Making Our First Million

by T Kyle King on Jun 30, 2008 9:23 PM EDT in Events

Shortly before 10:03 a.m. on Monday, June 30, 2008, someone at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in Alexandria, Virginia, performed a Google News search for "Knowshon Moreno" and clicked through to my lame attempt at comedy following MaconDawg’s revelation of the Georgia tailback’s disciplinary history.

In so doing, that reader (or, perhaps, that speed reader; Sitemeter says his visit length lasted zero seconds and one page view) became the 1,000,000th visitor to Dawg Sports.

One million visitors!

MaconDawg and I hit the million-visitor mark on the final day of the first month since January 2008 in which we went over 50,000 visits and 75,000 page views in a calendar month. Accordingly, although it has been a rough week for Bulldog Nation as a whole, we at least had a little good news here at your friendly neighborhood weblog.

We thank you, one and all, for your readership and participation. For my part, I’m going to try to enjoy the moment while hoping that employees of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in Alexandria, Virginia, merely find their jobs boring and surf the internet during business hours, because I have to admit . . . my inner conspiracy theorist can’t help humming the chorus of "Pancho and Lefty" into my subconscious: "All the federales say they could have had him any day. They only let him go so long out of kindness, I suppose."

Go ‘Dawgs!

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Is it...

1,000,000 visitors or 1,000,000 visits?

Just curious…

I know how you are a stickler for accuracy of language and a little on the detail oriented side… In one sentence you mention “visitor(s)”, and the next you mention “visits”, and there is a difference methinks…

Not trying to rain on the parade…

and by the way, Congratulations!!

-Reali
aka Stat Boy
aka Stat Face

cookin and smilin

by cookin and smilin on Jul 1, 2008 7:25 AM EDT reply actions

It's visits . . .

. . . and you’re right, that doesn’t mean 1,000,000 distinct visitors--in fact, it distinctly does not mean 1,000,000 distinct visitors—although “1,000,000 visitors” is accurate in the same sense as the “X billion served” sign outside of McDonald’s, which counts me on multiple occasions.

Well, dang, now I don’t feel like it’s that big a deal anymore. Carry on, and nevermind.

Shucks.

Go 'Dawgs!

by T Kyle King on Jul 1, 2008 8:36 AM EDT up reply actions

McDonald's

“To serve”—on the McDonald’s sign, it’s a transitive verb, but its meaning is vague. One can serve customers, or one can serve hamburgers. Has McDonald’s served billions of customers or billions of hamburgers? If it’s the former, they’re certainly not counting distinct persons. If it’s the latter, they almost certainly are counting distinct – er – food units.

Congratulations on the number of visits. I check in multiple times per day (on average), so I may be inflating your numbers, but there it is.

And thank you for serving us useful information. Serving to us useful information? Serving us with useful information? Which is the object and which has an elliptical preposition? Either?

Be careful whom you advise to “carry on”. I’m ~~good~~ adept at it.

by NCT on Jul 1, 2008 6:27 PM EDT up reply actions

It is a great accomplishment...

We here so many HUGE numbers thrown around about the population of China, or the GNP of Ireland, or the theoretical number of illegal immigrants in New Hampshire that we can lose our perspective on just how big 1,000,000 really is…

To put everything back in perspective, look at pi carried out to 1,000,000 decimal places…

try this:

http://www.exploratorium.edu/pi/Pi10-6.html

or google pi to one million decimal places… It will make you feel small…

(btw, I need a tutorial on the link feature… it seems simple enough, but…)

That is something to be proud of… (even if I, personally hit this site 15 times in the last 30 days…)

cookin and smilin

by cookin and smilin on Jul 1, 2008 9:51 AM EDT reply actions