hard deadlines goes mobile, racks up visits

By John McDaid | Friday, 16 October 2009

Friday night is the perfect news lull to test out a new feature — if you're reading this on a BlackBerry®, iPhone®, or other mobile device, you should be seeing a lower-bandwidth version of the site. It's a first step in an ongoing redesign effort occupying my copious free time between work and meetings. (If today were nicer, we would have been at the Corn Maze tonight...)

Also in the navel-gazing department, sometime in the last week the site passed 100,000 visits since I turned on the sitemeter tracking widget in mid 2006. Normally, I don't put a lot of stock in large round numbers, but, as I said, it's a slow Friday night.

Thanks, everyone, for spending some of your time here.

Tags: 
Localblogging, 02871, Drupal

Comments

Maddie_C

Sat, 10/17/2009 - 5:31pm

I don't always agree with your opinions, but you run a fine blog. On election nights hard deadlines always has the results of the local races first, and you cover the school committee and town council more closely than anyone. Congratulations on 100,000 visits!

John McDaid

Sat, 10/17/2009 - 7:02pm

Hi, Maddie...
Thanks for the kind words. I have to say that I think the Sakonnet Times does a great job too, and I sure miss having somebody from the Providence Journal around to keep me on deadline (I used to do my best to beat Gina Macris online after Council meetings.)

Cheers.
-j