Another Monkey: Year One

May 14th marks the first anniversary of Another Monkey. It was created in the morning before I went to work, after I heard an NPR report about Blogger trying to encourage people to take up blogging. The very first entry was a placeholder under the title "Another monkey with a blog!" which simply contained the text "Coming soon..." The full text of "Another monkey with a blog!" was written later that day, after I got home from work.

Here is the Sitemeter graph of the first 12 months of visits (green) and page views (purple). I didn't set up my Sitemeter until the end of the first month, so it looks like I had zero visitors in May 2004. (The truth probably wasn't that far off.)


Another Monkey: Year One

Recent increases in visits can probably be explained by the popularity of my site on search engine searches for "Cathy Baker" and "Monkey Riding Dog". And a feature of Blogger which used to send hordes of "next blog button" visitors my way every day seems to be working only sporadically of late, so I don't expect to equal April 2005's numbers for May 2005.

I was going to post this tomorrow, but I'm going to be out of town at an all-day rock festival (assuming it doesn't get rained out.) Thanks to everybody who has stopped by and read my half-crazed scribblings this past year! Y'all come back now, y'hear?