Recently, this blog passed the one thousand comments mark. To me this is bigger and better than any other metric so far on this site, as it shows involvement. Having others interested in sharing their thoughts, opinions and views through the comments of my blog makes me so happy, and so excited.

I am looking forward to the next thousand comments, and want to thank everyone who has taken time out of their day to come on here and express themselves. I really appreciate it and hope it will continue.

This blog is more about sharing and learning than me just telling you all what I think, so your participation is the most important thing to the life of this blog.

Thank you all.

Originally posted on March 25, 2008 @ 12:58 pm

January is turning into a banner month for me. eXtra for Every Publisher now has three hundred posts in its archives, a goal I was hoping to reach in December, but I got a little busy with the holidays.

According to Feedburner, this blog is hovering around 300 RSS subscribers, which to me, is absolutely amazing. I write for numerous blogs, but they were either established before I showed up, or are multi-author blogs, so I never imagined I would have so many fans willing to subscribe to the content I generate.

And last, but not least, I have had nearly 60,000 unique visitors to this blog in January alone. I am currently sitting at a little over 58,000, with 243,000 page views. That to me is insane for a single author blog in a very crowded niche, but it proves that anything is possible if you work hard enough and are passionate. I owe a heck of a lot of this newfound success to my friends, and of course my employer, Splashpress Media, for all their great support.

I have so much more to say though over the coming weeks and months, so I hope you will all continue to stick with me, and continue to enjoy the content I publish.

For those of you that haven’t enjoyed my technology posts on setting up my network attached storage box, it is almost over, and I will return all my attention to handing out tips and advice related to blogging.

Originally posted on January 21, 2008 @ 12:20 pm

A few years ago, a great blog network started called 9rules. It seemed like every blog that I enjoyed reading, especially regarding design, blogging, and technology were all listed in their ranks.

Since then though, the network has ballooned out of control and has now become a community. During this shift, I have watched as many original members left 9rules as the benefits and goals were no longer there.

With Grand Effect, I hope to help Sarah Perez recreate some of the magic that was the original 9rules. The blogs listed in the Grand Effect network will work together, helping each other out in blog development, promotion, and creating a cross communication between sites.

We will also begin to work on an advertising platform that will allow advertisers to buy space on all the blogs in the network for an appropriate rate, allowing us to combine our reach in the blogosphere to spread out marketing messages for those interested.

There won’t be rounds, nor will every blog be accepted. We are looking to keep this a small, tight knit group of high quality blogs.

So far, I am more than impressed with the other members of the network, and how we’ve all pulled together to launch the network. The Grand Effect site still needs huge amounts of work, and things will be in a constant state of improvement, but I look forward to the new challenges with Grand Effect.

For those wondering what this means for me and Splashpress, it doesn’t change anything. This blog has always been a side project, and will continue to be one as I focus on my duties with Splashpress Media. My work with Splashpress provides me with many of the ideas that I turn into posts here, so again, nothing will change in that respect.

I hope you will all check out the other member sites, and I hope you will continue to watch and be involved with the growth of Grand Effect.

Originally posted on February 12, 2008 @ 11:18 am

While I haven’t been writing as much on the blogs I should be writing on, or even on this one here, I have decided to start a new blog. This one is more a personal therapy session, as it is about weight loss, and my struggles with being obese. I will be writing in there and chronicling my work at trying to get out of the obese world.

If you want to check it out, head on over to BloggingWeight.com.

Originally posted on February 17, 2008 @ 4:34 pm

So to start off the year right, I was hoping that January would be a banner month for this blog, and I couldn’t have been more right. A post that I had written that is not really suitable for work got some serious traffic due to a news announcement being released about the subject of the post. I know that sounds pretty cryptic, but nevertheless it helped me get over 17,000 unique visitors in a week. Meaning that in the first week of January, this blog received more traffic than all of November, and more than half of December.

Here’s hoping for continued success. And thanks again to Ryan for getting me to write up that article.

Originally posted on January 8, 2008 @ 12:30 pm