Today marks the seventh anniversary of this blog, which began life as "AnalPhilosopher." I'm pretty sure I haven't missed a day of blogging, although I'm bound to do so eventually.
Here, in case you're interested, is my first blog post. Here is what I wrote on my first anniversary. Here is what I wrote on my second anniversary. Here is what I wrote on my third anniversary. Here is what I wrote on my fourth anniversary. Here is what I wrote on my fifth anniversary. Here is what I wrote on my sixth anniversary. There have been 1,865,417 visits to this blog in seven years. That's an average of 729.5 visits per day (yes, I counted the leap years in 2004 and 2008).
Addendum: Here is a year-by-year breakdown of visits:
Year 1: 131,571 visits
Year 2: 246,165 visits (an increase of 87.0%)
Year 3: 399,389 visits (an increase of 62.2%)
Year 4: 423,626 visits (an increase of 06.0%)
Year 5: 291,649 visits (a decrease of 31.1%)
Year 6: 241,033 visits (a decrease of 17.3%)
Year 7: 131,984 visits (a decrease of 45.2%)
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Total: 1,865,417 visits
The seventh year is almost identical to the first!
Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D. 