WordPress just informed me that I published my 1,000th post on this blog today.
Some quick and mostly self-indulgent observations/summaries from the first thousand:
- Twitter is my most-used category on the blog (no surprise), with more than 100 posts, 28 of them in my #twutorial series. I’ve done nearly 100 on ethics.
- My most-viewed post is one that gets great search traffic but almost no engagement, The 5 W’s (and How) are even more important to business than journalism. It ranks high in Google searches for the 5 W’s and has more than 24,000 views, but I think that’s an oddity.
- My most-viewed post that I think people actually read is about ideas for new revenue streams for newspapers. It has more than 15,000 views. My only other post with more than 10,000 views is on how a Digital First journalist works.
- After changing the name frequently in my first couple years. This blog was Puttin’ on the Gaz (when I was editor of the Cedar Rapids Gazette), then Transforming the Gaz, then Pursuing the Complete Community Connection (after a blog post that for a couple years was my most-read). I changed it to The Buttry Diary when TBD launched. Even though TBD is long since dead, I think I’ll stick with it. I changed names too frequently.
- I’ve used a few different headers, but I think I’ll stick with the one designed for me last year by Tim Tamimi.
- I’m not blogging as often (or getting as much traffic) as I did last year. I topped 25,000 views in five different months last year, twice topping 30,000. I’ve only topped 25K once this year and twice I dropped under 20K. I attribute my less-frequent blogging to my work load and to better fitness. I usually do my blogging in the morning. I have been taking morning walks most of this year (cold weather has slowed that lately), and that has cut into my blogging productivity.
Other blogs
I have no idea where I hit the 1,000 milestone in total blogging. I’ve had several blogs and contributed guest posts to several other blogs.
I started the Training Tracks blog in 2004 for the No Train, No Gain website and later continued it at the American Press Institute. Also at API, I had blogs called Leadership Tips and Writing Tips (blog versions of email newsletters where I aggregated links on those topics, sprinkling in some of my own links and tips). None of those blogs are still available online, except for the Training Tracks posts I’ve republished here (I should have saved the other archives).
I also have three other current blogs:
- Hated Yankees (about my beloved Yankees; I don’t post very often there. I need to post something about the off-season free agency moves and Joe Torre’s election to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Maybe this weekend).
- 2 Roads Diverged (Mimi’s and my travel blog).
- Gathering String (a promotional blog for Mimi’s novel, Gathering String). I posted on that blog today.
Congratulations! And thanks for the twXplorer info!
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And to think there are days when we sit at the keyboard thinking “what am I going to write about today” — 1000 blogs congratulations. I’m only about 980 behind you.
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Congrats! That’s one heck of an accomplishment! I look forward to reading through some of your Twitter posts.
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