( Left: Me with a fave book: "Two O'Clock, Eastern Wartime" by John Dunning) photo: 2006
From November, 2005:
“Thanks for checking out the new blog. It will be a continuation of the
old blog which was an expanded version of my newspaper column in the
"INDEPENDENT" papers of Phoenix/Scottsdale. I hope you continue to
check it out; updates are usually on Wednesday each week and for you regulars
you know the stuff I write about (radio, TV, movies, music, books, sports, or
whatever).”
“Thanks again for tuning in and tell your friends where I am at http://jmcallister.blogspot.com.”
“Thanks again for tuning in and tell your friends where I am at http://jmcallister.blogspot.com.”
That statement from 2005 was the beginning of the current
blog I write through Google+. Today’s
blog is a sort of celebration since it is number 700 written since that
November day.
Besides my personal blog, starting in 2006, I used to do a
blog for the Arizona Republic, along
with a few other writers, which was eventually discontinued in 2011 when the
newspaper decided that a lot of the political comments received were not
suitable for publication. An attempt by the paper to publish them through
Facebook was a failure.
A couple years after that I, along with several other
writers, was asked by the Republic to
do another blog that leaned toward politics specifically. It ran for a while but was eventually
discontinued during one of the paper’s austerity moves.
During those busy times, I still managed to do something with
my personal blog and as you can see, it survives today mainly because I am
running the show and enjoy writing enough to keep the thing going. I also enjoy
the feedback from readers which shows me the success or failure of blogging.
Here are a few statistics.
These are the kind of numbers that keep me doing this: Total published comments: 14,297. All time
number of page views: 283,757. Most page views for one blog: 242, “The Stoneman
Military Road” (published October 1, 2008.)
Thanks to everyone who reads, and I hope enjoys, my stuff. I
have a list of people I automatically send new blogs to. If you are not on my
list but would like to be, please let me know your email address and I will add
it.
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