RK ARCHIVE - RK Diary Stats

As we prepare to shut down RK at the end of December, we're going to be looking at some key statistics and other historical information about this blog. Thanks to Eric for digging into the database and providing me with these stats.

Today, we start with diaries and diarists. Overall, RK has had 17,292 diaries published since its inception. Of these, 6,104 (35%) were written by yours truly (aka, "moi"). :) Rob and Josh wrote 927 and 904, respectively, or about 5% of the total each. After that, we're down to 2% of diaries or lower. All told, the top five RK writers ("Green Miles" and Teacherken rank #4 and #5) accounted for half of all RK diaries over the existence of this blog. The top 10 diarists (Chris Guy, PM, James Martin, Eric and KathyinBlacksburg constitute #6-#10) account for 56% of all RK diaries. And the top 29 diarists (Dan and Teddy are #11 and #12) make up 69% of the total. The remaining 31% of diaries were contributed by the 5,745 registered users of this blog. Thanks to everyone who contributed and helped make RK so successful!

Comments

Wow - I didn't realize I was #2! (Rob - 11/26/2008 3:58:57 PM)

Almost 1000 diaries? Nothing close to Lowell's number, but I guess I've been on here more than I thought! ;)

Believe it or not... (Lowell - 11/26/2008 5:10:24 PM)

...I posted 4 times per day for four straight years. Rob and Josh posted about 0.6 times per day, or 4 times per week, over that period (in fairness, they started posting on the blog several months after I did).

Thanks for running the numbers! (TheGreenMiles - 11/26/2008 6:09:07 PM)

I hadn't realized I'd been posting an average of four times a week since joining in April 2007. So that's where all my free time went! Thanks for inviting me to be a front pager, Lowell. It's been a blast (and will continue to be until you turn this thing off).

If you took total money earned - expenses and divide by total # of diaries (relawson - 11/26/2008 5:11:54 PM)

That would be an interesting statistic. I think many people would scratch "blogger" off of the list of possible professions.

I blog, outside of this blog, with the goal of earning money. But it isn't the blog itself that earns money. It's part of an overall marketing campaign - just another touchpoint. It's the same reason I am writing a book in my profession. The book itself may earn me 10-20k. The consulting fees are much higher.

The motivation for a blog has got to be more than just money. Unless you are Kos - maybe he's making something. But most people do this for something other than that.

Very few political blogs make enough money (Lowell - 11/26/2008 5:19:50 PM)

to support the blogger(s). Certainly Daily Kos, Huffington Post, Talking Points Memo, Drudge do so, but there aren't many others. RK is the largest state-based progressive blog in terms of traffic (last time I checked Sitemeter, anyway), and it's not even close to making enough money to support a blogger, even part time. Maybe in another decade or so, assuming traffic continues to grow, there will be a "business model" for state-based political blogging. But for the time being, there isn't one...not even close!

I was not here at the beginning (teacherken - 11/26/2008 6:07:37 PM)

in fact, I don't think came on board until sometime in 2006. Glad so have been of some use :-) In fact, I am surprised that I wrote that many!

This is cute (KathyinBlacksburg - 11/26/2008 6:23:52 PM)

My grandson just saw the stats and said, "Nanny,there's still time to get some more writing done!"

:-)

But he has a point. So, In a day or two or three, I'll get busy. First things first.

BTW, I realize my outing my other nick-name kinda blows my age cover. Oh, wait, I already blew my cover on that long ago.