2012 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 7,000 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 12 years to get that many views.

Click here to see the complete report.

Thanks for reading. Thanks for following. May 2013 be the best year ever for you and your loved ones.

 

2011 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 5,400 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 5 trips to carry that many people.

Click here to see the complete report.

2010 in review

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:

Healthy blog!

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Fresher than ever.

Crunchy numbers

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A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 2,000 times in 2010. That’s about 5 full 747s.

In 2010, there were 174 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 285 posts. There were 103 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 133mb. That’s about 2 pictures per week.

The busiest day of the year was February 6th with 43 views. The most popular post that day was 10W30 – and parka politics.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were facebook.com, en.wordpress.com, linkedin.com, twitter.com, and en.search.wordpress.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for jackie richardson singer, jean stilwell, patti lupone richmond hill, g20 toronto, and sedna iv.

Attractions in 2010

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

1

10W30 – and parka politics February 2010
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2

Antarctic Documentary Online – Sedna IV September 2010

3

About April 2009
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4

Happy New Year, Jackie Richardson January 2010

5

Quark Expeditions April 2009

Zemanta – A New Feature at WordPress

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WordPress has added a feature that is supposed to “jazz” up my posts – adding visual interest and links to relevant information. They call it the blog assistant. Sounds rather dubious to me. So I’m giving it a shot with this post. When your subject matter is polar travel the odds that a virtual assistant can deliver the goods are low. What does an AI brain know about the Arctic or Antarctica?

Here goes – I’m rubbing the lamp and calling up the djinn.