Corporate & Securities Law

The State of the Blog, Two Years On

By Ken Adams

With age, birthdays become less important, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that on the second anniversary of this blog (give or take a few days) I’m less inclined to wax lyrical than I was after the first anniversary. But a few stray thoughts come to mind:

I pay little attention to my blog’s statistics. All I care about is whether I’ve been gaining readers. So far, I have been?last month I had over 23,000 pageviews, compared with 14,000 pageviews for April 2007. (I’m under no illusions that those numbers would, in absolute terms, get anyone excited.)

I’m amazed that after two years I still have no trouble finding things to write about. Witness today’s post on such as?fascinating, if I may say so myself. I suspect that over the next couple of years I’ll develop plenty of new material for a third edition of MSCD.

That said, the prospect of having to put together the second edition is what has fueled this blog. It’s no accident that my wrapping up the manuscript for the second edition has coincided with a relative lull in posts.

So what’s next? Well, I’ve been keeping busy roaming the globe giving seminars. That and consulting and teaching will keep me off the streets. But I want to be involved in a document-assembly venture. I’ve made progress in that regard, but obstacles remain. I’ll keep pushing.

And of course I’m looking forward to publication of the second edition of MSCD. It will be exciting. I’m assuming that the production process doesn’t throw up any unpleasant surprises.

You can’t have cyberspace without the occasional glitch. My system for allowing readers to sign up for email updates has been balky over the past couple of weeks. If you can’t get it to work, don’t hesitate to send me an email asking me to sign you up.

Finally, thank you again, readers. It’s late, so I’ll leave it at that for now?the preface to the second edition of MSCD contains a proper thank-you.

Full post as published by AdamsDrafting on June 02, 2008 (boomark / email).