2010 blog year in review

After weeks weeks of not posting a thing, I now discover that WordPress.com has taken over this blog.  Or so it seems.  Perhaps it’s their way of reminding me to get my blogging ass back in gear, but some bot over there has seen fit to mail me a ready-made Year in Review post.  Perfect for a bone-lazy blogger like me who’s been wondering when, if ever, that urge to post regularly will ever come back.

Who knows?  Happy New Year anyway.

Snarky comments  in bold are mine.

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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.

The Blog Zombie Meter reads: Putrefaction stage

Crunchy numbers

The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 110,000 times in 2010. If it were an exhibit at The Louvre Museum, it would take 5 days for that many people to see it.

I’m sure each would demand his entry fee back.  As for the posts themselves, if you were to print out every post in 10-point and glue each word together, you would have enough to string from the Statue of Liberty’s base up to her armpit.  Aren’t stats meaningful?

In 2010, there were 53 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 374 posts. There were 143 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 30mb. That’s about 3 pictures per week.

Troll comments deleted: 13.  Spam referral links: countless.  Estimated date WordPress will do something about spam links: whenever.

The busiest day of the year was February 15th with 647 views. The most popular post that day was Are we raising our kids to be wimps?.

Go to freerangekids for the answer.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were cndrnh.blogspot.com, WordPress Dashboard, raincoaster.com, and toytowngermany.com.

See how important it is to comment on blogs and leave links back to your own on forums?

Some visitors came searching, mostly for the queen, horses jumping, naked 13 year old girls, swallows, and snake head.

That list is so embarrassing, I almost left it out.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

1

Are we raising our kids to be wimps? August 2009
20 comments

2

Europe’s largest-circulation newspaper runs photo of naked 13-year-old June 2008
28 comments

3

Queen Elizabeth Foundation email scam reply December 2007
129 comments

4

10 things I learned about skating in Holland January 2009
51 comments

5

How we nearly tripped over a headless snake that had swallowed a dog whole March 2009
25 comments

Wow, wasn’t that fun?

WordPress.  The blogging platform that’s so good, it writes your blog for you!

Whom would you miss if bloggers went on strike?

Just saw a long list of TV shows hit by the Hollywood writers’ strike. After nearly three weeks of no new jokes, punch lines, plotlines, storylines or storyboards, production has stopped or forced many to go off the air or in re-run, while the launches of 24 and Cashmere Mafia – whatever the hell that is – have been postponed.

As a union member, I sympathise with strikers hitting the bricks for what they believe in, even train drivers who indirectly put my life in danger.

But as an expatriate Canadian living in Germany, the writers’ strike is a faraway sideshow, playing out in a land I’ve never lived in and wouldn’t like to. The only shows I watch out of the whole list are The Daily Show with Jon Stewart – because it comes on CNN and we have that on cable – and The Colbert Report, because I find him hilarious and make an effort to find him on spewtube. The rest? Don’t even recognise them.

But what if bloggers went out on strike? Sound crazy? We’ve got our grievances too, you know! From spammers, sploggers, scrapers and thieves to the petty annoyances of comment trolls, we’ve got every right to lay down our laptops and pick up our picket signs. And just because we have absolutely no hope in hell of ever getting any of our gripes addressed doesn’t mean it should never happen, if only for a week or so.

And if we did, I sure would notice. That’s because I’d miss:

• My nurse, who brings me my daily drip of medical weirdness.
• Bombay Duck, and not only because she’s an old friend from journalism school.
• The oozings of madness pooling from The Leaky Brain.
• The oddball observations of Hermann the German, even though I don’t agree with him half the time, and tell him so.
• Indeterminacy, a blogger who challenges you to write your best.
• The Elle Effect, because I admire raw talent in one so young.
• Charlotte, because she writes so fluently and I learn something new every time I go there.
• The Dilbert Blog.
• Passive-aggressive Notes
• Euro Like Me, whose writing came highly recommended from EuroTrippen.

No particular order, and of course I’ve left out many who should be on the list. But if you head over to EuroTrippen’s write-up of last weekend’s whiney expat meetup in Dresden, you’ll find some more .

Whom would you miss if bloggers went on strike?

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