A friend asked me about the numbers here and I had to go into the analytics to refresh my memory because I write for myself. Creating technical documentation for industry, business, and government, I get paid to create content that other people ask for. This blog publishes what I want. Of course, I also write to be read.
I shut off comments several years ago when cleaning out spam got to be real work. (“Great post! See BuyThisProduct dot com.”). The most recent tally is that since January 2, 2011, this blog has garnered 779,696 page views: not bad for a site with seven subscribers; and I never bother with search engine optimization.
Everyone else’s favorites are not mine. I remain satisfied with the original ideas that motivated me. Among those are Money as a Crusoe Concept (January 2, 2011) and then Supplies and Demands (November 25, 2011). I could promote 20 others as significant to myself. I remember deleting one post but I do not recall which that was. I do make anonymous grammatical corrections. However, notable updates are clearly identified with strikethroughs or other editorial markup.
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