post #1000!

It's time to celebrate a landmark-- my 1000th blog posting!

I celebrated at #300 after two months. Since then, my pace has slowed down a bit, with #1000 coming after seven months.

Viewership has increased quite a bit.
According to StatCounter.com...
Average daily pageloads and average unique visitors:
-for the first three months: 72 and 47
-for the last four months: 167 and 132
-for all seven months: 125 and 95
-in February: 150 and 112

-The three top days were December 20-22, generated by other sites linking to my essay on Hoosier Eugenics (more later). More than 4,000 pageloads and 3,300 unique visitors over that three-day period. (That aberration blows up the averages that include this period.)

--If you're a blogger, have you linked to me yet?

--If you're a blog visitor, add comments so we can continue to develop this as a forum.

--If you've enjoyed SchansBlog, wake your kids and phone your neighbors-- to spread the good word. Or selectively send blog entries that might interest people you know.


At #300, I provided a Top Ten list of significant and representative blog entries to that point.

Now, for a new Top Ten-- of postings since #300...

10.) The posting that led to the most comments so far (23): on Lee Strobel's sermon at Southeast

9.) A book report/review of Nicholi's book on Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis

8.) The news that Business Week has rated IUS as the 18th-best part-time MBA program in the country-- ahead of schools like Ohio State and Carnegie Mellon (and hundreds of other schools that were not ranked at all)

7.) A brief blog entry on the death of Richard McIntyre and a link to an article I had written about him and his sad contribution to Congressional history

6.) An RIP for Evel Knievel as well as his testimony about becoming a Christian toward the end of his life

5.) The Onion on Barbaro's hypothetical/satirical funeral (on the occasion of the first anniversary of the famed horse's death)...

4.) Multiple articles on "the year of pro-life cinema"-- a noteworthy (if not amazing) spurt in pro-life movies (without an explicit pro-life intent)

3.) Some funny stuff on marriage with news about what one church was doing to enhance marriage

2.) A recent essay on property taxes reform proposals (following my initial essay on PT's in the WSJ)

1.) My essay on Hoosier Eugenics. I had planned to write it for a few years, after recognizing that the centennial would be in 2007. Then, I procrastinated and didn't get around to writing in until December! Thankfully, I was finally able to get 'er done.