Labnotes is now 1 year and a couple of weeks old. I guess it’s customary to celebrate your blog’s birthday, and most birthday posts seem to talk about statistics. So I’m going to honor the tradition, but do it a bit late, and a bit different.
I wrote 431 posts. Sometimes three times a day, sometimes once a week. In fact, I started the blog to write and I’m proud of that number: it means I’m practicing often enough. In the past few months, nearly half the posts were my daily del.icio.us links, which still count as writing. I often attach a summary with my notes.
More interesting, at least to me, is that the last post is number 556. What happened to the 112? Those are drafts I wrote, and decided not to publish. I do edit a lot.
I approved 550 comments, fended 8,031 pr0n peddlers, and deleted none.
The most commented post is also the one getting the most attention traffic wide. Especially today, it’s getting a surge of activity from StumbleUpon. It’s also the shortest piece of code I released on Labnotes, a ten minute hack that adds more buttons to the WordPress WYSIWYG toolbar.
Trailing behind is the co.mments announcement (before it had its own blog) and the scrAPI toolkit for Ruby. Which just goes to show sometimes the little things have the most impact.
There are 2.27 Firefox to every IE user, less than I expected. What’s wrong with you people? And the biggest link love has been showered by Lesscode, MetaFilter, Reddit, Megite and Microformats in that order. Apparently I’m more of a pundit than a blogger, or maybe people link to ideas more than code.
A year later I got to polish my writing, guest post on other blogs, hone my sarcasm, create and publish some amazing pieces of code, lose sleep over setup woes, and best of all meet a few cool people I wouldn’t otherwise know.
Here’s to another year of blogging.
Derek Haynes
Sterling Camden
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