About Me and This Blog
I teach university courses about online journalism and the changing ways we use technologies for communication. I love seeing multimedia used well to tell journalism stories.
I started this blog in December 2005 on Blogger, with no idea whether I would want to keep doing it for long. In May 2007 I ported the blog to WordPress on my own server. Then I did a second port on June 30 and switched for good. I had 795 posts at Blogger. Those posts are now here, in the new version of the blog Teaching Online Journalism.
On June 30, 2007, the old blog had had 84,025 visits and 138,422 page views, according to Site Meter. It had a Technorati authority rating of 349 and was ranked 10,939 out of about 3.8 million blogs registered there. Below you can see how traffic increased in the 12-month period before I moved the blog (graph from Site Meter, July 6, 2007).
If you’re wondering why traffic doubled in March 2007 — it was because of one link on Reddit.
To find out more about me, see my brief bio.
You can contact me via a handy form.
Mindy McAdams
July 6, 2007
Update (Aug. 2, 2007): For the month of July 2007, this new site had 6,474 visitors, according to Site Meter. The old site had 4,364 visitors in the same time period. Now, presumably the former includes many of the latter. It will be interesting to see whether this new site is up to 8,000+ a month by September. (Traffic tends to decline during the summer.)
Update (Sept. 7, 2007): Yesterday, the number of subscribers to this blog reached 1,000 for the first time, according to FeedBurner.
Update (Oct. 27, 2007): Today, the number of visits to this blog topped 30,000 (that’s the total for four months), and the total visits for October exceeded 8,000 — this is the first 8,000+ month since I moved the blog to this new URL. Numbers from Site Meter.
Actually, the visits for October stand at 8,700. Maybe by Wednesday they will exceed 9,000. (September had 7,483.)
Update (Jan. 23, 2008): Sometime early this morning, the number of visits to this blog hit 60,000. That’s 30,000 visits in the past three months (9,787 so far in January).
