The Corvallist

Monday, July 31, 2006

Thanks!

As of today, the Corvallist blog is officially six months old. What started as an experiment has garnered a solid regular readership of 100 people each day, plus about 25 to 50 more per day that wander in due to various Google searches about the town or local news topics. The numbers climb every month.

I had only planned on doing this for six months, figuring I'd be lucky to have 25, maybe 50 readers by that time. Then I planned to close down and vanish back into the woodwork. But the way things are going, I guess I'll actually have to polish up the site and make it a bit more worthy.

Thanks to my fellow Corvallists and other-ists who have bothered to read my ramblings, made comments and sent lovely emails (for the most part).

(The best part? The income from that little advertisement over to the right has earned me BIG BUCKS. We're talking a whole $6.85. That's right, folks... more than $1.10 per month. I might get a crazy idea and run off to Europe, or start thinking retirement, so I'll be yanking that thing from the site entirely in the coming weeks. If Google ever actually sends me a check for that cash, I'm going to frame it.)

posted by Corvallist at 9:43 PM

10 Comments:

  • Your blog lets me know about local matters I'd otherwise never know about. Thank you, and keep doing it!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 10:47 AM  

  • No, thank you! I think you write the only blog specifically about Corvallis--and I've picked up a bunch of info, events, and gossip I would have missed otherwise. ;)

    By Blogger Paul Bausch, at 10:51 AM  

  • Congrats, Corvallist! Glad you're going to continue. You officially rock.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 11:27 AM  

  • Please do keep writing!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 5:06 PM  

  • I came across your blog by accident. Have to say it was a happy accident. Good work, appreciate your efforts and will continue to check in every once in a while.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 10:59 PM  

  • you are in publishing? any thing specific? anyway, is publishing the same as journalism? i dont know exactly how to word my question. is there a mission statement or mantra so to speak that publishers work or live by, i was just wondering; alot of other occupations do; for instance in retail my boss always said : the customer is always right....oh, it was soooo maddening, especially when the customer was abusive.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 1:32 PM  

  • Well, I "publish" a blog. :P

    It was really just a snarky choice, as I have no intention of listing my day-to-day profession.

    By Blogger Corvallist, at 2:45 PM  

  • no one was asking you to, i just asked a simple question, and you cant seem to answer it, ; as far as i am concerned, you can get a too big for your britches attitude, then forget how to think professionally.

    and BTW, i read your blog only out of curiousity, ; I personally witnessed you publicly acting maliciously to me before having or getting the facts which was unethical, unprofessional, and immature, actually stupid.

    I asked this second question, just to see if your cocky too big for your britches attitude was still there..guess it is in a way.

    i wonder if there will be a third time.

    pride goeth before a fall; and there is something to say for a little humility.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 5:18 PM  

  • I honestly have no idea what you're talking about, and if I don't know who you are, how am I supposed to act maliciously toward you?

    Lots of people post anonymously, and while I technically *could* go back and track which is which by IP address, that's more trouble than I want to take. So if you're taking something personally, it's not intended that way.

    But hey, if you don't like what I'm writing, nobody's forcing you to read it. Hope your day gets better... I figure you must not be having a good one.

    By Blogger Corvallist, at 6:12 PM  

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