Claymates Set New Record for North County Times

The North County Times published an interview/article (Pop nerd Clay Aiken brings 'Joyful Noise' to San Diego) with/about Clay last week, and boy did they get a response!

The Clay-nation has spoken ---- and how.

Last week I wrote a music feature for Preview on "American Idol" star Clay Aiken, who performed last Friday at the San Diego Civic Theatre. In the interview, I asked Aiken to describe his rabid legion of fans, known as "Claymates," and he hypothesized that there are probably only about 5,000 of them in existence, but they're very vocal.

The article was posted to the North County Times Web site on Nov. 9, and within 48 hours, more than 150 Claymates had posted nearly 20 pages of comments on our site after reading the article. That's the largest response ever received by any article ever published in the North County Times' online edition.