Yes, it’s a boring stats post. It’s been a year and a third since I started this thing. Time to report.
Both my blog and this podcast are currently Slimy Molluscs in the Truth Laid Bear Blogosphere Ecosystem. Only with your linky support can Maria Lectrix stay clam and Aliens in This World be my oyster. 🙂 My most frequent linkers are Mike Aquilina at Way of the Fathers and the nice gentleman at In Illo Tempore, but I also get tons of people from being linked by Julie at Happy Catholic and by being on Amy Welborn’s sidebar at Open Book. I also received a huge boost when archive.org put me into my own section of Audiobooks, and by the kind reviews at sffaudio.com. Still, you’d be surprised how many visitors I get from single links on blogs, and I’ve been extremely gratified by the interest from folks far outside St. Blog’s Parish. That’s good, because literature belongs to everyone. I hope you all enjoy stopping by.
The podcast and blog were both honored this year, when T.S. O’Rama named me one of Ohio’s Greatest Bloggers. I am embarrassed to be honored in such company, but proud.
The download stats from archive.org and the download stats from WordPress and Feedburner have begun to diverge. For example, archive.org thinks there’s only been 4 downloads of the intro to The Everlasting Man since Friday night; whereas WordPress counts 15, and Feedburner seems sure there’s been 16. Clearly, there are local copies of audiofiles being kept around somewhere. Not that it matters, but it’s interesting to know.
Here are my top twenty downloads from archive.org, as of January 22, 2007:
1163 – Fifty-One Tales, Part 1, by Lord Dunsany
918 – The Ascent of Mount Carmel, by St. John of the Cross (unfinished)
525 – The Rosary
446 – Dawn of Flame, by Stanley G. Weinbaum
390 – Fifty-One Tales, Part 2, by Lord Dunsany
382 – “The Sword of Welleran”, by Lord Dunsany
353 – Europe and the Faith, Part 1, by Hilaire Belloc
350 – The Eye of Osiris, Part 1, by R. Austin Freeman
311 – “The Blue Sequin”, by R. Austin Freeman
307 – The Eye of Osiris, Part 5, by R. Austin Freeman
290 – Little Fuzzy, Part 1, by H. Beam Piper
277 – Fifty-One Tales, Part 3, by Lord Dunsany
272 – The Red Thumb-Mark, Part 1, by R. Austin Freeman
270 – The Dialogue of St. Catherine of Siena, Part 1
269 – “On the Pleasure of Taking Up One’s Pen”, by Hilaire Belloc
256 – “The Ring of Thoth”, by Arthur Conan Doyle
241 – Annus Mirabilis, by John Dryden
239 – Against Heresies, Book I, by St. Irenaeus of Lyons
229 – “A Message from the Deep Sea”, by R. Austin Freeman
214 – “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came” by Robert Browning
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My top Feedburner downloads:
30 – The Ascent of Mount Carmel, Bk 2, Chs. 30-32
30 – “A Welsh Halloween”, Part 2
29 – Cabbages and Kings, Ch. 8
29 – The Brazen Android, Part 2
28 – The Life of St. Martin of Tours, Part 0
28 – The Life of St. Martin of Tours, Part 1
27 – Gerusalemme Liberata, Chapter 12A
27 – The Brazen Android, Part 1
26 – The Life of St. Martin of Tours, Part 2
26 – The Nebuly Coat, Chapter 15B
26 – The Ascent of Mount Carmel, Bk 3, Chs. 1-2
26 – “On Patience”, Part 2
26 – Pastoral Care, Bk 3, Chs. 8-9
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Congratulations on all the recognition. As I’ve often said, in a real empire you’d be paid handsomely, from the spoils of every battle, just for the way you think and talk. Keep the momentum. I’ve noted the same discrepancies regarding stats and rankings, so I stopped looking at them altogether. TTLB doesn’t seem to pick up most of my incoming or outgoing activity. I don’t thank you enough, so thanks.
Well, I don’t worry about the stats, per se. But they do give me a certain amount of useful information. I can pretty much tell what people like and what they don’t — or what I’ve blurbed well and what I haven’t — and that’s definitely of interest.
Actually, it’s not all that bad to be a Mollusc. Back when I started Aliens in This World, I wasn’t too far off in numerical placement from where both it and Maria Lectrix are now. Given that there are hundreds of thousands more blogs now than then, I feel pretty good about managing to keep up!
You’re right, of course.
Just go ahead and shoot holes in all my excuses for skipping another task!
Congratulations on all the recognition in one year! Thats amazing. I am fairly new to the whole podcasting thing but look forward to emulating your success
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