This morning we had the 7 millionth unique visit to this blog, as counted by SiteMeter. That's a lot of visits since we started this hobby nearly a decade ago. The pace continues to increase: The latest million visits came in over a period of 269 days, whereas the immediately preceding million took 307 days. The average unique visits per day over the most recent timeframe was 3,717, as opposed to 3,257 per day over the preceding period. However you slice it, readership's up about 12% to 14% over the last year.
As we said at the last million-visit milestone:
We're truly grateful to have this blog. For us, it's an outlet and a lifeline and a lot of other things. Thanks to our sponsors, lurkers, tipsters, correspondents, advisors, and especially our commenters for making it happen.
We're gearing up for a 10th anniversary in a couple of weeks, and open to suggestion about how we should mark the occasion.
Have Metro sponsor part of the convention center with all of the fixings for a party as part of their Opt-In, Kitchen Table, outreach, public participation outreach efforts.
This would be Metro engaged in an honest public collecting of concerns from only critics with some presentations only from that side without any of Metro's staff bringing any of their regularly produced propaganda. They do that the other 364 days of the year.
Why not? What's wrong event without distributing the Metro sermon?
One event where they shut the heck up and publicly listen.
Congratulations. It's amazing to see where people come from, is it not? I'm surprised to find people visiting from Malaysia and Iraq, places you'd never expect.
Of course, your unique visitor count is likely enhanced by anonymous proxy visits (mine is, anyway - Malaysia, for example). But it's a great milestone, and as others have noted previously, you do a great service for those who want actual information.
Well, the anti streetcar contingent out here in Lake O is partially responsible for the recent speeding up of the pace to reach the latest million. We have spread the word of Bojack far and wide in L.O. and Clackamas Co. since some of us discovered your blog last year.
You'd be surprised at the unlikely contingent of followers you have acquired here....
Charamba, Douro 2008
Horse Heaven Hills, Cabernet 2010
Lorelle, Horse Heaven Hills Pinot Grigio 2011
Avignonesi, Montepulciano 2004
Lorelle, Willamette Valley Pinot Noir 2011
Villa Antinori, Toscana 2007
Mercedes Eguren, Cabernet Sauvignon 2009
Lorelle, Columbia Valley Cabernet 2011
Purple Moon, Merlot 2011
Purple Moon, Chardonnnay 2011
Abacela, Vintner's Blend No. 12
Opula Red Blend 2010
Liberte, Pinot Noir 2010
Chateau Ste. Michelle, Indian Wells Red Blend 2010
Woodbridge, Chardonnay 2011
King Estate, Pinot Noir 2011
Famille Perrin, Cotes du Rhone Villages 2010
Columbia Crest, Les Chevaux Red 2010
14 Hands, Hot to Trot White Blend
Familia Bianchi, Malbec 2009
Terrapin Cellars, Pinot Gris 2011
Columbia Crest, Walter Clore Private Reserve 2009
Campo Viejo, Rioja, Termpranillo 2010
Ravenswood, Cabernet Sauvignon 2009
Quinta das Amoras, Vinho Tinto 2010
Waterbrook, Reserve Merlot 2009
Lorelle, Horse Heaven Hills, Pinot Grigio 2011
Tarantas, Rose
Chateau Lajarre, Bordeaux 2009
La Vielle Ferme, Rose 2011
Benvolio, Pinot Grigio 2011
Nobilo Icon, Pinot Noir 2009
Lello, Douro Tinto 2009
Quinson Fils, Cotes de Provence Rose 2011
Anindor, Pinot Gris 2010
Buenas Ondas, Syrah Rose 2010
Les Fiefs d'Anglars, Malbec 2009
14 Hands, Pinot Gris 2011
Conundrum 2012
Condes de Albarei, Albariño 2011
Columbia Crest, Walter Clore Private Reserve 2007
Penelope Sanchez, Garnacha Syrah 2010
Canoe Ridge, Merlot 2007
Atalaya do Mar, Godello 2010
Vega Montan, Mencia
Benvolio, Pinot Grigio
Nobilo Icon, Pinot Noir, Marlborough 2009
Portuga, Rose 2011
Revelation, Chardonnay, Pays d'Oc 2010
Beaulieu, Cabernet, Rutherford 2005
Monte Alto, Tinto Reserva 2005
Chateau Ste. Michelle, Cabernet, Indian Wells 2009
Espiral, Vinho Rose
Vin-Koru, Pinot Gris 2011
14 Hands, Hot to Trot Red 2009
Rodney Strong, Cabernet, Sonoma 2009
Abacela, Vintner's Blend #11
Portuga, White 2010
La Bourgeoisie, Red 2009
Januik, Red 2009
Three Rivers, River's Red 2008
Kirkland, Alexander Valley Merlot 2008
Muga, Rioja Rose 2010
Quinta das Amoras, Vinho Tinto 2009
Mauro Molino, Barbera d'Alba 2009
Garda Chiaretto Rose
Columbia Crest, Two Vines Vineyard 10 White
Chateau Ste. Michelle, Pinot Gris, Columbia Valley 2009
L'Hortus, Rose de Saignee 2010
Maculan, Pino & Toi 2008
McKinley Springs, Bombing Range Red 2008
Trader Joe's Pinot Gris 2009
Montes Alpha, Cabernet 2007
Gran Sasso, Sangiovese, Terre di Chieti 2009
Garda, Classico Chiaretto Rose
Beaulieu, Cabernet, Rutherford 1999
Picos del Montgo, Tempranillo 2008
Chateau de Montmirail, Vacqueyras 2008
La Granja 360, Syrah 2009
Montgras, Carmenere Reserva 2009
Lange, Pinot Gris 2009
Columbia Crest, Horse Heaven Hills Cabernet 2008
Kirkland, Pinot Grigio 2010
Trader Joe's Coastal Syrah 2009
Columbia Crest, Horse Heaven Hills Merlot 2008
Trader Joe's Coastal Chardonnay 2009
Vieux Papes Red
Domaine de l'Aujardiere, Chardonnay 2009
Santa Rita, Cabernet, Medalla Real 2007
Penfold's, Koonunga Hill Shiraz Cabernet 2008
Guild, Red, Lot #02 2008
Dievole, Dievolino Sangiovese 2008
Laforet, Burgogne Chardonnay 2009
Columbia Winery, Merlot 2007
Bonterra, Cabernet 2008
Elk Cove, Pinot Gris 2009
Maquis Lien 2006
Scott Paul, Pinot Noir, Le Paulee 2007
The Occasional Book
Hope Larson - A Wrinkle in Time, the Graphic Novel
Rudyard Kipling - Kim
Peter Ames Carlin - Bruce
Fran Cannon Slayton - When the Whistle Blows
Neil Young - Waging Heavy Peace
Mark Bego - Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul (2012 ed.)
Jenny Lawson - Let's Pretend This Never Happened
J.D. Salinger - Franny and Zooey
Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol
Timothy Egan - The Big Burn
Deborah Eisenberg - Transactions in a Foreign Currency
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. - Slaughterhouse Five
Kathryn Lance - Pandora's Genes
Cheryl Strayed - Wild
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov
Jack London - The House of Pride, and Other Tales of Hawaii
Jack Walker - The Extraordinary Rendition of Vincent Dellamaria
Colum McCann - Let the Great World Spin
Niccolò Machiavelli - The Prince
Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus - The Nanny Diaries
Brian Selznick - The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Sharon Creech - Walk Two Moons
Keith Richards - Life
F. Sionil Jose - Dusk
Natalie Babbitt - Tuck Everlasting
Justin Halpern - S#*t My Dad Says
Mark Herrmann - The Curmudgeon's Guide to Practicing Law
Barry Glassner - The Gospel of Food
Phil Stanford - The Peyton-Allan Files
Jesse Katz - The Opposite Field
Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited
J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
David Sedaris - Holidays on Ice
Donald Miller - A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
Mitch Albom - Have a Little Faith
C.S. Lewis - The Magician's Nephew
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
William Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Ivan Doig - Bucking the Sun
Penda Diakité - I Lost My Tooth in Africa
Grace Lin - The Year of the Rat
Oscar Hijuelos - Mr. Ives' Christmas
Madeline L'Engle - A Wrinkle in Time
Steven Hart - The Last Three Miles
David Sedaris - Me Talk Pretty One Day
Karen Armstrong - The Spiral Staircase
Charles Larson - The Portland Murders
Adrian Wojnarowski - The Miracle of St. Anthony
William H. Colby - Long Goodbye
Steven D. Stark - Meet the Beatles
Phil Stanford - Portland Confidential
Rick Moody - Garden State
Jonathan Schwartz - All in Good Time
David Sedaris - Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Anthony Holden - Big Deal
Robert J. Spitzer - The Spirit of Leadership
James McManus - Positively Fifth Street
Jeff Noon - Vurt
Road Work
Miles run year to date: 29
At this date last year: 66
Total run in 2012: 129
In 2011: 113
In 2010: 125
In 2009: 67
In 2008: 28
In 2007: 113
In 2006: 100
In 2005: 149
In 2004: 204
In 2003: 269
Comments (14)
WE WANT THUNDERDOME! *ducking and running*
Posted by Texas Triffid Ranch | June 18, 2012 11:41 AM
Have Metro sponsor part of the convention center with all of the fixings for a party as part of their Opt-In, Kitchen Table, outreach, public participation outreach efforts.
This would be Metro engaged in an honest public collecting of concerns from only critics with some presentations only from that side without any of Metro's staff bringing any of their regularly produced propaganda. They do that the other 364 days of the year.
Why not? What's wrong event without distributing the Metro sermon?
One event where they shut the heck up and publicly listen.
Bojack's Metro Bash!
Posted by Dare | June 18, 2012 12:08 PM
Congratulations on the milestone. A case of quality prevailing in the crowded marketplace.
Posted by Roger | June 18, 2012 12:11 PM
Some kind of party is needed, Jack. This is cause for celebration!
Posted by paul | June 18, 2012 12:15 PM
Throw the mother of all virtual parties!
Posted by Tom | June 18, 2012 12:34 PM
Hmmmm. If you had a nickel for each unique visit...
Congratulations. Best blog ever.
Posted by PDXLifer | June 18, 2012 1:02 PM
Strippers and blog.
Posted by Pistolero | June 18, 2012 1:03 PM
Congrats Prof Jack!
Now that you have us right where you want us, you will likely double your subscription fee. Go ahead. I dare you.
Posted by Concordbridge | June 18, 2012 1:27 PM
For the 10th anniversary, what about taking a week off from blogging and giving the keys to Stenchy?
Posted by Tung Yin | June 18, 2012 2:34 PM
That's a lot of clicks, Jack. What constitutes a "Unique Visit"?
If it doesn't exclude multiple views from the same IP, then I'm responsible for a couple thousand of them.
This site is much more informative than the O or KGW, but not nearly as alluring as the Merc.
Posted by Mister Tee | June 18, 2012 4:41 PM
Congratulations. It's amazing to see where people come from, is it not? I'm surprised to find people visiting from Malaysia and Iraq, places you'd never expect.
Of course, your unique visitor count is likely enhanced by anonymous proxy visits (mine is, anyway - Malaysia, for example). But it's a great milestone, and as others have noted previously, you do a great service for those who want actual information.
Thanks much.
Posted by Max | June 18, 2012 6:27 PM
THAT was me ! What'd I win?
Posted by ltjd | June 18, 2012 9:58 PM
Well, the anti streetcar contingent out here in Lake O is partially responsible for the recent speeding up of the pace to reach the latest million. We have spread the word of Bojack far and wide in L.O. and Clackamas Co. since some of us discovered your blog last year.
You'd be surprised at the unlikely contingent of followers you have acquired here....
Thanks for what you bring to us daily.
Posted by L.O. Resident | June 19, 2012 12:46 AM
Declare that you are running for mayor
Posted by Gary | June 25, 2012 10:41 AM