A Great Blogging Month

As many of you have, I suspect, noticed, I am no longer blogging on Fridays. My schedule had been five days a week and now its down to four days a week. But I decided today to not write an article (which I am now writing) because so many people are away today and I have already had such a great month in terms of traffic, and most importantly, its nice to have an additional excuse to take a day off. That led me to the thought that I should do a "state of the blog" post, which this is.

I started this blog on January 2nd 2008. My goal was to get maybe a few hundred readers. I really had no idea anyone at all would be interested in anything I had to say.  The growth of the audience has been, and continues to be far ahead of my expectations. A few statistics for the first 8 months of this year:

• The growth has been steady, and, unless the Internet shuts down, 50,000+ visitors for August.
• 1398 feed subscribers.
• Technorati say authority is 399 which puts means an overall rank of 8990, or in their top 10k blogs
  
• The blog regularly hits Hacker News and occasionally hits Reddit.
• Its been linked to by ReadWriteWeb,  GigaOM and lots of other great blogs.
  
• It is regularly syndicated at Silicon Alley Insider and CenterNetworks .
• It occasionally hits TechMeme, though not yet their leaderboard.
  

The bottom line is this blog, which I started as a lark with a silly, ironic, tongue-in-cheek name has become a relevant, if not huge part of the discussion. I want to thank you, my loyal readers, for hanging out here.