I asked the readers of my monthly newsblast six questions on 21 November. Two were about their age and sex, one was about how they felt about the future of wildlife in the UK, and three were about politics. Here are the responses of 464 people up until I closed the poll yesterday at 6pm…
Category: This blog and its milestones
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This blog (10) – from here on
This blog, Standing up for Nature, is run by Mark Avery and has provided content for over a decade: 8,443 posts so far and 8.2m pageviews. From now on, 21 April 2021, this blog will post only at weekends with authored posts by Mark Avery, guest blogs and book reviews. All existing content will remain….
This blog (6) – your comments
A blog without comments looks like it isn’t read or doesn’t interest the world. Over the last decade this blog has received just under 76,000 comments on its over 8,000 blog posts – in round numbers that’s around 20 comments a day and getting on for 10 comments per post. I’ve read every single one…
This blog (2)
Things that happened during the last decade: 2011: First blog here First guest blog here by the still unknown-to-most-people, Mr White – the first of nearly 400 guest blogs published to date (this blog will still accept guest blogs) I travel across the USA and then come back I start writing a monthly column for…
This blog (1)
If you visit this blog a week today, on 22 April, you won’t find a new post here as this blog is downsizing for 6 months – and then I’ll decide what to do next. If that comes as a complete shock to you, as it has to a few people I’ve spoken to over…
The future of this blog
This blog is 9 years, 11 months and 1 day old. On 21 April it will undergo a significant downshift for at least six months. From 22 April I will not normally post any material from Monday-Friday inclusive. At weekends I will post any guest blogs that have captured my attention and I will continue…
Future of this blog
In about two months’ time this blog will downsize considerably, for at least several months but quite possibly for ever. I’ve said this several times but, perfectly reasonably, not everyone reads every post here every day! I’ve been told I won’t do this, that I shouldn’t do this and that I mustn’t do this, but…
8 million pageviews
Yesterday this blog passed another milestone – 8 million pageviews since 21 April 2011. That first post was unexceptional, but one has to start somewhere, and its title, Don’t let them get away with it, might well have become a watchword for this blog. It took me couple of months before I got Google Analytics…
January a busy month
At 95,000+ pageviews, January 2021` was 17% busier than the previous January and the second busiest (just failing to be first) for the 10 Januaries this blog has existed. Just a reminder, when we get to April this blog is going to disappear, at least for months, quite possibly for ever. But I am getting…