Five Years of ideonexus

I have written 1022 posts since I started blogging in November 2003 (and this post on the same day) Each post written comes out to an average of one to two single-spaced typed pages, each page containing an average 500 – 1000 words.

By these averages, I have written the equivalent of nine 80,000-word novels. I’ve also posted two novels online and written several articles for the Science Creative Quarterly and 365Tomorrows, as well as dozens of letters to the editor of my local paper.

With my old blog, now referred to as ideonexus beta, I never broke 300 hits in a day, but since I began regular blogging a little over a year ago, I’ve been busting that regularly. In fact, October 2008 has been my best month in my history of blogging, with over 16,000 hits for the month and a new record day of 2,185 hits (for my Mole-Day Post from last year):

ideonexus stats 2005 to Present

Thanks to everyone who reads this blog, and I’m also thankful for all the people who have only used the site once, but found inspiration, fascination, or a chuckle from one of my posts.

ideonexus started out helping me figure out what I think about the world, and articulate my positions twice a week. Then, when I started blogging regularly, it became a reason to get out and engage the world, visit museums, attend conferences, and enjoy life. Blogging keeps me on my toes. If I’m not living life and learning, then I would run out of things to blog about.