to Mr. Phyrillas for that.