2010 in review

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is on fire!.

Crunchy numbers

The Leaning Tower of Pisa has 296 steps to reach the top. This blog was viewed about 1,200 times in 2010. If those were steps, it would have climbed the Leaning Tower of Pisa 4 times

In 2010, there were 57 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 324 posts. There were 37 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 5mb. That’s about 3 pictures per month.

The busiest day of the year was June 1st with 84 views. The most popular post that day was motion of the blog.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were facebook.com, cbox.ws, WordPress Dashboard, mail.live.com, and nus.posterous.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for prosperity gospel, gospel of prosperity, gospel, matthew matthews nus, and the gospel.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

1

motion of the blog June 2010
5 comments

2

rise of the megachurch July 2010
1 comment

3

About May 2010

4

Why I Believe May 2010
3 comments

5

bye again, C August 2010
2 comments

motion of the blog

Dictionary.com
motion (noun)
1. the action or process of moving or of changing place or position
7. a suggestion or proposal

aft 5.5 yrs / 66 mths of blogging 287 posts n recently reaching ‘official adulthood,’ i decided to change my blog design n blog URL, n move out of Blogspot entirely.

i liked the brown background of my prev blog, n its short URL, n the misty pic of a path in a forest. it had its limitations tho, which i realised when i blogged more. while i loved the pic, the words “i shut my eyes and the world falls dead, i think i made you up inside my head” were not really words that i wanted to appear at the top of my blog, or anywhere else 4 tt matter.

i tried changing blog design, but the blogskins on blogskin.com r difficult to customize. i tried Posterous, but there is only 1 nice design imho, and tt is alr used 4 my cell blog. so i thot of WordPress – the word itself sounds professional – which currently has >90 themes, this one being a theme called Motion. the best thing abt moving – importing my comments + posts frm Blogger took me <10 min.

reasons why i moved to this theme:

• beautiful background! not monochrome. the background colour is also suitable cos my existing font colours (like yellow) can stand out against the background.
• customisable header + sub-title + title of my blog, instead of some emo words abt the world falling dead or me making things up inside my head.
• dropdown box for my archived posts, so there isn’t a long snaky line of  >66 mths anymore.
• easy navigation of categories – i rly wanted this in my prev blog.
• i can’t add audio w/o paying for a space upgrade, but i can add doc / docx / pdf / ppt / pptx files to posts, and i find this function useful for my freelance writer website which wld be ready soon.
• i personally search my blog sometimes for prev posts tt i wanna refer to, n this theme has tt search form at the top rite hand corner.
• links to recent comments at the sidebar. pple have gd reason 2 think tt i rcv ZERO comments but tt ain’t true! sometimes the comments were posted wks aft the post was made, n there was no way 4 pple 2 know tt comments were posted unless they checked back on prev posts.

so, why “Pris-tine Pondering”?