Last month marked five years for Rick’s Blog. It began as a WordPress blog that I only posted to once or twice a week. Today it’s a demanding monster that is read religiously by people from all over the state with an average of 12,000 page views a day.
In 2008, we established posting rules to curb comments that were bigoted, racist or hateful. The traffic jumped 31 percent. This year, we required readers to use their real names when posting. The comments are down, but traffic has jumped another 20 percent.
What was my first post? Tasers
Popularity: 2% [?]
[...] Rick’s Blog is 5 years old [...]
The first one is a link to the Pensacola Progressive blog, and their daily round up.
Well, the first name in comments isn’t one…
So much for rules.
It is next to impossible to comment from mobile devices. I usually read your blog from my iPod touch. can’t read the IN or comments that way w/out a microscope….
[...] Rick’s Blog five years old. Congratulations to Rick Outzen and his eponymous blog, which turned five years old last month. Rick’s Blog is the deservedly the area’s most widely-read online alternative media outlet. We may not always agree, but Mr. Outzen and company deserve credit for raising important issues and providing another valuable voice in a community which isn’t always adequately served by the institutional media. [...]