Another View from the Tower

by Rick Rockwell

As the end of the year approaches, it seems a fitting time for milestones. This blog has passed two early and important milestones this week.

The latest milestone is the 100th post: “Rocky’s Football Corner #16,” which went up yesterday. At one time, the football posts on this blog were the most popular. The topic of that post (the controversy concerning the NFL Network) has proved to be one of the favorites for readers.

If you missed it, this blog also passed the 100 comments mark earlier in the week (see: “Centennial Commentary”). So 100 seems like the number of the week. This also points out that the average post gets about one comment and not much more.

The most popular post on the blog is “Nancy Dis-Grace,” which not only has the most comments but has also attracted the most readers.

The first editor’s column about the blog (“A View from the Tower”) recounts a number of early milestones for this blog that began this September. Fittingly, as the blog undergoes some year-end renovation, we take note of a number of these other important markers.

For those who are interested, 80 percent of this blog’s readers are based in the United States, with 40 percent of the readers from the District of Columbia. But Maryland and Virginia are not with the district at the top of the list. The second highest hit total comes from California (seven percent) and the next greatest comes from New York (five percent). Now that we have added a key writer from Dallas (Jeff Siegel premiered last week with “The Ballad of Penny Evans”) perhaps our numbers in Texas will increase. Readers from all the states except Idaho have sampled the blog.

About 20 percent of the readers originate from international locales. Canada and the United Kingdom are the leading areas with usually about three to five percent from each, depending upon the week. However, readers from 60 other countries and territories have sampled the blog so far. Our most interesting visitor so far (see: “Internet Café Shoutout #1”) has come from the Palestinian Territories.

We’ve also had visitors from both houses of Congress, various federal and state agencies, various Air Force bases (we know you folks like the football entries) and the Pentagon too. (Did someone give our URL to Robert Gates so he could get in on the football pool?)

We send a warm holiday greeting out to all of our readers and a sincere thanks for stopping by to sample our wares.

(The photo is from diciu of Bucharest from morgueFile.)


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