Belated Happy Birthday!

I’ve been so busy I completely forgot to wish us a Happy Birthday! On May 15th Savage Minds turned one year old! After one year we have about 436 people visiting the website each day, and 439 people subscribed to our RSS feed. 38 percent of those people visiting our web page are returning visitors. Our Technorati rank is 10,409 (389 links from 158 sites), which isn’t bad when you consider that they track 39.9 million sites.

One thing these statistics show is that Savage Minds is a community – even though many people may never post a comment, we have many regular readers who’ve added us to their bookmarks, blogroll or feed reader. I find myself learning a tremendous amount from the excellent commentary left by our readers and I’m sure that this is one reason why many people read Savage Minds. Moreover, this community extends to the many new anthropology blogs that have been created in the past year.

I’d like to take this occasion to ask our readers for their suggestions. How would you like to see Savage Minds grow over the next twelve months? Are there guest bloggers you’d like to see? Features we should add? Topics or books we should be discussing? Please let us know.

4 thoughts on “Belated Happy Birthday!

  1. There are 7 of us over here reading the LiveJournal scrape . . . so make that 445 subscribed to the feed! (the scrape looks like 1 and is 7)

  2. Congratulations to everyne — this is definitely a fantastic project and one of the best I’ve been involved with on the web.

  3. Congratulations. What I would like to see a lot more on Savage Minds is novice oriented posts. There is some amazing insight that can be derived here but a lot of your user base should ideally bought up to a level that understands this well.

  4. Aayush,

    Thanks. One of the goals of this site was to break out of the narrow confines of Anthropological discourse and engage a wider audience. Hopefully non-specialists will feel comfortable joining the discussion!

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