Happy Anniversary! 
Blog for Iowa is Two Months Old!

OK,
I promise I won't do this every month, but we're so new, I just had to
do it one more time.  Pull out the bragging rights for all our
DFIA members who have been working so diligently to spread the word
about Blog for Iowa!

More Potentially Interesting Statistics

To recap from May 1st, our one-month anniversary:

Distinct Hosts Served: 
This is a count of individual computers that accessed at least one page
of Blog for Iowa during any one day or month.  By “distinct” they
mean that if the same computer accesses Blog for Iowa more than once,
it will still count as only one computer.  This figure can be used
to estimate the number of readers, but it counts computers, not people.

Distinct Hosts Served in April, 2004:  2830
Distinct Hosts Served in May, 2004:  4314

Number of Page Views in April, 2004:  7362
Number of Page View in May, 2004:  13,425

Average Number of Hosts Served Per Day in April, 2004:  94
Average Number of Hosts Served Per Day in May, 2004:  139

Biggest Day:  April 21, Hosts Served = 203,
Page Views = 411
Biggest Day:  May 3, Hosts Served = 276,
Page Views = 463

Number of Articles Posted in April:  97
Number of Articles Posted in May:  103

Most Viewed Topic in April:  Photos
Most Viewed Topic in May: 
It was a tie!  Far and away, these two topics led the pack:
Candidates and Iowa in the News.  Well, I guess we know what
people are coming to Blog for Iowa for!

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I was informed about a week ago by our host company, BlogHarbor.com,
that we were blowing our starter package out of the water because of
the amount of traffic.  So, we've upgraded to the larger
package.  BlogHarbor also told me that as far as traffic goes,
Blog for Iowa is near or at the top of the heap of all the blogs using
the blogware system.  They informed me that the number of blogs on
the system is in the low thousands.  You just can't keep those
Dean supporters down!  Of course, we're nothing compared to the
blog of the mothership, Blog for America, but we're holding our own for a little blog.  Now, if we could only get more people to post comments!

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Just
a few other things to update you on.  You may have noticed that I
finally figured out how to post a photo.  The key was to use a
different browser.  The photo post feature does not work for me
when I use Internet Explorer, so I switched to Mozilla.  Far
superior.  However, the remove a photo feature does not work on
Mozilla, so I have to use IE for that!  It's always something, but
I am getting better at figuring out how to work around the little buggy
things like that.

And
Alison over at Blog for America finally has the State Group listserv up
and running, which means that the State Groups have a means of instant
communication.  This has been very helpful as we are no longer
stuck in No Man's Land.

Lastly, just yesterday, Blog for America posted a photo of Howard Dean in a Hawaiian shirt.  I kid you not.  Go here to see it.  Surely, you didn't expect me to stay on topic, did you?  What kind of a blog would that be?  LOL

Many
thanks to those of you who have turned in articles and suggestions for
Blog for Iowa.  You make my job a whole lot easier and I
appreciate your help.  Also, many thanks to all of you who have
been promoting Blog for Iowa with buttons, stickers, and flyers
(available on the right sidebar).  Whatever you're doing, it's
sure working!