The Italians have a lovely expression for ‘thank you very much,’ grazie mille, which literally means “thanks a thousand.” Americans, in our unending desire to super-size have turned this into “thanks a million,” but this excessive exaggeration actually cheapens the sentiment in my view. Who really has a firm grasp of the concept of a million?
Border Wars passed several large milestones (which used to mark 1,000 double paces in the Roman empire, thus the name mile = thousand) in February. The success of the Westminster Rewards Cruelty post resulted in a single day record for this blog of 24,235 hits on Valentine’s Day. Way to show the love, readers. This post went viral big time and February saw over 100,000 views. Grazie cento mille.
The Westminster Rewards Cruelty viral traffic spike.
To put that in perspective, the blog had 272,265 hits all of last year. Based on January’s 38,000 hits the blog was looking to record 465,000+ hits this year, a decent amount of growth. But the Westminster surge will surely make that goal too low. In fact, the viral post helped the blog burn past 500,000 total hits with 400,000 of those since January 1st of 2011. Amazing to me, really, for this little dog blog with rather dense content to draw such interest, especially in the rapid nature of its growth this last year and some.
February 2012 BorderWars blog visitor stats.
More than 115 of you now subscribe to one of the three duplicate feeds–a legacy of moving from blogger to wordpress with feedburner–and over one hundred currently receive the blog over e-mail. You’ve left 3,333 comments to through February and none of this appears to be slowing down.
Grazie mezzo milione. Thanks a half a million.
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Great work!
I’m glad your work on the merles has really paid off!
I can’t wait to see what kind of evil things you’re going to find next.
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Congratulations. You really found your stride and capitalized on a niche. Please do keep writing articles.
Chris your timing really was perfect for great non bias journalism that means so much too so many of us. I personally am deeply grateful to finally have molecular and genetic evidence with your efforts finally bring these issues to the forefront. It is a dream come true for my precious collie breed. Congradulations you earned it.
Thank you again.
Urban Chick this site seems quite outdated or likely grossly misinformed.
With half a million hits, I’d think you’d be able to shake out more than $9.60 for Dublin’s frisbee campaign. Come on folks, ante up 😉
Just burned past 700,000 hits and 4,000 comments.
900,000 hits and 4,700 comments on 398 published posts as of today.
1.796 million hits and 8,264 comments and 494 posts and 880 FB likes.