Crankyjewishguy Marks One Month in the Blogosphere!

Today, crankyjewishguy (CJG) marks one month in the blogosphere which means he's been blogging almost as long as a certain politician served as governor of Alaska. What you may not know is that the technology that allows you to blog also allows you to see where visitors to your blog are coming from. No, CJG can't tell you exactly how may times his friend Ann Marie has been to his site, or even that Ann Marie has been to his site (except she said she was), but he can tell you, by country, who has been reading CJG and how people are finding him.

By far, most visitors are from the United States. No surprise there. Next are Canada, Singapore, the U.K. and Croatia. Let's hear it for Croatia! But the occasional visitor has also shown up from The Netherlands, Israel, Germany, France, Russia and even Cambodia. They love Jewish jokes in Cambodia.

And by far the biggest source of "traffic," as they say in the blogging biz, is Facebook which, as you surely know, was inspired by a movie called The Social Network.

But all of this begs the question: how many people are actually reading CJG? According to the data, CJG has had approximately 1,450 page views, not counting his own in the first month. If you count his own, the total goes up to 6,461,877,931,831 as you can see from this electronic tabulator in Times Square.

Now, 1,450 may sound OK for being just a month out of the gate, but CJG suspects that when you factor in repeat visitors all of his labors are actually entertaining an audience of dozens, most of them people he knows. But CJG is not deterred. He's going to keep at it until he can safely say there isn't a man, woman or child on Earth who hasn't heard of CJG, or until all this snow melts. It's gonna be close.