I started blogging four years ago today. How is that possible? I’m pretty sure I’ve posted something every day during this period. On many days, I posted more than a dozen items. When I started, I didn’t know whether I’d like it. I love it. I can’t imagine a day without blogging. Perhaps things would be different if I had children. In fact, I’m sure they would. But I don’t have children. My life is filled with congenial routines, one of which is writing in my blog. Thanks for reading. My readership declined several weeks ago when Michelle Malkin changed her blog format. She used to have her blogroll prominently displayed, and with a name like “AnalPhilosopher,” I got a lot of traffic. Now, her readers have to click a link to see her blogroll, and it shows “Keith Burgess-Jackson.” Bor-ing. Believe it or not, this reduced my readership significantly. I think of my numbers as being inflated before and honest now, but that’s just me, looking at the bright side of things. This blog had an average of 926.4 visitors during the past week. A year ago, with Michelle’s help, it had 1,530.5.

Here, in case you’re interested, is my first blog post. Note that Brian Leiter had not yet attacked me. Once he did, I of course retaliated. (My mother didn’t raise no mouse.) Here is what I wrote on my first anniversary. Here is what I wrote on my second anniversary. Here is what I wrote on my third anniversary. There have been 1,200,751 visitors to this blog in four years. That’s an average of 821.8 visitors per day. The thing I love about blogging is that it allows me to corrupt people on a mass scale. Socrates was able to corrupt only small groups of individuals. I, with this newfangled technology, can corrupt people far and wide.

Addendum: Here is a year-by-year breakdown of visitors:

     Year 1: 131,571 visitors
     Year 2: 246,165 visitors (an increase of 87.0%)
     Year 3: 399,389 visitors (an increase of 62.2%)
     Year 4: 423,626 visitors (an increase of 06.0%)
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     Total: 1,200,751 visitors

Once again, thanks for visiting.