Mark Reckons is one year old

Yesterday, this blog passed a milestone. It is now a year since I did my first blogpost as a Lib Dem on here. It was about the BNP leaked membership list by the way and was entitled "BNP List - My Thoughts" and according to my analytics, 4 people read it.

I'm happy to say that the readership has picked up a bit since then and I am very grateful to the more than 40,000 people who have visited this blog in its first year reading over 80,000 pages. The idea that I would get so many people visiting and reading my posts would have seemed improbable to me a year ago and I would also like to thank everyone who has linked to me, tweeted links to me etc. in the last year.

My top 5 posts out of the almost 600 that I have done since I started are:

1. MPs Expenses and safe seats correlation - update / Has our electoral system contributed to the MPs expenses scandal? (I've lumped these two together as they were on the same subject. These posts were what started getting me widespread attention from the blogosphere and some in the mainstream media)
2. I attended Andrew MacKay's meeting and I think his position is now untenable
3. "Commentariat vs Bloggertariat" event review - #eiblogger
4. Fascinating research into public perception of the drugs issue
5. Daniel Hannan's opponents are using playground tactics

Cheers!

(Hattip to Aquafornia for the picture. That was their actual first birthday cake for their blog last year! I might buy one later if I get the chance...).

Parish Notice - Old posts admin

Just a quick note to mention that I have removed the 4 original posts from this blog.

When I first created "Mark Reckons", I was not a member of the Lib Dems and I did 4 posts mainly about electoral reform and Gordon Brown in October 2007. I then did not post again at all until November last year by which point I was a member of the Lib Dems. I therefore consider that the blog in its current form began in November 2008 and having those old posts from its previous incarnation hanging around felt a bit incongruous.

Mark Thompson - "More or Less" safe seats expenses analysis

Well I have just listened to my interview on "More of Less". I thought I came across OK.

They cut loads of what I said out including me mentioning the name of the blog so I thought I would post this entry so anyone searching for Mark Thompson in Google Blog Search or coupled with More or Less will have a chance of finding me (and not as Tim actually mentioned get only results about the director general of the BBC)!

The relevant post pertaining to what I talked about on the programme is here.

If you were listening, please let me know what you think and if you missed it is broadcast again on Sunday at 8:30pm.

I will do a fuller post about my experience going on national radio for the first time soon.