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Five Thousand Hits

4:42 PM Friday, November 11, 2005

[Was Holly Golightly a feminist?]

Yesterday at 5:34 PM local time, somewhere in Illinois, a Microsoft Windows XP user searched Google for the phrase "breakfast at tiffany's feminism". An interesting search. Was Holly Golightly a feminist? Was Truman Capote a feminist? But that's not the point. When the unidentifiable user hit the "enter" key, history was made. History, that is, for this modest little weblog. That user, you see, by following a link on the Google page, became the five thousandth visitor to Jonathan's Coffeeblog.

You Coffeeblog old-timers out there, those of you who were looking at this weblog back in April, will remember this little item about the first thousand visits. And then there was the discovery of Jonathan's Coffeeblog by Scott Beale, of Laughingsquid, the web hosting service which also hosts Boing Boing, a weblog which probably gets 5000 hits an hour. And the first anniversary of Jonathan's Coffeeblog has not even arrived.

No, five thousand visitors is not a lot as big-time blogging goes. But for me it's a lot. I'm especially pleased with the international readership of the ol' Coffeeblog: 22% of the visitors use a language other than English on their computer, and the world map distribution shows heavy visiting across North American and Western Europe, with Japan, the Anzac countries, and all continents but Antactica represented. A lot of readers discovered the Coffeeblog through Google, but quite a few were referred by Eastgate Systems, who make Tinderbox, and by Laughing Squid and Berkeley Bloggers. (My data come from the folks at Sitemeter.) So on the occasion of this Coffeeblog milestone, I want to tell my readers, "Thank you, thank you, thank you. And come back soon."

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