One year anniversary of Tom Faranda’s Folly

I’ve been weblogging for one year. Of course the impetus was to write about my chemotherapy lymphoma treatment, with my (at times other) inane chatter secondary. In total, I have posted 496 times,  have received 239 comments, and many, many, more emails.

I’ve heard from people with lymphoma from around the country and overseas, from as far away as South Africa. The lymphoma information network has linked to this weblog, and in fact someone surfed over from there today.

A couple of other interesting things.

One of the most visited postings is this one – Tom Faranda’s Folly: Adoption and Down’s Syndrome. This seems to be because Yahoo search lists it at #1 if a person types "adoption and Down’s syndrome" into yahoo’s search box. Because the original link in this posting to a CNN article no longer connects, I just updated the posting with links to active services for people looking for information.

Yesterday at 11:15PM when I checked the weblog statistics page, there was a confluence of numbers:

The statistics are from the time I started using typepad as the blogging service in October (I had been using blogspot). Page views is not exactly the number of visitors, since I believe if you hit different links within the weblog that constitutes a page view. I think the number of total visitors is about 2/3’s the number of page views.

Here’s the very first post, Sept. 8 of last year. Tom Faranda’s Folly: First Post  Amongst other things I mentioned my oldest son Joe’s thoughts on his confirmation name. If you have a look, he has decided to be confirmed with the name he was discussing at the time.

I am very pleased I started the weblog. It’s been good for me, good for my family, and judging from emails and comments, helpful to quite a number of people with lymphoma.