Some Site Stats That Astonish Me

I remember back in they day when I would anxiously look at my site stats to see if anyone came by. Even a few people made me happy. (Still do.) So, it cracks me up when I get my weekly site stats from Sitemeter and see that this blog averages 1,870 readers a day. Who'da thunk?

Even more amazing is my business blog, which has over 400 RSS subscribers, 35 e-mail subscribers, 600-700 additional daily readers, and is now syndicated on Reuters, USA TODAY, San Francisco Gate, and others. Last week, for example, we had over 79,000 readers from Reuters alone. Here's a stats snapshot:



It's not bragging, far from it. I'm just dazzled by the reach that a knucklehead with a Mac and the ability to shamelessly craft incomplete sentences can have. It's a long way from the old poetry anthologies that were read by 100 people, most of them other poets who got comped copies.