An annual report to our faithful blog viewers

This year roughly 438 items were posted on the blog and we had 46,466 visitors or an average of 3,872 per month or 129 per day.

The busiest week this year was March 6 with an average 157 visitors a day or 1,096 for the week.

The leanest week was July 4 with an average of 106 visitors a day or 739 for the week.,

A look back:

To see how the blog has grown, check out this December 31, 2005 post:

The BJ Retirees blog (web log) has caught on with some of you. We are averaging 28 visitors a day or nearly 200 each week. There have been more than 8,350 visitors since the blog started in July, 2004. There were only 1,120 visits in 2004 (the first six months) and 7,180 visits this year alone. There have been 349 items posted on the blog since the beginning including 88 the first six months and 259 this year. Visitors have taken a look at more than 11,000 pages on the blog since July 2004.

A bit of Blog History:

Harry Liggett,  a March, 1995 retiree of the News Desk,  started keeping a list that year of email addressess of retired and former BJ employees.  A corrected list was emailed each month along with obits and other BJ news. As the list grew, bulk mailing became cumbersone and also did not allow use of photos., A blog (web log)  was opened in July, 2004.  We have  viewers from LA, D.C.,  New York, Paris, Canada, New Zealand and other points around the globe..   News of Beacon Journal alums  along with. breaking news and photos about the Beacon Journal and other news media is posted daily  to the blog. Our website, established in September, 2006,  is used for longer items and commentary.  The name of the  blog and  website originally was BJ Retirees, The name was changed to BJ Alums on October 14, 2008 to better reflect our viewers.
Records:: 100,000th visit was October 31, 2008.  The 1776 post entered same day.

The number of visitors by month during the last year of this decade::

January    4,146
February    4,056
March    4,681
April    3,996
May    4,044
June    3,904
July    3,605
August    3,435
September    3,624
October    3,751
November    3,675
December    3,549