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This blog was begun on October 24, 2005, so it had its fourth birthday a couple of weeks ago.\u00a0 As my family knows, I am not great with birthdays, so I managed to forget it.\u00a0 But, better late than never, Happy Birthday to Michael Trick’s Operations Research Blog!<\/p>\n
Here’s what I wrote last year about the statistics on the blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n I posted 133 times in the year (up from 83, and well past my goal of 2\/week).\u00a0 I\u2019ve had 237 comments in the last year, up a lot from 69, so you too have been much more active!\u00a0 I get about 3500 visitors per month (up from 2000), and, new this year, Feedburner<\/a> tells me about 450 people subscribe through google reader and other rss feeds (that don\u2019t typically hit my server).\u00a0 Spam is running at about 10\/day, but my system catches it, so it is no big deal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Number of posts in the last year was 134 (my goal was 150, so I fell a bit short).\u00a0 The blog got 420 comments, so you all are doing your job!\u00a0 Spam is up to about 35 or so per day, with a peak of 560 on one day in early October.\u00a0 I’m up to 11,500 visitors per month, with a peak day in October of 5300 visitors (due to a nice posting on reddit<\/a>).\u00a0 Feedburner gives me about 850 subscribers through rss feeds.<\/p>\n Thanks to all of you who read the blog and commented on it.\u00a0 It is encouraging to get feedback about what I write.\u00a0 And thanks especially to all those writing away in the blog-OR-sphere<\/a>:\u00a0 it is great to be part of this community.\u00a0 Here is to another year of exciting news from the world of operations research!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This blog was begun on October 24, 2005, so it had its fourth birthday a couple of weeks ago.\u00a0 As my family knows, I am not great with birthdays, so I managed to forget it.\u00a0 But, better late than never, Happy Birthday to Michael Trick’s Operations Research Blog! Here’s what I wrote last year about … Continue reading “A Belated Happy Birthday to the Blog!”<\/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-968","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\/968","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=968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}