Milestones

• Started writing for the Blog Herald.
• Appear regularly on Techmeme.
• 300K Uniques
• About 1 million page views
• About 8 million hits

Top 10 Posts In Order Of Popularity

• Best and Worst James Bond Films
• Movie Notes: When Great Actors Go Flabby Or Skinny
• All About The LOLcat
• Eight Random Things Previously Unknown
• Movie Notes: When Hot Actresses Go Ugly
• Gilmore Girls: Season 8 But Shorter?
• Movie Notes: The Machinist
• Watch Sicko At Google Video
• New Star Trek Movie 2008
• Netflix Offering Free Streaming Movies

Top 10 Search Phrases of 2007

• Gilmore Girls Season 8
• Watch Sicko
• Free Streaming Movies
• James Bond Women
• Flixter
• Top Love Movies
• Best Radiohead Songs
• Sicko Google Video
• Gilmore Girls 8th Season
• Movie Notes

My 10 Personal Favorite Posts

• The Art Of The Pitch: Ron Popeil And Steve Jobs
• Book Notes: Hungry Planet
• What’s In Those Snacks And How Are They Made?
• Movie Notes: Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls
• Movie Notes: Freddy Got Fingered
• My Favorite Suzanne Vega Songs
• Desktop Tower Defense: 6280 On Hard
• Webomaticomic: Product Management
• iPhone Insanity Update #4: San Francisco, Burlingame, The End
• Battlestar Galactica: Thoughts On Season 4

What Have I Learned?

• Regular readers (subscribers) are looking for completely different things than searchers via Google. Most search engine traffic for the television and movie reviews which is why I persist in doing them. They’re less time sensitive and “breaking news” oriented and get very few comments.
• Networking is essentially promotion, and could be as simple as logging into MyBlogLog and visiting all the blogs you read. I really fell off doing this during the middle of the year and this likely caused my subscribers to plateau. I also surrendered crafting content that is particular to “digg bait”. I’m not sure if I’m interested in doing either in the near future, but I could do better at linking to lesser known blogs and participating in social networking websites.
• I think I’ve hit a level of posting that is comfortable for me and doesn’t set myself up for burnout. For me, that’s once a day with a few days skipped every once in a while.
• I find it’s quite easy to get sidetracked as the initial blogging thrill has certainly worn off. For example, my third contest totally fell apart because I got caught up in other projects. I hope to revive contests in 2008 because I really want to make good on my promise to return ad revenue to the readers.

Anyhow thanks for continuing to read the blog. If you’re a long time reader, I hope you’ll continue reading in the new year. Thanks for the support.

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