Five years of This Side

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    Woo hoo! The blog just passed the five-year mark! Vir­tual cake all around, some fun with stats and some best-of stuff.

    First post was on August 14, 2004. Since then, there have been:

    • 874 posts
    • 2,196 com­ments
    • 4,737 spam com­ments screened out (You’re welcome.)

    And since Jan­u­ary 1, 2007:

    • There have been 31,631 vis­its from 121 countries.
    • Read­er­ship has gone down by 17%(!) What, with stel­lar con­tent like this? That’s just weird!
    • Cur­rently, the site aver­ages 32 vis­its per day
    • High­est num­ber of vis­its was on May 14, 2007 with 184 vis­its (that was for the “Red Pen” post that I list below)
    • 5% have vis­ited over 100 times
    • 4.5% spend 10–30+ minutes.
    • 23% come from Google searches; almost 10% come from Orthodixie. (The check’s in the mail, Fr. Joseph!)

    Here are some of my favorites in a few categories:

    Biggest splash:

    • In the Ortho-blogosphere: If the LDS took a red pen to the Nicene Creed. When Mitt Rom­ney was a can­di­date, there was a lot of mis­in­for­ma­tion going around about what the Mor­mons actu­ally believed. I had done some inves­ti­ga­tion of my own years ago, and thought this for­mat might help elim­i­nate some of the smoke and mirrors.
    • In the reg­u­lar blo­gos­phere: Red state, blue state, me state, you state. After Bush was re-elected ’04, furi­ous Blue Staters seemed to want to tighten the leash. I thought what they needed was a care­fully worded con­tract of their expec­ta­tions for the rest of us. This got picked up on InstaPun­dit and caused an “Insta­lanche” of com­ments, none of which (regret­tably) came over when I got into WordPress.

    Fun­ni­est (to me, any­way): 7 signs the end times begin in 2007.  Thanks to the top-notch prophecy/reporting of a super­mar­ket tabloid, I was able to run down all the events that will lead up to the Sec­ond Com­ing in late 2007. It made it eas­ier to plan vaca­tions, you see.

    Fun­ni­est (to me, again) — polit­i­cal: Had a lit­tle fun with the Bush/Kerry debates HERE and HERE. Already seems like such a long time ago, doesn’t it?

    Favorite adven­ture with dog: It’s like an inter­net of smell. Seemed to me that dogs have their own ver­sion of IM’ing, email, tex­ting and all the rest.

    Favorite draw­ing — To be hon­est, they’re all my favorite, but if I have to pick one: Wildlife sight­ing for an August after­noon. Show­ing how it looked when we saw an owl isn’t my pret­ti­est work, but I was able to cap­ture exactly what it felt like, which is always the best part.

    So there it is. I’ve wasted a LOT of time on the blog and had a LOT of fun. And I think I’ve done more of the lat­ter, so I sup­pose that’s suc­cess, right?


    Related posts:

    1. Alito and pandering
    2. The S-word
    3. Happy Cir­cum­ci­sion Day!
    4. Cou­ple Mon­day observations
    5. Bloggy round-up

    September 3rd, 2009 | Grace | 5 Comments |

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  • s-p 09.03.2009

    Con­grat­u­la­tions and many posts!!

  • Anam Cara

    God grant you many posts!

  • DebD

    Great fun… happy blog anniversary

  • Grace

    I like ‘many posts’ as well-wishing. Of course, quan­tity doesn’t guar­an­tee qual­ity, but oh well.

  • s-p

    Ah, but as Woody Allen told about the two old women eat­ing at a diner…
    “The food here is TERRIBLE!“
    “Yes, and such small por­tions too.“
    Remem­ber, we’re in Amer­ica: More is…more. :)

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