Thu, 09 Feb 2006

2572

is the number of posts (not counting this one) made on MacRaven since I started this madness three years ago today. I've been through a name change (it started as the Raven Banner), two blogging tools (Radio and Blosxom), three URL's, four news aggregators (Radio, AmphetaDesk, Blagg and my current home rolled version) and several redesigns. I've dropped and added services (notably Blogrolling and AdWords), banners and bumper stickers.

There have been over 500 legitimate comments posted, and nearly 20,000 SPAM comments deleted.

I've not made a single cent from this endeavor - no donations or hits from AdWords. But that's OK - it was never the point.

The point was having a soapbox - and I've got one. As a wild guess from the log files, I'd guess that I've got about 250 regular readers. According to Technorati (when it's available, which is rare these days), 32 unique sites link here, some to individual posts but most of which have me blogrolled.

Getting off the soapbox for a minute, this enterprise has had a secondary effect that I have found most gratifying. I've made a lot of new friends, and reconnected with more than a few old and dear ones. And I have y'all to thank for that!

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On 2/9/2006 14:59:05
Dan wrote

On 2/9/2006 15:56:27
Arwin wrote

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Notes: If you put a <mailto:> link in the URL field your address will not be mangled: this could be a bad idea as your email address could be easily harvested by bots designed for SPAM. The comments field should now format correctly for line feeds and carriage returns: when you hit the 'Enter' or 'Return' keys in your comment it should break to a new line. The text should wrap cleanly. Please let me know if it doesn't. No HTML tags will pass through - entering links seems to be the main cause of comment SPAM. Also, please be sure that Javascript is enabled in your browser before attempting to post a writeback. Sorry for any inconvenience, but this really helps cut down on the amount of comment SPAM I have to deal with.
 
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