meta: 2 years of Science Library Pad

As you can see from the archives, Science Library Pad is two years old tomorrow, Monday November 20, 2006.

I started it mainly to have a more professional place to post conference reports, and then it evolved into a much greater communications channel than I ever could have imagined.

I'd like to thank everyone who subscribes, and particularly those who comment or email me.  It's great to make connections into the worldwide library / science / publishing community.

I think this is my 1380th post.

The rest of this post is stats mainly for my own interest, what's a blog without some narcissism?

Also note that various blog monitoring tools were added at different times, which is why they don't all stretch back to day zero.

Feed Stats

Steady growth, now pretty much stabilized around 575.  The big jump was TypePad-FeedBurner integration.  The subsequent drop from the plateau is some unfortunate TypePad-FeedBurner disintegration (FeedBurner blames it on Bloglines) - it's not a real subscriber drop, just as the jump was not a real subscriber jump - it's just capturing a greater or lesser subset of the real subscribers.

By far--very far--the most popular post in the feed is the controversial is the research library obsolete?

Total  	                           44,975
is the research library obsolete?   4,452
Alvin Toffler on Big Ideas 	      199
Seed Magazine on Open Access 	      180

Web Stats

Hits are pretty consistent, with rare peaks.

The big peak is when I got diggdotted. The small one I think is the controversy I stirred up with the "obsolete" article.

StatCounter has tallied 119,783 page loads and 87,687 unique visitors.

TypePad, which has the full hits picture (if very poor web stats tools) reports 128283 page views.
Also 277 comments and 84 trackbacks.

Last but not least, here's a Google Analytics map showing a sample of 500 hits

Previously:
August 24, 2006  meta: one hundred thousand
December 22, 2005  year-end wrapup
October 24, 2005  to every season turn turn - one year of scilib blogging

Comments

[Maxine]

Fascinating stuff, Richard. Happy birthday, and keep on blogging. Your blog is a consistently interesting read.