It's five years today since we launched Keeping Stock.
A lot of water has passed under the bridge since then. We started blogging because of Labour's insidious Electoral Finance Bill; passed into law at the end of 2007, then repealed after the change of government in 2008. We were around in the dying years of the Clark government, and we've been there for the early years of the Key administration. We've seen the All Blacks eliminated from the Rugby World Cup, ansd we've seen them win it last year. We've had a lot of fun, locked horns with a whole lot of people, and indulged in a fair degree of work avoidance.
This is our 6311th post. We only installed a stat counter (Sitemeter) in December 2007, but since then we've had (as of 8pm last night) 662,393 visitors and 940,288 page views; we'll pass the million page views mark some time in October, on current trends.
Quite by coincidence, we're heading off for a mid-winter breather today. We are away to warmer climes, and we don't know if we'll have an internet connection where we're going. So blogging will probably be a bit sporadic over the next week. Then again, we're taking our nice, compact new laptop with us, and if we can get a connection, you never know your luck!
10 comments:
Congrats on five years to the best conservative blog in NZ.
Celebrate well. It's a big commitment running a blog day in, day out, year in, year out. Well done.
Special credit to you for doing it with dignity and respect, something come other blogs could learn from.
Congratulations on a tremendous effort. Hope your golf hasn't suffered from the time you have spent on the keyboard.
Congratulations
Enjoy your break.
When you faltered during this cross country effort I thought, bugger there goes a much needed center right voice.
Then you remounted and continued the round.
People ask me why I do it and my reply is always those in the center right niche of the spectrum too often remain silent or 'close' leaving the feild open to exploitation by the left many of who seem to have unlimited time to keep their point in front of their team.
when the socialists attempted to close out many of the options for a ROC view to be promulgated you were among a very few who saw the danger.
The way you piss off much of the political left on a regular basis coupled with equal aggravation of the rabid right indicates to me a remarkable if at times lonely voice filling a vacuum in the debate.
Great work, enjoy the break cul8tr.
Congratulations on both the longevity of your blog and quality of the posts.
Your statistics put my humble blog into perspective, KS, te pai ke!
Good lad........carry on.
Congrats Keeping Stock on your 5 years worth of quality blogging and information that is of a high standard. I wish you the very best of luck for your next 5 years with the hope of your blog growing even more.
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