A Wisconsin conservative Christian writes about, well, whatever I feel like
Items in Google ReaderThe WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. It’s not impressive, but, hey, at least there’s something to report…
Here’s an excerpt:
4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 41,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 9 Film Festivals
Turning the lights on, looking around…Wow, it’s a little dusty in here…Well, might as well get started cleaning…
Yeah, I’m still around. It’s not like I’ve not wanted to post. But it takes me so long to do one.
Well, we’ll see what we can do this year. I’ve just gotta get better organized…
In case you haven’t noticed, more and more news sites are limiting the access to their online articles unless you’re an online subscriber in some way. The most notable here in SE Wisconsin is JSOnline, the online presence of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel which limits access to 20 articles per month (This can be “hacked” but I’m not going to tell you how and it is somewhat inconvenient).
They are certainly not the first. The Waukesha Freeman has been doing something similar by limiting which articles you could access and how soon it could be done.
Other web sites that I visit are beginning to do the same thing. The Orlando Sentinel, the Mansfield News Journal, and the LA Times, out of state sites that I go to have recently begun a policy similar to the Journal Sentinel. Others are Gannett newspapers like the Green Bay Press-Gazette, the Appleton Post-Crescent, Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter and Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune.
I don’t blame these sites. It’s their prerogative to do what they wish about their web presence.
My intent is to look at how this affects blogs and bloggers like me who link to news sources.
I could certainly subscribe to these websites and should. But if I link to these sites too much, my readers, less likely to have subscribed to these sites, would go over their limit for free articles.
Of course at the rate I’ve been posting lately, this is unlikely to happen and I can still, if available, link to a similar article on a different site. Even if I posted like I did a few years back, it might not happen.
But it’s still a trend that will continue to impact bloggers like me.
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:
The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.
About 3 million people visit the Taj Mahal every year. This blog was viewed about 39,000 times in 2010. If it were the Taj Mahal, it would take about 5 days for that many people to see it.
In 2010, there were 82 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 1333 posts. There were 16 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 7mb. That’s about a picture per month.
The busiest day of the year was November 1st with 506 views. The most popular post that day was Political Cartoons and Thanksgiving.
The top referring sites in 2010 were [website deleted], playgroundpolitics.blogspot.com, en.wordpress.com, springcitychronicle.com, and bestonlinetravelguide.info.
Some visitors came searching, mostly for political cartoons, thanksgiving, political cartoon, conservative political cartoons, and thanksgiving pictures.
These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.
Political Cartoons and Thanksgiving October 2008
Political cartoons February 2008
Great minds think alike? June 2007
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Five candidates on ballot for Waukesha mayor’s race January 2010
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Cat urine mimics meth? October 2007
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Regular readers may have noticed a subtle shift in the way I’m blogging. There is less of the short “Quick Hit” pieces I used to do. I now do those through Twitter or Google Reader. Feeds of those can be found on the right hand column. Or you can “follow” me either place. Links at either place do not necessarily mean that I agree with all or part of what is said, only that I found it interesting.
Now I’m not saying I’m never doing a quick hits post again. If I have several readings that fit a theme, for example, Wisconsin political stories 2010-06-04 or June 6, 1944 Round-up and thoughts, I will combine those in a post. Others I will shoot to Eggs for his Morning Scramble.
On the blog, posts will tend to be longer with more of my own thoughts on a particular subject.
If you have any questions or suggestions, please do not hesitate to let me know.
