I've been your webmaster for two weeks now and I thought I'd give y'all a little report from my standpoint.

Comments

Comments are going very well. We reached 150 (published) comments last night. The person with the most comments is... myself. But that doesn't really count since it's literally my job, so the honor should really go to TM Lutas. Thanks, TM for all of your thoughtful comments and content. (Not to mention the fact that his comments add much more to the conversation than my more 'social' comments.)

When I originally opened comments up, Bill L asked me to report in a couple of weeks on how many commenters I've had to ban. The answer is: no one who's not a spam-bot. So thanks, everyone for playing nice. We've had some disagreements, but that's obviously part of worthwhile dialogue. In fact, we could stand to have more civil disagreements.

Amazon Connect

Tom's Plog launched at Amazon Connect this week. The way I understand it, if you've purchased PNM or BFA from Amazon, you'll get Tom's Plog posts on your Amazon home page by default. Otherwise you have to change your settings to get them automatically. Beyond that, you have to view Tom's books or profile to find his Plog. I've been crossposting one post per day over there with links back here. 106 people have taken the trouble to vote on whether or not they like the post. That's more interaction with the material (albeit on a low level), than I figured we'd get.

Statistics

We average more than 6300 sessions per day with an average of over 9 minutes. That's pretty sticky, from what I've seen in the weblogging world.