400 pageviews/day makes you "influential"?

Some of us are familar with The Deck: an advertising network formed by a loose grouping of pretentious Mac-heads who wanted equally pretentious advertising on their websites, thus maximising the revenue potential gained from their pretentious readers' eyeballs.

I pitched an idea to Long Zheng (and co) to start his own advertising network for "Windows enthusiasts". He put it on the backburner, so did I.

However, today I learned about The Lounge, which is pretty much what I described. The Lounge looks like it started after I pitched my idea to Long, I don't know if he's gone and done a runner with me, but it's nice to know I've got a few good ideas in my head (even if I didn't compelete the race to implement them...)

Anyway, they let advertisers "target" their adverts by applying to advertise on certain websites, one of these is "Influential People", they have 43 blogs in this category (and TBH, I haven't really heard of any of them). According to their statistics they had 490147 pageviews over 43 sites in the last month.

Basic arithmetic tells us that's about 11,398 pageviews per blog per month, which divided by 30 gives 379 pageviews per blog per day. Let's be generous and call that 400.

One would assume by virtue of being influential they would have a high pageview count: this is the Internet, people are free to flock to the source of quality information and not have it relayed to them (via say, aggregate bloggers).

Just for comparison, I get about 7,000 pageviews a day over all of my sites combined, and no-one knows who I am. I also make a pittance from Google AdSense.

Discuss.