PhilRenaud.com turns 100!
February 23, 2006: 9:10 PM

That's right! This marks my 100th post here at Phil Renaud dot com. Even though it will show up as /122, keep in mind that early with the database, the overall post count wasn't set to decrease when one deleted an entry for revision. And when it came time to fix this, I had already had some articles being linked to around the web, so it wasn't an optimal idea to change their urls out of the blue.

But yes! This is actually pretty exciting for me, in a starkly nerdy kind of way. You see, I've been pretty committed to this whole "blogging once a day" idea, and even though I really only blog at a rate of 5 times a week or so, it's still miles better than what it was with former sites.

Keeping in mind that I am an active community blogger at a few different sites other than this one, and I have an all-new super secret blog still to be launched in the near future (more on that soon), I think that I'm keeping a pretty steady pace here.

With that, let's take a look back at what the past 100 blogposts have brought.

By the numbers

964: Total number of comments

790: Total number of favourite-adds for philrenaud.com and its articles on del.icio.us (this being the big one)

203: Number of links over at technorati for philrenaud.com

5045: Number of songs filtered through my last.fm player and displayed on the site.


4: The most full days I've gone without blogging since philrenaud.com got started.

What's been popular around here? As far as popular linkage/comments and whatnot, here's the toplist:

The 35 Sexiest Websites You've Forgotten. This is the one that really got things moving around here: I woke up the morning after posting this and instantly felt nauseous. My daily count went from 90 daily uniques to 30,000 daily uniques overnight. In the end, I bought Sean's server a shiney new stick of RAM for being such a good sport about the whole ordeal.

Fantasy Web Development was another big one, but not so much because of the popular acclaim, but rather the critical acclaim: Jeffrey Zeldman added it to his favourites. Shaun Inman added it to his daily links. Web-legends Eric Meyer, Joe Clark, and Mike Rundle all stopped by to comment. It warmed my heart.

Blender Magazine: Praising the Shittiest Shit since 1980. Can't go wrong with a little strongly worded controversy. I think this remains my only article where a good portion of the comments were negative. I loved it!

Eleven things every blogger should do to remain viable. Because, you know, it's useful. Mostly.

Well, I can't go through this without being kind of partial about my own blog. The following five are my favourite posts overall, regardless of how well/poorly they caught on:

Coming of Age has been Weird for me, in which I explain my theory that I am only 21 by the law of averages.

How to Attend a Wedding parts One and Two. Useful information for everybody, really.

About my Name, my most embarassing story ever.

My Weekend as a Film Noir, exposing my rarely seen literary/creative side.

A Brief Overview of all of the Philosophers I've studied. Now, this list is incomplete; I've gotten a lot of reading done since October. At the time, though, this was a lot of fun to write, and go through the database of knowledge that exists within my class-notes.

So, a hundred posts. This is pretty big for me - I've never made it this far with a site. I'm pumped - can't wait to get working on the next hundred!

Thanks for all my readers, commenters, emailers and linkers: You guys make blogging more worthwhile every day.

Thanks for the comments: Andrew Faulkner, Rewr, SD, Osman, Damon Z (PS: Ruby on Rails, while relatively quiet just a few years ago, Damon, has really taken off with the emergence of the new-web. It's fun to learn, honest), Don.

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