Nothing deep or profound this evening. Just a thanks to the readers and, tonight, especially those on Google Reader. After six years of beer blogging, it has become harder to figure out how many people actually follow a blog given those followers on various aggregating services. But one, Google Reader, hit 5,000 followers recently. 5,011 today. I think I'm also glad that you are not all sending in photos to the beer blog Xmas photo contest. Thanks for that, too.
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Articles
- I don't seem to have kept the text anywhere. But the link is at Gen X at 40.
- Joshua of Miami wins it all with this lurid entry.
- These are all the entries for the beer poetry contest run on A Good Beer Blog in the spring of 2008.
- These are the 2008 Yule Beer Blog Photo contest prize winners.
- A place to place more stuff on that Albany Ale Project stuff.
- Some thoughts about tunes and brews.
- A late draft of the cover article I wrote for the February/March 2007 issue of The Great Lakes Brewing News.
- "BrewDog Go Bonkers" by Roger Protz, Monday, 30 November 2009
- A late draft of an article I wrote for The Great Lakes Brewing News Dec '06 - Jan '07 issue.
- This is a work document on the status of the various prizes.
- Here is a gallery of all the pictures from the 2007 Photo Contest.
- Not that I really have one but people will go on...including about the Franklin quotation.
- Some articles I have saved for your edjification.
- ...errr...
- Some notable reading out there.
- In this section, I document my conversations with Steve Garrity on his design of this site.
- There is no such thing.
- We will take your money and put it to good use. Click and learn how.
Comments
Travis - December 3, 2009 2:48 AM
That's how I keep tabs on what's going on here :) Keep up the good work
Troy - December 3, 2009 11:29 AM
Congrats on the 5,000 Alan.
Maureen Ogle - December 3, 2009 2:50 PM
Alan, how did you figure that out? I'm mystified by the subscriber services. I use one for my own reading (I use Google Reader) but how did you determine how many people are reading you via a service like Google Reader?
Yours in freely admitted stupidity,
Maureen
Alan - December 3, 2009 3:51 PM
Not at all. If you click on the feed for your own blog on Google reader, to the right there is a little "show details" link that has the information.
Lost - December 3, 2009 7:36 PM
You're welcome. :)
-Lost
dave - December 3, 2009 10:54 PM
I use Google Reader, but I leave the occasional comment, so I am kind of tracked... sort of. You could try turning your rss feed to summary mode. Might give you a better idea of how many visitors you have.
zak - December 4, 2009 12:24 AM
I use Netvibes to scan the headlines, then I usually click through. Don't tell your advertisers.