SKF NOTE: Running my YTD blog stats this morning, visitors and views were up from 2022. Fourteen percent increase in visitors with a 22 percent hike in blog post views. That is, on average, every 2023 visitor looked at two blog posts.

Thank you.

Some of my blog posts, particularly audio posts, are cross-posted on my Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram pages with direct links to my YouTube page. So, while “Neil Peart on Music and Writing Pt. 1” was viewed for the first time in 2023 on my blog 341 times, it was viewed during 2023 on YouTube 74,203 times.

I am pleasantly surprised to see that my friend, Barry Keane, has the #2, #3, and #10 spots among the list of my most viewed blog posts in 2023. Very cool.

Starting in 2024 I will enable the comments function on my blog. That’s one way more I can be in closer touch with people. My only caveat is, if the comments become more of a portal for spammers than for interested blog visitors, I reserve the right to going back to keeping in touch with visitors by email.

Onward and upward!