Quiet, quite, down in front.
Ahem
We will now delver the annual, well sometimes annual, state of the blog address.
Lex Anteinternet, after having declined to about 5,000 views per month following the end of the centennial of World War One, and indeed after the end of the daily updates on the Punitive Expedition, has been climbing back up, in part because at some time the blog ceased to be searchable in Google's index, It gets about 10,000 views per month, mostly, now.
(Wild cheering).
The blog now has had over 850,000 views during its ten year run.
Not bad.
The most popular views are a bit enigmatic, being, at this point in time, the following:
Why the first Jazz recording or the Seattle Waterfront?
Well, they were linked into Reddit, that's why.
Anyhow, the blog is doing well, but it's about to have some changes as the lid is put on the Great War era.
Today In Wyoming's History, which was once our most active blog, has obviously slowed down a great deal. It now has over 208,000 views, however. It gets about 2,000 views per month. The most popular threads are:
Yes, those blogs are doing well.
Now for ones that, well, are doing less spectacularly.
Churches of the West now has 138,000 views, but new posts there have slowed to a crawl with the onset of COVID 19. There have been new posts, but they're most in the blog mirror category related to the news. Not a single new church has been put on on the blog since August of last year. The current most popular posts are:
Posts
If that's bad, things are much worse with Churches of the East and Churches of the South, new content wise. Practically halted, actually.
As is also the case for Courthouses of the West. Not a single new courthouse has been posted there since February, 2019, reflecting the fact that the local ones, by which I mean in the state and near it, have been covered, and travel is an almost thing of the past with COVID 19. Courthouses now has about 48,000 views in its history.
The same is true of Painted Bricks, our blog on signs painted on buildings and building features, although now quite as severely. It's last new content post was in December, fairly recently, and it did have some new ones in spite of the overall lack of travel. It now has 57,000 lifetime views.
The Aerodrome, our blog dedicated to aircraft, has also really slowed down, as has Railhead, our blog dedicated to railroads. Very little new content over the past year, although The Aerodrome has been active on other posts. the stand at a little over 24,000 and 60,000 views respectively.
Now the new blogs.
There were new blogs?
Yes, indeed there were, but we haven't done much with them.
The first is an old concept we finally put up, I'm Just Here For The Potty, a blog dedicated to rest stops.
If that sounds crass, Wyoming actually has some really interesting nice rest stops. Or at least it did until the state's budget crisis shut a bunch of them down. That means, we've hardly posted anything on it, and what we have, is recycled form other blogs.
It's been viewed a whopping 34 times.
Hmmm. . . .
And then there's Cellmate of Boethius, a blog that is just philosophical stuff, 100% recycled, so far, from Lex Anteinternet. Why did we do this? I dunno. . .
It's been viewed 24 times.
And then there's the Agrarian's Lament. Same story, just recycled agricultural and economic stuff from Lex Anteinternet.
Both of which mean that the latter may serve little purpose, and perhaps ought to be slated for elimination.
Well, be that as it may, 2020 was a rough year in all sorts of ways. It's shown in the blogs that depended on new content. And this blog is likely to slow down this year following March. Time, perhaps, to focus on writing in another venue, now that we've run through the 1910s. . .
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