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1000!
Over one thousand comments have been written by you, my visitors, so far – thank you very, very much! (And trackbacks/pingbacks and my own comments are not counted, of course; that would have been 1931 at that point, and that’s not a number to celebrate…)
The 1000th is from “Captain Obvious” David in today’s music quiz, his 40th comment – without you and all other 75 recurring commenters (and the over 140 one-timers), it would be quite boring here, so again a big THANK YOU!
Statistics!!!
At statista.com there are numerous statistics data of a lot of German surveys, “over 1 million“, they say – and not just small ones like in some blogs, but real, representative ones by major institutes.
The servers currently seem to ache under the number of visitors…
You can embed the statistics easily – I picked this one as an example:
Do you have a web blog (online diary) of your own?
Unmarried ones are blogging more than in another family status, and, no wonder, young people more than old people:
The differences between the sexes are very low and almost dissolve in rounding errors (men blog a little more), similar to monthly income with intermediate incomes blogging a little less.
Survey by: Institut für Demoskopie Allensbach, January to August 2007, published on 16.10.2007. 7594 German internet users aged 14-64 were asked.
(via Golem)
House advertising
Inspired by the “samples” in the top of the screen at the German blog directory BloggerAmt (and other fades-in/out e.g. for polls), I thought I could add some small announcements and notices of special posts, smoothly faded in and out, on my blog, like this one for my music quiz:
If it doesn’t look for you as on the screenshot, please click “reload” or press F5 in your browser…
At first, I tried it above the main content, but that felt too obtrusive, too distracting – so it’s now at the top of the sidebar.
What do you think of it? Annoying? Too inconspicuous? Just right? Any other opinion? 
Technical note: The items are managed like a blogroll in a separate category, the display is done with a little function integrated into the theme – if you’re interested, » here’s a text file with the code, but, for the time being, only with German instructions (anyone need it in English?).
Update: For a shorter jQuery solution, see this comment.
Myriad
Myriad is a classical Greek name for the number 104 = 10,000. In modern English the word refers to an unspecified large quantity.
Wikipedia
So I’m looking forward to the next myriad of spam comments/trackbacks. Not.
If I wouldn’t change the name of the wp-trackback.php from time to time and block several typical words inside before they even reach Akismet (the spam filter running here), this number would already have been reached a long time ago…
