{"id":109,"date":"2006-10-29T08:21:50","date_gmt":"2006-10-29T12:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/?p=96"},"modified":"2006-10-29T08:21:50","modified_gmt":"2006-10-29T12:21:50","slug":"happy-birthday-to-the-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/10\/29\/happy-birthday-to-the-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday to the Blog!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I started <a href=\"http:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\">this blog<\/a> on October 26, 2005.  Now, after a year (and a couple of days;  Ask my family:  this is pretty normal for me!), it&#8217;s a good time to take stock.  I&#8217;ve had 92 posts (93 counting this one) in that year, which seems like a reasonable number.  The most common tags I have applied are &#8220;Applications&#8221;, &#8220;INFORMS&#8221;, and &#8220;OR in the Press&#8221; (often on the same posting), which matches up with my view that a primary use of the blog is to bring people&#8217;s attention to the usefulness of OR.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had about 8000 visitors to the blog, which seems pretty good.  Not up with the big boys (sites like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\">BoingBoing<\/a>) with millions of visitors, but ahead of lots of sites.  The visitors have provided some commentary activity (69 comments, about half from me).  I only have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/search\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu%2Fblog\">eight other blogs linking to me<\/a> (ranking the blog 316,042 at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\">Technorati<\/a>) so I need to get the blogrolling thing going better.<\/p>\n<p>It is amazing the amount of spam comments that are generated.  My system has protection against such comments (<a href=\"http:\/\/akismet.com\/\">Akismet<\/a>) and it has caught 2,205 (!) spam comments.  Without such a system, it is clearly impossible to run a blog with open comments.<br \/>\nThanks for reading!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started this blog on October 26, 2005. Now, after a year (and a couple of days; Ask my family: this is pretty normal for me!), it&#8217;s a good time to take stock. I&#8217;ve had 92 posts (93 counting this one) in that year, which seems like a reasonable number. The most common tags I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/10\/29\/happy-birthday-to-the-blog\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy Birthday to the Blog!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administration-announcements","category-blogs-and-web"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}