About a week before our third anniversary (August 12), Blogcritics.org -- our little "sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, technology, and politics" -- has hit the 10 million unique visitors mark. This is a nice big fat round number that speaks volumes toward the talents and dedication of our writers, editors, commenters, and most of all, the 10 million readers who have spent some of their valuable time with us since August of 2002.
At the end of our first year we had 1.5 million page views, 13,817 comments, 7162 entries, and 311 Blogcritics writers. In our second year we had 4 million page views (2-year total of 5.5 million), 61,177 comments (total of 74,994), 10,140 entries (total of 17,302), and 522 writers. Nice growth.
But in our third year we will have had about 8.3 million page views for a 3-year total of about 13.8 million, about 115,000 comments for a total of over 190,000, about 14,000 entries for a total of over 31,000, and 1100 writers. Wow.
Awards and recognition (please see the lower right sidebar) are great and we appreciate them, but Blogcritics is something we love to do and it is gratifying beyond words that a growing number of you find our efforts worth your time and attention.
The future is so bright we gotta wear goggles, but it's all due to you - THANKS!
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Article comments
— go to most recent comments1 - Aaman
Congratulations Eric/Philip, all blogcritics, and our active readers - thanks for an enriching experience!
2 - Eric Olsen
thanks for all your efforts Aaman!
3 - Temple Stark
Gotta wear Googles.
4 - Dave Nalle
Truly a remarkable accomplishment. Any predictions of how long it will take to reach the next 10 million?
Dave
5 - Eric Olsen
yeah, shades aren't enough
6 - Tan The Man
Yeah!
7 - Eric Olsen
under 6 months for the next 10mil
8 - Aaman
Insha'allah!
9 - Bennett
Exponential!
Congrats!
10 - geo
Wow! This is the first I've seen that the bloganthology was published. Any way to find out whose writings were used?
11 - Eric Olsen
check with the publisher or editor?
12 - Aaman
Or buy the book - via blogcritics
13 - Mark Sahm
Maybe you've already done this, but I think it would be interesting to have a link of the brief history of BC and how its creators had humble beginnings and limited fundage yet grew the site to where it is now.
Unless of course, the 10 million hits hasn't gone to your head. Congrats.
14 - Matthew T. Sussman
I am proud to be a part of this and -- with the help of my writing over the past three months -- to bring 10 more hits to the site.
15 - Bob A. Booey
Have you bought that mansion yet, Olsen?
Out of curiosity, which of you goofs have been around from the beginning?
That is all.
16 - Phillip Winn
I'll come up with a list of the folks who published the very first week and are still around.
Like me. :-)
17 - Eric Berlin
I'm wearing two eye patches right now in celebration!
18 - Eric Olsen
good question BAB - eager to see that Phillip!
19 - DJRadiohead
I know I wasn't first to the party, but I am damn glad to be here. As Keith Richards says, "It's great to be here- it's great to be anywhere."
Cheers, Eric.
20 - Aaman
While that might be nice spam - it perhaps belongs in the open Culture thread, or send in a press release to the editor/publisher.