{"id":57070,"date":"2020-05-10T03:00:12","date_gmt":"2020-05-10T07:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=57070"},"modified":"2020-05-09T11:23:14","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T15:23:14","slug":"quotulatiousness-at-sixteen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2020\/05\/10\/quotulatiousness-at-sixteen\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Quotulatiousness<\/em> at sixteen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_57071\" style=\"width: 636px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/16th-Anniversary-Freepik.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57071\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/16th-Anniversary-Freepik.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"626\" height=\"626\" class=\"size-full wp-image-57071\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/16th-Anniversary-Freepik.jpg 626w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/16th-Anniversary-Freepik-480x480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/16th-Anniversary-Freepik-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 626px) 100vw, 626px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-57071\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.freepik.com\/free-photos-vectors\/wedding\">Image created by starline &#8211; www.freepik.com<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Blogging may be a stagnant backwater of the internet these days, but some of us have been polluting the pool with our blog posts for a long time &#8230; sixteen years in my particular case. I used to publish annual traffic figures, but the statistics plug-in I had been using since 2009 blew up spectacularly and I no longer have anything like a continuous series to point to. Over the last few years, I was regularly clocking in between one and two million &#8220;hits&#8221; in a year, but a significant portion of those were bots rather than actual human beings. As the years have gone by, I&#8217;ve actually written less and less for the blog, as the effort involved didn&#8217;t seem to generate much interest or reaction (the regular visitors to my comment section are a very small, select, elite crew &#8230; thanks, guys!)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Earlier anniversary postings:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/05\/10\/fifteen-years-of-quotulatiousness\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Fifteenth anniversary<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/05\/10\/fourteenth-blogiversary\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Fourteenth anniversary<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/05\/10\/and-another-blogiversary-rolls-past\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Thirteenth anniversary<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/05\/10\/twelfth-blogiversary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twelfth anniversary<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/05\/10\/it-cant-really-be-eleven-years-already-can-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eleventh anniversary<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/05\/10\/ten-years-of-quotulatiousness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tenth anniversary<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/05\/10\/nine-years-of-blogging\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ninth anniversary<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/05\/10\/eight-years-of-blogging\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eighth anniversary<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/05\/10\/seventh-anniversary-at-quotulatiousness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Seventh anniversary<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/05\/10\/six-years-of-blogging\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sixth anniversary<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Unfortunately, the first five years of postings &mdash; when I was merely a freeloading tenant on Jon P&#8217;s site &#8230; and eventually consuming some 90+% of his paid bandwidth and storage &mdash; don&#8217;t seem to be accessible any more, at least I haven&#8217;t been able to get access for quite some time:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bolditalic.com\/quotulatiousness_archive\/005462.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(Very belated) Fifth anniversary<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bolditalic.com\/quotulatiousness_archive\/004535.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(Premature) Fourth anniversary<\/a> (a few days later, I welcomed my <a href=\"http:\/\/bolditalic.com\/quotulatiousness_archive\/004545.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">150,000th visitor<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bolditalic.com\/quotulatiousness_archive\/003697.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Third anniversary<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bolditalic.com\/quotulatiousness_archive\/002785.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(Belated) Second anniversary<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bolditalic.com\/quotulatiousness_archive\/001333.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">First anniversary<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blogging may be a stagnant backwater of the internet these days, but some of us have been polluting the pool with our blog posts for a long time &#8230; sixteen years in my particular case. 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