This is almost certainly the last post I’ll get done before the weekend so I may as well wrap up on a high.
Come Monday, this blog will be 2 years old and a lot has changed in that period. First some stats:
- 2,199 blog posts (for some reason WordPress thinks it is 2,350 and while I have deleted a few in draft stage plus the odd duplicated item, it sure as heck isn’t 10%)
- 4,013 blog comments
- 166,205 spam comments
- 242,143 direct page views (ex-RSS)
- 758 daily RSS subscribers, averaging something around 1,100-1,200 folks a day turning up one way or the other.
The site has been through at least four design iterations and the current one is the most long lived having survived since January 1st, 2007. It has a global audience with roughly 40% UK, 35% US and the rest spread among at least 25 other countries.
Personally?
- I’ve been privileged to meet some of the nicest, smartest, most generous people I have ever known. I’ve met a lot more people ‘virtually.’ It is a surprisingly kind world out there.
- I’ve learned an enormous amount of new ‘stuff’ along the way, a lot of which I’ve been able to put into direct practice with clients. I continue to learn.
- In the early days, I was obsessed with traffic, now I don’t worry too much. The people who are supposed to turn up do so.
- A lot of ‘old’ things haven’t changed and provide plenty of fuel with which to support the little guy battling against ‘the man.’
- This blog has gone from being a personal ‘rant and rave’ place to one that not only gives me pleasure but has become a modest revenue generator in its own right.
- As a direct result of this blog I am now a part owner in a start up, have a gig at ZD Net, am engaged on a massive project I wish I could talk about but can’t and am regularly invited to vendor briefings and events.
- In many ways it feels like ‘the old days’ as a hack except that this time around I’m my own publisher – which is a bizarre sensation.
- I have a few regrets but nearly all are about the way I’ve said something rather than making totally embarrassing cock-ups.
- And for those that inquire – yes – I do sleep. Spanish siesta works well for me.
Bottom line: I’m having the time of my life.
Thanks all for coming by. Let’s keep the conversations going.
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