One Million Page Views!
Decatur Metro | July 15, 2009I’m happy to report that in just one year and 10 months, DM has achieved an inconceivable milestone: one million page views!
Not too shabby for a blog that asks “What’s your favorite park/building?”, “How much trash do you throw out?”, yells at various post-modern buildings, and writes fictional posts about cross-dressing city-lovers and cantaloupe.
Thanks to all the clickers out there, both stoic readers and verbose commenters, who make this site so personally rewarding and endlessly interesting to me. Without you, I would just be one more crazy yahoo, sitting in my proverbial underwear, posting ignorant observations for everyone (and no one) to read. Also, continued thanks to all the Decatur/Atlanta bloggers and Creative Loafing journalists who guided me through those first, tough months with support and encouragement and remain dear friends to this day.
And finally, a huge thanks to my wife, who has always been supportive of this crackpot endeavor, but stands alone as the only person that can prevent me from becoming a bit too obsessive about “feeding-the-beast” and monitoring comment threads. All it takes is a look. THE look.
OK, so what’s next? Good question!
Well, for better or worse, I have a few ideas in the works for DM, so keep your eyes and minds open in the coming weeks and months. Should be interesting to say the least.
Here’s to the next one million!
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Congrats! Well deserved.
You have great content , a great franchise, a great platform and a keen audience/fan-base.
Thanks Brad! Have enjoyed your insights ever since you told me (under a different name) to “eat a salad at home” when I complained early on about parking in the CVS plaza during my more formative months.
I’m sure Scott remembers!
And thanks back for your tolerance of my unempathetic sarcasm, juvenile smart-assism and occasional anonymous trollisms.
I have always wanted to ask- Brad Steel- real name or porn name?
OMG– I thought that when I 1st saw that moniker, too! To be precise, I thought, “‘Brad Steel’– hmmm…sounds like a character in ‘Boogie Nights’!” (Brad, please don’t take offense, especially if that’s really your name!!!)
If it is his real name, his porn name must be a doozy.
i tried to get into the porn biz, but was told that i was over-qualified (pause for laughs)….
indeed your radar has identified my name as a blog-de-plum or maybe nom-du-blog is more correcter. for me, the name sounds just real enough to be real, but at the same time it has a smug quality that draws some vague contempt. it provides some assistance in walking the tight rope of irony and sarcasm. or i can just be ham-fisted and smug.
Congrats, DM! I love your commish meeting recaps, post-modern building rants and cross-dressing city-lovers posts equally.
DM rocks !
Congratulations, Sir! You seem to have a knack for encouraging discussion of issues of interest to many Decaturites, and keeping the discussion from getting too far out of hand, and as a result you’ve developed a loyal following which visits often. I’d guess the percentage of blogs which survive to a million hits is very low. I very rarely post here, but enjoy reading the give and take.
Decatur Pub Crawl to celebrate? I’m just sayin….
It’s not quite a pub crawl – which is still a great idea – but I was actually contemplating a DM meet-up in celebration.
Anyone else up for that?
DM meet-up/celebration sounds wonderful – as long as everyone wears nametags with our DM posting names on them.
I don’t know…. there is a beauty in anonymity.
And 500,000 are Scott’s!
It’s closer to 400K, thank you very much.
Congrats, DM! IMO, this is the Decatur blog that has the most interesting topics, vocal (not to mention prolific) posters, and up-to-the-minute information on what’s going on around here, all rolled into one– so I’m not surprised at your success. Keep at it!
It’s you and me, baby. We keep it HOT around here.
Indeed, chica!
1,000,001 — FIRST!
Winnona Park Stud would give you a bear hug if he could. Your blog (and the comments) have made the Winnona Park Stud daily must-read list.
Is this why there were two news trucks this evening on W. Ponce near Little Azio? Congrats!
Catherine and Dave: Thanks again for all the mutual blog love! You guys rock!
Steve: Love it.
Nellie: Have you met my friend Kettle?
cubra: Thanks! Much appreciated!
Stud: Four words…Decatur Metro Hug Fest
altmod: Oh yes…I was so embarrassed when they pushed Burrell Ellis out of the way to get to me!
Congratulations!
Somersaults and pound cake for everyone.
And, now?, we llook tooth he yeast.
Hey – just raised a glass and toasted your one million and counting mark. Congratulations.
Well deserved, because you are a good moderator of all postings. You introduce important and interesting topics and then you refrain from heavy-handing the comments, just letting the ideas flow. A deft touch! Congratulations!
Congratulations, son! Even though I’m not an area resident, I can often easily relate to many of your topics and observations of the Decatur scene. I admire your keen eye, wit, word choice, and finesse in moderating. Did ya raise a Vin glass with “the wife” last night? Cheers!!
DM – you are an inspiration always!
thanks for all you do, DM! You’re one of my daily must-reads!!
DM, your are wonderful even if I disagree with you on most things. My opinions haven’t been changed by DM, but it is fun to give them in relative anonymity. Most of my family is right wing, and I have to tread lightly around them. Nothing worse than being in the room with an angry right winger! Thanks for giving all of us a good place to rant and rave with civility.
Thanks JEM…that means a lot. And thanks so much for continuing to comment. The more diverse opinions the better!
Thanks also to Sitting Pugs, Manj, Carolyn, Linda and decatur mom for the very kind words!
And a special thanks to my mom. Didn’t have any vin last night, but there’s always this evening!
“Nothing worse than being in the room with an angry right winger.”
Yes, there is…being in the room with a self-righteous left winger. Not saying you are one, but thought I would mention the other side of that statement.
Wait…I just searched through JEM’s previous comments…are you further left?
Am I the worst of both worlds? A centrist? Ugh…
Many congratulations, DM! You really do have a penchant for digging up an incredibly diverse range of topics (to say the least). Where else could one go from annexation, education, and city budgets, right through to frozen yogurt eating, squirrel hating zombies riding from one new restaurant to another in a pedicab!
Congrats! DM is always one of my daily clicks.
Congrats to you and all the great bloggers of Decatur keeping us all informed, and urging folks to support local businesses. My morning is not complete w/o checking with you all on what I might be missing. Jeff