It’s (not) about the numbers, is(n’t) it?
When I wanted to write the second part of my holiday journal, I’ve noticed it would be the blog entry #100. Therefore I would be nice to look back first.
My blog officially started at Sep 17th 2008, but it wasn’t before October that I really started to blog. I wanted to write down stuff about my geocaching adventures. It hanged by a thread whether I would blog after all. Since I had not many response on my grumpy old man blog – with rantings on environmental issues – I had the feeling I was talking to the walls as we tend to say in Flanders. Craig Cmehil mentions in his Friday Morning Report that he blogs for himself, but I guess he would like to have an audience (at least as nice to have). Anyway, I mustered up my courage and started to blog.
Despite the growing success of geocaching, this blog is for a niche public and than only a part of that is interested in my twaddle. Despite that I can’t say that I’m unhappy about the result:
- 4,561 views
- Growing views / month with July 2009 as top month with 887 views
- Average views / day is about 25-30 with 233 on July 5th (more on in the next paragraph)
- Top countries are Belgium, US and UK
- 89 comments. That includes my replies, so take 40ish comments
- 61 (blocked) spam comments
- Top entries are Overpowered or underpowered?, Geoscout and Transl8
The top post isn’t a surprise to me. It’s a rather controversial post about the outage of gc.com on July 4th. Despite being a popular post – people seems to like controversial stuff – the US public didn’t enjoy my vision on it. On the other hand I got several positive comments from Belgium. I guess the ocean is sometimes a bit deep.
I would say many thanks and I would like to invite you to share what you (dis)like, want to approve, being added, discarded, etc. Any comments are welcome. I will try my best to reckon with it.
