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This week marks the 2-year blogoversary of The Big Picture weblog. This chart shows the evolution of the site:
Interesting, isn’t it? There’s a steady climb, punctuated by high-traffic days. Most of those high-traffic days, as the chart shows, are Instalanches. Many appear to have brought in new regular readers, since site traffic usually stays higher after a peak than it was before it.
So here’s a big shout-out and thank-you to Glenn Reynolds, the Instapundit. His great site and generosity in linking to other blogs are surely among the biggest, if not the biggest, contributions by an individual to the success of the blogosphere.
I notice that the recent Instalanches include far more visits than the older ones. I have no idea what the explanation of that is. If anyone has any thoughts on this, please leave a comment.
Why is blogging so much fun? My whole life I’ve had tons of opinions and views and what seemed to me to be fairly original thoughts on what was going on in the world, and I never got to tell them to enough people. How many conversations can a person bring thoughts like these into, before a few days go by and the whole subject has changed, and there are new things to talk about? Via blogging, I feel like I can make a contribution to the public debate.
One of my prouder moments associated with this site became the occasion of an early Instalanche. By now, we’ve all heard the argument that, the Left doesn’t like what we’re doing to fight terrorists; okay—what’s their plan? As far as I know, I was the first one to make that point.
Recently I moved to a new URL, this being one which people can actually pronounce. The old one was luxeword.com, and the new one is bigpicweblog.com. Please update your bookmarks and RSS feeds to this site, if you haven’t already. Last month I also moved the site to a new server at LunarPages, and redesigned parts of the site, so it loads much faster than before.
I’d like to extend thanks as well to the commenters. Some of the best content on the site is in the comments.
Finally, thanks so much to the readers here. I really appreciate your stopping by.
