40,000 Milestone Achieved.

Today I reached an important Milestone.  My blogsite clicked over 40,000 views.  Yes I know, small fry to some but for me a significant milestone indeed.

I started blogging as a side interest back on April 15^th 2011 and in response to a friend’s efforts about an ACC incident.  I didn’t blog in earnest to start with, but as time went on, and my interests diversified, I found I had a voice, and one that was appreciated in some circles.  Still the blog just ticked along view wise for the first two years.  I think in that time I amassed a huge readership of about 4.000 or so.  No not big in blog terms but huge for me.  Then in 2013 I joined Twitter and loved the 140 character format.  Short, sharp and direct.  But I also found I couldn't expand on those tweets so started blogging my thoughts and posting them on Twitter (the blog links that is).  Initially it was about sports mainly, and still is to a certain degree, but I also found I could express my own views on life, especially concerning how I felt about New Zealand society.

My viewership exploded!!  Sure sometimes I’d be disheartened about the responses to the blogs, on Twitter and on the Blogs themselves, but just writing them is cathartic and a lasting legacy if anyone should go back and explore them.

So stats.  Below is a summary of most popular blogs and the countries that read or view them the most.  Some surprising stats here.  Good to see my Mental Health blogs get a lot of attention though.

Most popular:

Is Early Childhood care/learning burning our kids ... 17 Nov 2011, 8 comments	2504
The Psychiatric World of Ward 21 PN Hospital and o... 10 May 2011, 45 comments	2057
The True Cost of Smoking in New Zealand 24 May 2012, 3 comments	754
I'm Michael 30 May 2011, 10 comments	691
The State of Mental Health Wards in this Country 17 Aug 2014, 20 comments	376

Countries by viewership:

United States	13022
New Zealand	8043
France	2346
Ukraine	1556
United Kingdom	1492
Germany	1198
Russia	867
Australia	805
Turkey	543
India	504