Blog Notes: New Site Passes 1 Million Mark

This is the 150th post on T.O.P. 2.0, and as I write it, at about 2 p.m. on Tuesday, we are passing the 1 million mark for page views on the new site since the first post on June 2nd. Yesterday we set a record for page views in a single day at the new site, at 22,579, probably because recent posts have referred people to archived pages and readers are looking at more than one page on the site when they visit. In addition, 2,213 people looked at one or more pages via feeds, and there were 2,466 unique visitors to the old site on Blogger (it continues to draw traffic despite being inactive because search engines refer web surfers to its archived content).

Many, many thanks to both regular and occasional visitors for helping to make The Online Photographer such a goin' concern! I enjoy it and have a lot of fun with it. At the moment I'm on three separate deadlines (a job application, a grant application, and a magazine article due), so things might remain a bit quiet for another 24 hours or so. But, to paraphrase the Terminator and Beck Hansen, I'll be beck.

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Mike

Comments

[brendadada]

Marvellous work, and it does all take effort. Congrats!

[Albano García]

Congratulations! You deserve it, content quality matters. Now you just need to figure out how to transform that in $$$ :-)

[Player]

Mike, we'll be waiting on the edge of our seats. Good luck with everything!

[Mike Hess]

Like every issue of Lenswork, TOP is a must read. The real world info combined with writing that is miles away from the pretentious art school dribble that was force fed to me in, well, art school makes this the best read on photography period. There are magazines dedicated to technical aspects of photography, magazines about the new 'wundercameras', there are magazines that talk about what is 'now' and 'it' in art. TOP is the only place to get information that isn't motivated by ad sales and camera companies. TOP is the best photography website ever. Yes, period.

[Will]

"I'm on three separate deadlines (a job application, a grant application, and a magazine article due)"

A *JOB* application? You mean like a real nine-to-fiver?

[Jason]

Ever since Michale so willingly helped me out with a courtesy link to a photo forum/club site about a year ago (www.scphotogs.com) for those that forgot, which is probably most everyone), I knew TOP would stay in my RSS feeds forever. I continue to read it each and every day. This literally is the only blog I know of that provides useful and valuable information that makes me think and appreciate some new aspect or subject relating to photography. I don't know how you are able to juggle so many things but it's impressive that you do. I guess for those of us that strive for something higher all the time, the effort is never-ending.

[Mike]

Mike Hess,
Thanks you very much for that wonderful compliment. I don't think I'm deserving, but I'll keep trying to live up to your glowing description!

Will,
Yes--I have not been able to solve the headache of health insurance.

Mike

[Richard J.]

Congratulations on your 1M mark Mike. Since discovering your site earlier this summer, it sits at the top of my rss feeds. I rarely comment to any blogs or forums but yours seems so open to comments without any of the usual flamewar bs- personal control by you helps but I like to think it is more due to the quality of your readership drawn by the quality of your writing and the interest of your content.

p.s. if we can ever get the assembly and the governor of this state to agree on the state senate's health plan you (and I) wouldn't need to worry about the health insurance issue :)

[Player]

Mike, I'm one of the 5.7% living in Massachusetts who's still not covered. It's not intentional, I just haven't gotten around to applying, but living in Massachusetts would be a solution. Just a thought.