The finish line -- thank you, readers!
We've had another fantastic Buck-a-Hit Day on this blog. Just before the stroke of midnight, the hit counter showed:
And one more hit crept in right at the wire, before we could get a screenshot. Those 4,505 unique visits mean that one of our benefactors is donating $4,505 to the Oregon Food Bank in honor of you, our readers. And to make things even better, readers donated $2,003 of additional funds, which will be matched by me and some other members of our gift-giving team. Finally, we're holding another $250 for donation to the charity chosen by the winner of our comments contest, which will start in earnest in a little while. That means that as the day comes to a close, we've raised $8,761 for charity over the last 24 hours. Our goal was higher than that, but in times such as these, we're proud to have raised more than 83 percent of our target.
Readers who played along yesterday -- and especially those who linked here on their own pages -- should be proud, too. Thank you all.
In some years, we get a few stragglers who make donations the morning after Buck-a-Hit Day, and we're leaving our match open in case some show up this year. Let's hope.
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Comments (7)
I checked the link to SiteMeter, or whatever it was, a few hours ago, and the numbers were well below 3000.
How come you also removed the link to that site so we independently check hits?
Posted by PJB | December 17, 2009 12:32 AM
You must have been looking in the wrong place. Here's the hit tally for the last six days, plus today:
http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s14jackbogsblog&r=5
I took the link down -- much earlier in the day -- because SiteMeter has suddenly developed a quirk that once you go there, the "Back" button on your browser no longer works. I hate that, and didn't want to have readers go over there and not come back to my own page before they considered making a donation.
We hit 3,000 hits for the day at 5:04 p.m.:
http://twitter.com/bojack54/status/6748679071
Posted by Jack Bog | December 17, 2009 12:36 AM
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Posted by yusuf | December 17, 2009 12:54 AM
Bravo Zulu Professor!
Posted by HMLA267 | December 17, 2009 2:06 AM
Ooops..
Posted by HMLA267 | December 17, 2009 2:08 AM
That's awesome! I posted a link on my Facebook page twice, and my sister, who doesn't even know you, shared the link with her friends. I'm sure many others did the same. Isn't teamwork amazing?
Posted by Linda Kruschke | December 17, 2009 6:57 AM
Wait...I thought they took crochet needles away from old ladies because they feared....
they'd knit an Afghan!
*aeriel tram*
Posted by godfry | December 19, 2009 7:02 PM