Metablog: The Ides of March

I’ve tuned up the look of the blog a bit recently. I created and added a logo. I moved a few things around and added some gadgets. I also renamed a few things, continuing the firearms-related theme found here.

I also came up with a new title for reviews, Ballistic’s Report. Thus far I’ve used it on one, count ’em, one review and read-through. I will certainly do more. FATE Core is on my list, as is revisiting some older GURPS releases, such as Action, which I’ve heard referred as “the most under appreciated publication in GURPS.”

We’ll see!

In addition, something happened last month.

Analytics shows pretty clearly that a control chart of my pageviews would have shifted mid-March. Not sure why (though I’m very glad!) but my traffic routinely pushed through 250 pageviews per day. On April Fool’s Day, I broke my all-time record (no, really – not a joke) with over 700 Blogger-views that day. Perhaps they were all robots; we’ll see what Analytics tells me. Still: more people than I’d have ever expected are dropping by to see what’s up. Of course, Blogger also gives me over 20,000 pageviews to Analytics’ 13,000, a 50% inflation factor. That’s a lot of Robot Overlords – but thanks for dropping by anyway.

I also joined the RPG Blog Alliance, as well as submitted an application to RPG Bloggers, which asks for three months of posting history before you apply. Well, at just under a post per day, on the average, I feel like I’ve kept up my end.

Finally, a word of thanks. I’ve had fewer than five challenging posts – even those disagreeing with me are largely doing it politely. That’s with something like 2,300 unique visitors, assuming that’s accurate. The encouragement of my fellow bloggers and visitors makes this worth doing for me, so again:

Thank you!