The northlondonhippy

I want to take a moment to say a spe­cial thank you…to you…all of you!

Novem­ber 2008 was a record month here at the northlondonhippy.com, with more vis­i­tors than ever stop­ping by and hang­ing out with me here in my vir­tual realm.

Last month saw the num­ber of peo­ple com­ing here increase around 35%, which is the best sus­tained growth over a month I’ve ever had. Give your­selves a big fat round of applause for that!

I do get the occa­sional spike, when some­thing I’ve writ­ten is picked up by other sites, but in gen­eral the num­ber of peo­ple vis­it­ing remains fairly con­stant. In Novem­ber, I noticed steady gains start­ing on the US elec­tion day, when I live blogged my lit­tle heart out and the num­bers just kept con­tin­u­ing to rise after that.

I don’t know exactly why and to be hon­est, it doesn’t mat­ter. I just keep doing what­ever it is I do here, regardless.

A few vague sta­tis­tics for you:

40% of vis­i­tors in Novem­ber book­marked my site

28% of vis­i­tors in Novem­ber sub­scribe to my site via RSS feed readers

10% of vis­i­tors spent 1 hour or more surf­ing my site

Cool, eh?

My site is about as inde­pen­dent as a site can be. It’s just me, a word proces­sor, an inter­net con­nec­tion and a col­lec­tion of deep per­son­al­ity flaws keep­ing this place tick­ing over. My over­heads for pro­duc­ing con­tent are very low. So are the finan­cial gains, but I’ve never been inter­ested in doing this for the money. Good thing, really, though I do cover my exter­nal costs.

So what can my ever increas­ing audi­ence expect from me in the future?

I’m work­ing on my xmas gift buy­ing guide and I have a few very cool rec­om­men­da­tions for you of prod­ucts I’ve pur­chased recently includ­ing a pocket-sized hi-def video cam­era that won’t break the bank and a herbal vapor­iser that might, along with a few other seri­ously cool toys.

I’m plan­ning a day of hippy-online-availability, where for one day, I will be logged into every con­ceiv­able instant mes­sen­ger ser­vice and web­site known to man and avail­able for chat­ting. I’ll log into Yahoo, MSN, AOL, Face­book, MySpace, GoogleTalk and any­one who wants to com­mu­ni­cate with me, can. Think of it as an exper­i­ment in con­nect­ing with as many peo­ple as pos­si­ble, 21st century-style. I’ll talk to any­one about any­thing. Watch this space for the announcement.

This March will mark my 5th anniver­sary as a blog­ger and I am try­ing to think of a suit­able way to mark the occa­sion. Oral sex is always in good taste, if any of you hot women out there are feel­ing gen­er­ous. Don’t worry, Mrs. H will under­stand, since it is in the best inter­ests of fos­ter­ing bet­ter rela­tions with my core audi­ence. Plus, she can take the photos.

Beyond that, you’ve still got me and my weird and won­der­ful stream of con­scious­ness, nar­cis­sis­tic bull­shit to share with you on a semi-regular basis. What’s not to love?

I’m the hippy you all adore
because I am a com­plete media whore!

I’ll always try to make you laugh
and make you think
and make you wish you were a hippy too!

Thanks again for stop­ping by. This is one place where you will always be welcome!

I’d love to stay and blog all day, but I need to cel­e­brate this occa­sion in the appro­pri­ate fash­ion and this juicy, skunky spliff ain’t gonna smoke itself. Bye.

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