- The first post was on February 15, 2006 and was a reaction to the Times Bulletin Board, where users were wondering aloud if there could be a politics blog to engage and debate. The bulletin board format was already getting pretty old.
- We've had a total of 778 posts, with a typical day right now featuring 2 posts from different authors. That should put us at 1,000 posts sometime in July of this year.
- Initially I wrote all the posts, with a lot of analysis into the news of the day, or political debates. Now we feature 25 contributors, and many of our posts get picked up on Indiana Hardball Conservative, Hoosier Access, Red County, Red State, Townhall, Active Rain, and other multi-author platforms. If you have political input, thoughts on issues, please leave a comment and we'll get you an invitation to contribute ... it's easy.
- We now feature about 100 RSS subscribers. I'd love to see that number increase as more Porter County residents use a feed reader. If you want to try your hand, click the link above for RSS, I use Google's Reader which is free. Try it out.
- Our daily traffic has been all over the place, with more than 40,000 readers in the last three years, but a significant number of those during the presidential elections. Actually this last week during the GOP chairmanship race for Porter County we had 100-200 local readers a day. Would be nice to see that swell as authors increase and residents begin using this site for analysis of news that the Times or Post may not dig into.
- Thanks to all the inbound links we have received over the last three years. Great sites from all over the county, and a few from overseas, give us the thumbs up and we sure appreciate your attention.
Thanks
Steve
