A moment in the life of this blog and some linky love

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Wow, the first of the month really snuck up on me this time.

My top EntreCard droppers over the last 31 days are the following. Thank you to each and every one of you.

WindMill on the Hill
Foodie, Travel and Shutter Bug
The Junk Drawer
Photography by KML
Cromely's World
The Half-Life of Linoleum
Montana Moods
Blackholes and Astrostuff
Photojounalist!
Through the Lens

My top commenters on this site are the following. Thank you for keeping the discussion going. I appreciate every word you leave for me.

1. My Bug Life (27)
2. fragileheart (16)
3. Shinade (12)
4. Daisy (10)
5. Digital Polaroids (7)
6. Bob Johnson (7)
7. earthlingorgeous (6)
8. kml (6)
9. Lisa (4)
10. Bear Naked (4)

Other Miscellaneous blog stuff
Since I started this blog on Sept. 16, 2008 this site has had:

Total Number of Posts: 50
Unique Visits (Sitemeter): 2,768
Unique Visits (Google Analytics): 3,084
Pageviews (Sitemeter): 3,608
Pageviews (Google Analytics): 4,314
Number of Google Followers: 13

My 10 most popular posts so far are the following:

Red-hot glare
A clear day
Creative Photography gone Askew
Balloon Watch
Sky gazing
Rain
A city of neighborhoods
November Rain
O is for.. bOkeh visiOns
King of Autumn

Also in the past month, I added an Amazon Associate box to the bottom of the page featuring popular photography-related items, plus I added a Google Ads box in the lower right corner, and am hoping it sticks to photography topics. I'm not expecting much from these ad widgets, but since I was already signed up with my other blog, I thought I'd put them on the page.

August EntreCard Link Love

I usually try to do this on the 15th of the month, but I'm a few days late with it this time.

A big, hearty thank you to the 10 sites that dropped the most EntreCards here in the past month:

On the Bricks
Mama Flo's Place
1 Blog and 2 Sides
Better Information, Better Health
Blogging MoRe
Passport2Cruising
Cromely's World
Everything Has A Reason
Zental Floss
Not Your Average SuperGoddess

If you can, check out their sites. Tell them Haley sent you. Or don't. :P

July linky love and SezWho

It's link love time, when I get to publicly thank those Entrecard top droppers for the past month.

So, in no particular order, I'd like to thank the following people/sites for visiting me.

Aerten Art
MamaFlo's Place
On the Bricks
Daisy the Curly Cat
Cromely's World
Work at Home Mom Revolution
Blogging MoRe
Sharp Words
Not Your Average SuperGoddess
Doodle Week

As an added bonus, I've added their Entrecards and links to their sites across the bottom of my page. Hopefully, throughout the next month, you'll take a moment and visit their sites.

I apologize. I really want to recognize my top commenters for this past month in this post, but I'll have to save that for a future date. It's very time-consuming to compile the list by hand and I'm way behind in things today.

In other Entrecard news: 

"Thanks to Entrecard, blogging just got a whole lot better!"

There's something about that headline that just doesn't fit the tone of this blog, so I'm not going to use it.

But, I will say that I've installed SezWho, which you'll see in the commenting section of any of my posts. It has stars so you can rate the post and the comments. I'm not really into rating features, but I'm willing to give SezWho the old college try. Why did I install it? Check out the Entrecard blog for an explanation.

I'm curious what you think of Sezwho on this blog, so I've posted a poll in the right column. Take a few seconds and vote, please and thank you. Or just leave a comment. Or do both.

A Beacon Time Capsule - April 13-19

A brief look at where this blog has been:

A year ago, I was blogging about:
I was on a blogging hiatus.


Two years ago, I was blogging about:

Acting class = surprisingly fun -- about my attempt to shake things up in my life by taking an acting class.

'Shout out for my homiez' -- my first attempt at link love.

Dead trees with print on them? -- about the future of newspapers.

Family outing and Parking (?) at the outlet mall -- about an excursion with my mother and sister.

Remembering the Great Quake -- about the anniversary of the San Francisco Earthquake.

Prior to that:
This blog didn't yet exist, but I back-posted an article from April 13, 2004, titled Frustration with contests, about my results in a love-scene writing contest.