A Year of Minority Reporting

A year ago, I decided to enter the blogosphere to call attention to issues that impacted minorities and to put a minority perspective on issues being discussed in the media. Beyond that purpose, I had no concrete goals, no measures of efficacy, nor any real expectations beyond having a forum from which to digitally scream out my frustrations and to point out the things that mattered.

When I started, I really didn't expect that anyone would listen. That's been the most delightful and unexpected result of this experiment - that there are kindred voices and spirits out there. Even amongst those who disagreed, the fact that they responded was refreshing - to know that there is still room for debate (mostly, although sometimes it was just more hoarse screaming.)

In my time at Carnegie Mellon, I've become something of a numbers guy, so here is Minority Report by the numbers:

• 427 - the total number of posts. (1.7 per day)
• 19,469 - the total number of visitors. (53.39 per day)
• 194 - the total number of comments by other visitors.
• $161.52 - the amount I've spent maintaining this site.
• $8.12 - the amount of money I've made running this site. (I won't get a check from Google until it hits $100).
• B$2,480.82 - Valuation on BlogShares (Don't ask - I don't know what it means, either.)
• 12 - the number of blogrolls this site appears on.
• 1 - number of blogging awards the site was nominated for.

I was going to go into the number of times my patriotism, intelligence, humility, and anger were questioned, but who has time to go through all that?

Comments

[ravi]

the look on the face of the hapless tom cruise fan who stumbles upon this site: priceless. congrats on a year.