happy end of may/start of summer!

May was a good month for this blog. Actually, 2008 has been a great year for this blog. Much love to the 500 visitors this month, and huge love the 12 or so of you who visited more than once this month, especially Navneet, Lo, Karl, Ev, and Beau. Beau is like my informal copy-editor, and will be getting a beer on me next time I'm in DC.

Half of my very modest traffic comes from two places: Navneet's Eat Pistachios. Now. and the APIA Blog Network. Thanks for pulling me from the ether! As to the latter, APIA Blog Network is a great resource for keeping track of APIA news, culture, and thinking, and I highly recommend it. One of my favorite people there is the author of Power & Politics, who was one of the first folks from the Network that commented on my site. The site is on temporary hiatus, but I hope it's back and running at full soon.

As you can see from the sidebar stats, hsuperpolitical has been around since 2004. It is my first solo-blog, and as such has had growing pains in terms of posting frequency, with a low of only 60 posts in all of 2006, including the very sad month of June that year, when I posted only once.

To the contrary, here we are at the end of only the fifth month of 2008 and already at 118 posts this year, making this already the most prolific posting year I've had (previously 104 in 2005). I've made it a goal to post at least 20 times a month, and at the current pace should end the year with over 250 posts. This month has been particularly awesome; at 30 posts, it's far and away my best month yet, with almost daily posting on average.

I may scale down on posting frequency in order write some big essay-like posts I've had floating around in my head for a while. Or not. We'll see.

Anyway, thanks for reading, and come visit again soon!