With all due respect to Kevin O’Keefe who posts today that when Measuring law blog success: Web stats are not the answer, I’m still going to celebrate breaking the 10,000 total hits threshold!  It happened yesterday and if nothing else, it’s a nice benchmark from which to look back over the last six months.

When I started this blog, I didn’t even know where to go to make it happen.  Hat tip to Eric Wittenberg - who in addition to being a fine Ohio lawyer, is also a Civil War historian who publishes the Rantings of a Civil War Historian - who helped me get started and explained some of the basic stuff to me.

I’m not sure if I knew anything about Google Reader when I started and I know I had no idea what an RSS feed was and why anyone would care.  Since then I’ve become quite the evangelist for Google Reader and am continually somewhat flabbergasted to find how few of my acquaintances have ever heard of it.  And now I don’t know what I’d do without RSS feeds to save time.  

I’ve also recently become acquainted with Google Notebook and its amazing usefulness both for bloogin purposes and for general practice purposes.

And, yes, I’ve had fun doing the blog to such an extent I find myself sometimes wanting to do it rather than whatever billable work I’m supposed to be doing at the time.

So here’s to continuing the journey…