JISHOU, HUNAN — While poking around my own posts recently, I discovered that the third anniversary of my blog had completely slipped past me. Hard to believe it’s been that long.
In the past 37 months, I have written 472 posts, or about 13 blog entries (posts in WordPress lingo) a month — roughly 3 a week. My active readership seems kind of small, with roughly one comment for each post, but my ClustrMap‘s little Mercator projection is covered with red blobs over North and South America, Europe, China, Australia and the Middle East. So somebody must be reading me, even if they leave no comments behind. According to ClustrMap, SiteMeter and my own stats application, there have at least 40,000 visits to this URL since August 2006 — a mere pittance compared to, say, ScienceBlogs superstar PZ Myers, but a helluva lot more than I ever expected.
In the beginning, the blog was just a means for me to vent my frustrations at how willfully ignorant and unscientific Americans seem to be. I also had the intention, which has yet to find its full fruition, to make the blog a place to teach physics and astronomy. As the months passed, I found myself commenting on religion, civil liberties, evolution vs. intelligent design, music, film and a host of more random issues. Since August 2008 the focus understandably switched to my new life in China. I have a wide range of interests, so I suppose the blog reflects that.
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