Now this year is a whole week old, I thought I’d take you waaay back in time to 2010, back when I had this little blog… OK, you got me, it’s the same blog.
Anyway, I’ve been reading ‘best of’ blogs around the place, and people have been sharing stats of all sorts, (a simple way to flesh out a post during that period between Xmas and New Year when no one wants to have to do any real work. Guilty as charged, but not in the aforementioned time frame. Me? I just disappeared in between parties…) so I thought I’d post about the two biggest days of my year, last year.
These posts represent the days that saw most amount of clicks on my site for the year. Not what I expected, but interesting to note. Maybe? OK, so I’m not convinced that sharing such info is anything more than a self serving reminder of past glories, but I reviewed the stats and when I had a read of these posts I figured out they have something in common. They’re both long, and they critique events that are not specifically jewellery related. Coincidence?
Anyway, they were the posts Critiquing Criticism on the 10th of September (admittedly I also blogged two lines about going to the opening of Bad Beasts Do Not Harm Me by Natalia Milosz-Piekarska & Karla Way that day…) and out and about on the 4th of October.
I don’t review or critique every show/event I go to. I write when I feel that I have something specific to say about what I’ve seen, and I’m more inclined to write when I don’t think that another blogger will talk about it, or when in the writing that has appeared, there wasn’t a jewellist’s perspective. So yes, I am pretty chuffed that a couple of times when I did take the time to write long critiques last year, they got read. Or at least clicked on 😉