Laura said...
Best Pictures: The up close and personal pictures you guys got in SEPTEMBER at the Baltimore game.
Best Parental Usage of Eminem Lyrics: June 2005, Will the real Harry Potter please stand up? [ed.: I didn't even know it WAS a Parental Usage of Eminem Lyrics until I saw this comment and Googled the line to try to figure out what Laura was talking about. Sure enough. Who knew??!]
Rob and Claire said...
Happy Blogoversary!! After carefully considering all the hours of fun and info we've had from the Murphy Blog we've decided that we can't pick just one entry. Our award would go to the entire Blog as maybe a "Blog of the Year."And Cassie would get our vote for "Blog Master." The whole blog thing has brought us feeling much closer to the Murphy family and that, as Martha would say, is a good thing. So Happy Blog Day. [ed. Thank you!]
Aurora said...
Prettiest Post Ever: May 2005. Are we having fun yet?
TASTIEST POST EVER!!!: Tuesday, June 21 2005. Chocolate mousse!
Most Boring Post(s): Farm Updates. ha. [ed. This selection appears to have been a tactical error on the voter's part. See nomination below for "Best Commenter."]
Post that introduced us to the greatest comedy group in the world: The song that Flight of the Conchords used to stop racism in New Zealand ( it was really bad before they started singing this song) Posted by Mr. Murphy. I guess this makes up for those boring farm updates!
Dad said:
Best Guest Commenter:
Most Interesting Story: Spooks the fawn
Second Funniest Post: A New Way to Get the Kitty
Funniest Post: Stuff on our Dog series
Best Picture: Daphne goes Punk!
Best Nature pictures: The Spider gets the Grasshopper
Best Farm Post: Rescuing a Heifer
Funniest comments: The Philadelphia Series
And Mom said, based mostly on SiteMeter statistics:Most popular post by far (based on comments and SiteMeter statistics): the picture of the baby pandas in day care in China.
Longest post: probably this one.
Longest comment section: the song-lyrics one, naturally.
And finally, just for fun, some SiteMeter statistics: the blog has had 4127 visits and 10,434 page views since the visit counter was added in July. The peak month for both page views and visits was October, 2005, during which we logged nearly a thousand visits. The blog's most frequent referrals from Google and other search engines come from people looking for the lyrics of "Albie the Racist Dragon," but we also get hits from searchers looking for discussions of soccer at both Sherburne-Earlville and Mount Markham, people researching the Dropkick Murphies, and, oddly enough, searchers who want to find pictures of Pyramus and Thisbe from "A Midsummer Night's Dream."
Though most of our visitors come from New York, we also get regular visits from New Jersey, California, Connecticut, and Massachusetts, and people do show up from much more far-flung places. Our most recent 100 hits have included visitors from British Columbia, Mexico, New South Wales in Australia, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Hong Kong. (An aside to any Clippingers who may be reading this: SiteMeter is a great addition to a blog, and in its most basic version, it's free. I wish I had added it to this blog right away.)
One year ago today, I was not sure whether anybody would even bother to look at this blog. I thought setting it up was probably a silly idea and a waste of time, but it was a cold afternoon and I had nothing better to do, so I just went ahead and did it. Isn't it great how happily things sometimes turn out?
Happy Blog Day!
2 comments:
We've got Webtrends, which is a similar reporting system that works off the server logs. In week 1 of the blogpocalypse, I can tell you that...you're in very select company. Our unique visitor count is up about 50 from the historical average.
Yes, but what does that mean?!
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