One-Year Blogiversary

I started this blog one year ago today, and according to the secret blogger by-laws (bloglaws), I am contractually obligated to post about it and crow-bar in an amalgam of the word “blog” and another word as much as possible.

I’m excited to see that fully one-third of my blog audience (blogdience) is from outside of my home country of the United States.  In fact, I have had readers from 84 countries so far.  (Depending on who you ask, there are about 196 countries in the world.  Seems like there should be a definite number for that, no?)

My readership in my first year.

I have posted 43 times (not including my welcome post, this post, or other pages), for a total of 44,360 published blog words (blogrds).

Its been an interesting experience for me so far.  I didn’t really know what to expect when I started this blog, and frankly I still don’t.  From the beginning, I knew I wanted to incorporate as much science (blogsci) and useful advice (blogvice) as possible into my blog, and avoid a beer tasting blog- there are others out their who could do a better job of that than me.

For the near future at least, I foresee continuing with this general formula.  I would like to add more reader Q&A (blogqua), ideally making it a semi-regular off-Wednesday feature post.  I am excited to add a new product review component soon- I was recently asked to review a newly published book.

I’d love to get some feedback from my readers: what would you like to see?  What have I done that I shouldn’t in the future?  Email or leave comments (blogcom) with your questions or suggestions; I hear its really easy!  (No sign in required, even.)  And remember, the best form of flattery (blogflat) is to follow me and tell a friend or spread the word online.

Here’s to a great year, and many more to come.  Happy fermenting!

– Dennis,
Life, Fermented

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