Let us take a moment to acknowledge a milestone: this is my 3,000th post on Beervana. It precedes another milestone--my 10th anniversary on the blog--by about four months. I was a sprightly 38-year-old when the blog started, and now I am a beleaguered 47-year-old (I'll turn 48 two days before this blog turns 10). Over the course of those 3,000 posts, the blog has received 13,852 comments (4.6 a post--not bad) and some millions of page views. (I used to use SiteMeter, but it crapped out on me for some reason; Google's analytics only go back to May of 2010, and since that time, I've gotten 2.2 million.)
In the intervening time, social media has appeared and displaced blogging as favored platform for discussion. Print media, which originally eschewed online content, has now co-opted the space blogging once occupied in both high form (with well-reported long-reads) and low form (the word "clickbait" didn't exist when I started this blog). One therefore imagines that there are a good deal fewer blog posts in my future than there are on the archives. But, until I figure out what, if any, future this site might have, I'll keep plugging along.
Feel free to blow your noisemakers and raise your pints.
Congrats, youngster! Looking forward to welcoming you and Jay to the Double-Digit Club. Really looking forward: it's just me and Alan at the moment, and we're not speaking.
ReplyDeleteNot sure I see a load of well reported print media blog. I do see columns as they have existed for decades with the word "blog" scotch taped on to them. I agree that fewer actual blog posts and actual bloggers will exist but that is more because the crappy ones have scuttled off to social media. Really, there is the opportunity for the amateur drinker to rewind the clock and start again as in 2005 given the gap. We are the long play record of the indie band revived.
ReplyDeleteWho said that!?
ReplyDeleteLPs forevah!
ReplyDeleteWe are only not talking because of those mesmerizing eye brows. How do you shave?
ReplyDeleteI have an Egyptian boy. He's very nimble.
ReplyDeleteCongrats, Jeff! That's no small feat.
ReplyDeleteThanks for being my connection to Oregon beer.
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ReplyDeleteCheers from Spain! :-)
Congratulations, and thank you.
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