How time flies! It’s been fourteen years since my friend and then-co-worker Jon offered me a “blog” on his MovableType website (he also offered me a template that might have been more suitable to a porn site — black and red background, flaming letters in the title, it might even have had an embedded 70s porn music track — but that’s another story). By 2009, my blog was consuming almost all of his monthly bandwidth (yes, kids, back in those days bandwidth wasn’t “too cheap to meter” … it cost money to shift those bits), so I set up my own WordPress installation at HostGator and have been blogging here since then.
Blogs aren’t as relevant today as they were a decade-and-a-half ago — social media in general and Facebook in particular having carved away much of the audience — but for the first time since 2014 my annual traffic went up substantially in 2017 (going from over 1.7 million to 2.44 million — 2,446,311 unique visits according to my WordPress stats page, from a total of 3,619,782 hits). Last year, I mentioned that I’d been adding a minimum of one video per day (in the 2am slot, after the QotD entry scheduled for 1am) and between that and posting links to blog entries on Gab.ai, the spike in traffic seems to indicate it was the right decision.
Earlier anniversary postings:
- Thirteenth anniversary
- Twelfth anniversary
- Eleventh anniversary
- Tenth anniversary
- Ninth anniversary
- Eighth anniversary
- Seventh anniversary
- Sixth anniversary
- (Very belated) Fifth anniversary (this and earlier links at Jon’s old site may not be available, depending on sunspot activity, atmospheric pressure, and RNG)
- (Premature) Fourth anniversary (a few days later, I welcomed my 150,000th visitor)
- Third anniversary
- (Belated) Second anniversary
- First anniversary
Congratulations and much honor to keeping the blog tradition alive!
Comment by steve muhlberger — May 11, 2018 @ 15:41
Thanks! And thanks for contributing your comments.
Comment by Nicholas — May 11, 2018 @ 17:21