Things are so busy these days, I forgot to notice I have been doing this for a year. It’s been a year since I first posted with what has become my regular schtick: Half complaining about the City, while also giving them kudos.
1 year
139 posts (~one every 2.5 days)
13,000 all-time hits (including, I suspect, 6,500 by my Mom)
1,500 average monthly hits for last few months.
All-time most-read post: “on being visionary”.
O.K., when it comes to bandwidth and net presence, this is clearly not CNN, or even DrunkCyclist, but 40-50 hits a day is more than I should probably expect, as my target market is pretty tiny, I tend to blather on about the same crap, day-in and day-out, my marketing is non-existent, and anyone on the web in New West really should be spending their time over at 10ttF, where much more useful discussions ensue, and there is less profanity and fewer unending run-on sentences like this one.
However, going in, the purpose of this blog was to give me some practice writing, which I clearly need. I still start too many sentences with conjunctions, and end too many with prepositions. This has also forced me to bring my ideas and thoughts out in to open, which hopefully causes me to reason them through a little more, and hopefully learn from your criticism. This goes for my political ideas about the City, and my ideas about what it means to be an “environmental scientist”, when so much of the rhetoric around environmentalism (for and against) lacks scientific rigor. It also helps keep my spleen vented, and all the money I raise through it will go directly to my political campaign.
Clearly, I still need these things, so onward to Year 2. And thanks, Mom, for coming by.
Finally, for those who have come this far, I thought I would provide a rare glimpse into the process. Here is a brief behind-the-scenes view in the Green New West Headquarters, with me at my creative best…
Congratulations.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2011/10/04/cellphone-calls.html
Happy Bday GRN NW!
Many Happy ‘s
should have read:
Many Happy RTN’s
(darn ctl chars)
Thanks, Anon,
I’ll one-up you on that link.
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2011/06/the_bride_of_the_son_of_the_revenge_of_c.php