Friday, February 05, 2021

MindBlog's 15th birthday

Mindblog has been chugging along for 15 years, it's contents reflecting what I find interesting and am reading about at the moment. It seems a waste to not pass on stuff I like, in the hope that others find it interesting. A few of the posts are my own ruminations, but most are large re-tweets or clips from articles, sometimes with a few comments thrown in.

There have been 5,056 posts. I don't follow the analytics, but for the occasion of this post I've clicked "Stats" in the Blogger menu and see that ~1,000 people view MindBlog each day. Feedburner indicates ~1.8 million total views (but when I looked several years ago it said ~4 million, so go figure...). Every week I get several emails requesting advertisement, external article, or link placements -  to which I reply with my boilerplate 'no thank you' response.

In previous birthday posts I've occasionally gnashed my teeth over whether I should continue doing the blog, and focus my time on longer projects.  I realize, however, that even if readership dropped to zero I would probably continue to do postings, because this provides a disciplined and simple way to archive my thinking and reading over time.  I have found the search box in the left column to be an invaluable tool when I want to recall ideas or get background material relevant to starting up a new talk or project.


12 comments:

  1. Anonymous1:00 AM

    thanks a lot for sharing, please never stop

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  2. Happy birthday.
    Please keep it up :)
    Best regards
    Heribert

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  3. Enhorabuena.
    Please keep it going.
    Best regards
    Heribert

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  4. Deric,

    Our jobs and careers may appear so disparate (I'm a professional mariner), but I've found that we seek the same thing, to know more about and seek to understand human behaviour. I hope all people, especially young people would read what you are reading. Keep it up forever, I know you have contributions to make for that long.

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  5. Happy Birthday!

    Please keep going. Your posts are informative, intriguing, occasionally very provoking, and valued.

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  6. I am very grateful for the positive comments. They motivate me to keep on slugging away!

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  7. Thank you, and yes for my part, keep it rolling.

    This has been a source of some great material - with informed commentary - which has moved my thinking which I may not have got to otherwise.

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  8. Please keep it up. Your RSS feed is by far the most consistently interesting of the ~50 or so blogs and journal subscriptions in my "Neuroscience" folder. I often read the papers and books you review, like "How Emotions are Made: The secret life of the brain" most recently. And even if I don't agree (some emotions do have universal motor expressions) they're always thought provoking.

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  9. I will use "enhorabuena" too!
    Keep publishing, I always find interesting the papers you share.

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  10. Thank you so much for doing this.
    Your "young brother blog" of ten years old,
    www.thebrain.mcgil.ca ;-)

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    1. Thanks for your support, and I should point out a typo in your URL, It needs another l... should be www.thebrain.mcgill.ca

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  11. Congrats and thanks! Your posts are a always a highlight in my RRS feeds.

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