It has now been one year since we started Jay P. Greene’s Blog: With Help From Some Friends. With no more than an investment of $15 for domain registration and some time from Matt, Greg, and me, I think we’ve done pretty well over the last year.
We’ve written 507 posts and received 2,184 comments. The site has been viewed a total of 121,567 times (and that doesn’t include us obsessively checking for new comments). Readership started out slow but is now around 13,000 per month.
According to Technorati, JPGB is one of the more influential blogs devoted to education policy. JPGB has an authority rating of 100, which is a measure of the number of other blogs linking to our site in the last 90 days. The more blogs that link to a site the more “authority” it is said to have. As you can see in the list below, JPGB has a Technorati authority rating that trails Joanne Jacobs and Eduwonk, but leads most other education policy blogs.
- Joanne Jacobs 194
- Eduwonk 148
- Jay P. Greene 100
- Bridging Differences 98
- Flypaper 97
- Core Knowledge 95
- The Quick and the Ed 93
- Ed Week’s Politics K-12 89
- This Week in Education 85
- Edwize 74 (most recent available)
- Matthew K. Tabor 65
- D-Ed Reckoning 51
- Edspresso 50
- Sherman Dorn 49
- CF Policyblog 31
- Ed Week’s NCLB Act II 31
- Education Intelligence Agency 22
- Swift and Change Able 20
- Ed is Watching 14
- Reason — Out of Control 13
But our goal has never been to maximize readership. Mostly, we just wanted a platform to express our views directly to others who wanted to see those views. With more than 500 posts, more than 2,000 comments, and hundreds of links from other sites, we ‘ve clearly succeeded.
A close second goal for the blog has been to have an outlet for amusing ourselves and each other. At that we have also clearly succeeded. I’ve had a great time working with Greg and Matt. Thanks for a great year!
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