I just remembered. I started what has now become The WGOM five years ago today!
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Happy Birthday!!!!I just remembered. I started what has now become The WGOM five years ago today! This entry was posted by SBG
on Friday, July 17th, 2009 at 9:28 am and is filed under Miscellaneous. It is one of 3041 entries by the author.
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Cup of CoffeeA Super Bowl between Indianapolis and New Orleans is the highest rated TV show, ever. Whatever my complaints are about the NFL, I have to admit that they've done a great job of marketing the entire league -- not just four or five franchises. And they've also seemingly gotten past their annual bugaboo -- a dreadful Super Bowl that's over before halftime. They would be idiots to have a lockout. Citizens Online38 Users Online WGOM Engagement AreaLog InRetired WGOM Jokes
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Happy birthday!
We should all go to Friday's for lunch today. I love it when they sing happy birthday there!!
"You're the Birthday, You're the Birthday, You're the Birthday Boy Or Girl"
Or website. Happy birthday to the WGOM!
Will the WGOM start kindergarten this fall, or are you gonna home-school?
Gonna hold it back... still producing "Bill Callahans".
Happy birthday! This is such a wonderful site. Thanks, SBG.
Con-grat-u-lay-shuns!
"You can say dat again, two times."
Happy birthday to the WGOM, Boss.
5 years seems pretty impressive for a blog. What percentile do you suppose the WGOM falls in for blongevity?
Well, I would say that it's absolutely in the 95th percentile. Most blogs die in the first month. Very few last to a year. A lot of the famous ones, of course, last a long time. Of course, in the Twins blogosphere, there are two monsters Aaron and Seth, that were around when I started and are still around. Twins Geek hasn't been continuous and he's been around different spots. I don't know of any other Twins blogs that have been around as long as this one.
Yeah, considering how many blogs die after a week or so, you're probably more like the 99th percentile. It seems like it's easy to get a skewed perception of the typical blog lifespan since the ones that are most often visited are (naturally) the ones that have been around for a while.
Okay, here's some information on the topic (from September 2008):
So, at the time of the article, fully 2/3 of all blogs ever created were abandoned. The longest running of those was 923 days, which is less than three years. The average length of those that survived more than a day was 126 days, or four months. Bottom line, if you look at the entire universe of blogs, this one has been a long runner, easily in the 95th percentile.
Most blogs also have about as much meat as a fruitfly.
I think that I had a stuffed fruit fly at Good Fellows once. Not saying the portion sizes were small there, but...
Waitress: "How's the fruit fly tasting?"
SBG: "Is it eating? I thought it was already stuffed."
Heck, in eight more months the WGOM will have exceeded George's lifespan.
Happy Birthday WGOM! Here's to many more.
Congrats, SBG!
As for blog lifespans, I would bet quite a bit that you're in the 99th percentile. Hell, you're probably in the 95th percentile even among Twins blogs. Our little group has had a ton of long-running sites for whatever reason, but there are still dozens that never made it past a couple months. Expand that to the entire blogging world and my guess is that you're probably more like 99.9th percentile.
Anyway, I just wanted to say congrats. This site has always had my favorite comments section, much to my site's chagrin (and despite a few of you guys turning on me recently!). Keep up the good work. One day maybe I'll get a life and you'll move up one spot on the tenure list.
Dude, I swear we're not turning on you, it's your comments section that's getting tough to stomach. Well, for me, anyway. I guess I can't speak for everyone.
Seconded.
bunted!!
Thanks, buddy! I'm always glad when you stop by.
It's always great to see him over here, but let's get Aaron to fix his avatar. It's really disconcerting to see his name beneath that mug.
I'm not sure his old one would be an improvement.
Yep that's six of one, 600 pounds of another.
Congrats, Boss.
Boss, you should be proud of this labor of love! Who ever thought that procrastination could ever bear such fruit?
not sure where blog comment section is, but Happy Birthday, WGOM
Congratulations on your first lustrum, SBG!

You know what they say, "The first lustrum is the hardest." Or is it the next lustrum? I'm not sure.