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2015 in blogging

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Crunchy numbers

The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 20,000 times in 2015. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 7 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

There were 234 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 237 MB. That's about 5 pictures per week.

The busiest day of the year was October 1st with 405 views. The most popular post that day was Tales of Olynthus: Spoken and Unspoken.

: Tales of Olynthus: Spoken and Unspoken (1/6)

: Tales of Olynthus: Spoken and Unspoken (2/6)

: Tales of Olynthus: Spoken and Unspoken (3/6)

: Tales of Olynthus: Spoken and Unspoken (4/6)

: Tales of Olynthus: Spoken and Unspoken (5/6)

: Tales of Olynthus: Spoken and Unspoken (6/6)

: Henry Miller’s Timeless Greece through the Drawings of Anne Poor (1/6)

: Henry Miller’s Timeless Greece through the Drawings of Anne Poor (2/6)

: Henry Miller’s Timeless Greece through the Drawings of Anne Poor (3/6)

: Henry Miller’s Timeless Greece through the Drawings of Anne Poor (4/6)

: Henry Miller’s Timeless Greece through the Drawings of Anne Poor (5/6)

: Henry Miller’s Timeless Greece through the Drawings of Anne Poor (6/6)

: Schliemann of Troy: The Story of a Linguistic Genius (1/6)

: Schliemann of Troy: The Story of a Linguistic Genius (2/6)

: Schliemann of Troy: The Story of a Linguistic Genius (3/6)

: Schliemann of Troy: The Story of a Linguistic Genius (4/6)

: Schliemann of Troy: The Story of a Linguistic Genius (5/6)

: Schliemann of Troy: The Story of a Linguistic Genius (6/6)

: Grèce en vogue: A New Wave of American Philhellenism in the 1920s (1/6)

: Grèce en vogue: A New Wave of American Philhellenism in the 1920s (2/6)

: Grèce en vogue: A New Wave of American Philhellenism in the 1920s (3/6)

: Grèce en vogue: A New Wave of American Philhellenism in the 1920s (4/6)

: Grèce en vogue: A New Wave of American Philhellenism in the 1920s (5/6)

: Grèce en vogue: A New Wave of American Philhellenism in the 1920s (6/6)

: A Mycenaean “Matter of Fact”: Part I, Joe Alsop Reports on the Greek Bronze Age (1/6)

: A Mycenaean “Matter of Fact”: Part I, Joe Alsop Reports on the Greek Bronze Age (2/6)

: A Mycenaean “Matter of Fact”: Part I, Joe Alsop Reports on the Greek Bronze Age (3/6)

: A Mycenaean “Matter of Fact”: Part I, Joe Alsop Reports on the Greek Bronze Age (4/6)

: A Mycenaean “Matter of Fact”: Part I, Joe Alsop Reports on the Greek Bronze Age (5/6)

: A Mycenaean “Matter of Fact”: Part I, Joe Alsop Reports on the Greek Bronze Age (6/6)

: Living Like Kings: When the Palace of Prince George Was the Annex of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (1/6)

: Living Like Kings: When the Palace of Prince George Was the Annex of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (2/6)

: Living Like Kings: When the Palace of Prince George Was the Annex of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (3/6)

: Living Like Kings: When the Palace of Prince George Was the Annex of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (4/6)

: Living Like Kings: When the Palace of Prince George Was the Annex of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (5/6)

: Living Like Kings: When the Palace of Prince George Was the Annex of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (6/6)

: Archives from the Trash: The Multidimensional Annie Smith Peck—Mountaineer, Suffragette, Classicist (1/6)

: Archives from the Trash: The Multidimensional Annie Smith Peck—Mountaineer, Suffragette, Classicist (2/6)

: Archives from the Trash: The Multidimensional Annie Smith Peck—Mountaineer, Suffragette, Classicist (3/6)

: Archives from the Trash: The Multidimensional Annie Smith Peck—Mountaineer, Suffragette, Classicist (4/6)

: Archives from the Trash: The Multidimensional Annie Smith Peck—Mountaineer, Suffragette, Classicist (5/6)

: Archives from the Trash: The Multidimensional Annie Smith Peck—Mountaineer, Suffragette, Classicist (6/6)

: The End of the Quartet: The Day the Music Stopped at Ploutarchou 9 (1/6)

: The End of the Quartet: The Day the Music Stopped at Ploutarchou 9 (2/6)

: The End of the Quartet: The Day the Music Stopped at Ploutarchou 9 (3/6)

: The End of the Quartet: The Day the Music Stopped at Ploutarchou 9 (4/6)

: The End of the Quartet: The Day the Music Stopped at Ploutarchou 9 (5/6)

: The End of the Quartet: The Day the Music Stopped at Ploutarchou 9 (6/6)

: "All Americans Must Be Trojans at Heart": A Volunteer at Assos in 1881 Meets Heinrich Schliemann (1/5)

: "All Americans Must Be Trojans at Heart": A Volunteer at Assos in 1881 Meets Heinrich Schliemann (2/5)

: "All Americans Must Be Trojans at Heart": A Volunteer at Assos in 1881 Meets Heinrich Schliemann (3/5)

: "All Americans Must Be Trojans at Heart": A Volunteer at Assos in 1881 Meets Heinrich Schliemann (4/5)

: "All Americans Must Be Trojans at Heart": A Volunteer at Assos in 1881 Meets Heinrich Schliemann (5/5)

: About

: “This Horrible Crime Will Have to be Paid For”: The Sinking of the LUSITANIA (1/6)

: “This Horrible Crime Will Have to be Paid For”: The Sinking of the LUSITANIA (2/6)

: “This Horrible Crime Will Have to be Paid For”: The Sinking of the LUSITANIA (3/6)

: “This Horrible Crime Will Have to be Paid For”: The Sinking of the LUSITANIA (4/6)

: “This Horrible Crime Will Have to be Paid For”: The Sinking of the LUSITANIA (5/6)

: “This Horrible Crime Will Have to be Paid For”: The Sinking of the LUSITANIA (6/6)

Posting Patterns

In 2015, there were 18 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 44 posts.

Best Day

Sunday

with 5 posts total

Attractions in 2015

These are the posts that got the most views on From the Archivist's Notebook in 2015.

1 Henry Miller’s Timeless Greece through the Drawings of Anne Poor 4 comments June 2015
2 Schliemann of Troy: The Story of a Linguistic Genius 3 comments April 2015
3 Grèce en vogue: A New Wave of American Philhellenism in the 1920s 5 comments January 2015
4 Tales of Olynthus: Spoken and Unspoken 4 comments October 2015
5 A Mycenaean “Matter of Fact”: Part I, Joe Alsop Reports on the Greek Bronze Age 0 comments February 2015

How did they find this blog?

The top referring sites in 2015 were:

Where did they come from?

That's 110 countries in all!
Most visitors came from The United States. Greece & United Kingdom were not far behind.

Who were they?

The most commented on post in 2015 was A Mycenaean “Matter of Fact”: Part II, Joe Alsop’s Greek Bronze Age Archive at the University of Cincinnati

These were the 5 most active commenters on this blog:

1 Glenn R. Bugh 9 comments
2 Hélène Antigone Andromeda 3 comments
3 Maria Liston 3 comments
4 polyxena2 2 comments
5 John Fischer 2 comments

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