reflections

Barely a day goes by recently where a new social networking or image host springs up, only to fade to nothing and slip past everybody because of a fundamental lack of originality!

So I found it quite refreshing to learn this morning that somebody was doing something unusual with a website! Glogster is a fantastic new way to express your mood, feelings and ideas visually. The simple and intuitive interface quickly takes you a long way beyond what could be created with basic text and videos. It’s still officially in beta - but I personally feel that it’s already as slick as it needs to be!

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Well folks, today is a special day for me and my blog, which has now been online for 6 whole months! It doesn’t sound like very long, but in terms of blogging it’s quite an achievement!

In the true tradition of blogging milestones, I feel obliged to share some stats that cover the last half a year:

• I’ve had 49,016 unique visitors to the site
• They’ve looked at 101,932 pages
• I’ve written 57 posts
• My most popular post (80,000 views) is this one
• I’ve had 933 comments left by visitors
• The first comment was left by Zep
• Askimet has caught 2096 spam comments
• I’ve got 302 feed subscribers
• Alexa ranks me as 201,043 most popular site
• Compete ranks me as the 267,244 most popular site
• Technorati ranks me as the 27,786 most popular blog (with an authority score of 205)
• 82% of my visitors are using Firefox
• I’ve managed to successfully resist monetising my blog!

I’d like to send heartfelt thanks to everyone who has left comments, sent me messages, or just read my blog - the feedback is what makes blogging worth all the effort, and what keeps my spirits high! I look forward to writing another post like this in 6 months time…

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Things are moving quickly with Britster now - and we’re bang on target for a November 1st 2007 launch! It’s really exciting to see 6 months of hard work coming together, and being actively used by the beta team (thanks guys and gals)!

I thought it might be nice to offer an exclusive on my blog - so I’ve got fifty beta invites to give away! These will get you into the site more than two weeks before it goes public - giving you a chance to get yourself established before everybody else does!

All you need to do if you want one is leave me a comment on this post, or send me a message using my contact form. The invites will be sent on Sunday, strictly on a first-come first-served basis, and entirely at my discretion.

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This guy is abolutely awesome! He can create an insanely detailed piece of science-fiction artwork in less than 10 minutes! It’s almost convinced me to go and buy some cans myself…

You can check out more from this guy on his website.

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Ten days ago I wrote my 10 Most Stupid Client Questions Ever post - and on the same day Tara from the Graphic Design Blog submitted the article to StumbleUpon. I had no idea that she’d done this at the time though!

Over the course of the last ten days the article has received more than 32,000 views (edit: more than 45,000 as of July 1st), with about 80% of those coming from StumbleUpon users! The rest came from being on the front page of Spotplex, the Upcoming page of Digg (with 7 diggs) and the second page of Reddit - in addition to the usual traffic from Technorati and the like. At one point I was getting an alarming 10 views per second!!

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