Brothers-Brick.com is two years old today! [Editorial]
The Brothers Brick turned three a few months ago, but today is our second anniversary on Brothers-Brick.com.
And what a difference a second year on our own domain has made!
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There are Brothers-Brick.com readers in 196 countries and regions around the world:
Notable additions since last year include Mongolia and Madagascar. Next year, we’re hoping to find readers in North Korea, Turkmenistan, and central Africa.
Here are a few of my favorite lists, based on statistics from this past year:
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With a couple of exceptions, our most popular posts in the past year have been news items:
- Ed Diment finishes HMS Hood — in 20-foot-long minifig scale!
- Zombie Apocafest 2008: Children, avert your eyes!
- Rocko summons the worm
- LEGO Star Wars 10188 Death Star pics reveal interior and 21+ minifigs
- 10193 Medieval Market Village to be released in 2009
- First pictures of 2009 LEGO sets
- Pixar animator Angus MacLane builds best LEGO Wall-E yet
- First pictures of 2009 LEGO Power Miners sets
- Possible 2009 LEGO sets
- First pictures of 4999 Vestas Windmill set
Most importantly, 2008 has been the year during which you the readers of The Brothers Brick have come together as an online community to nominate your own Ambassadors to The LEGO Group.
Finally, here are some links to historical posts for readers who care:
- Third anniversary post
- Brothers-Brick.com first anniversary post
- Second anniversary post
- First anniversary post
- My original welcome message
Here’s to many more years of creativity and community! We hope you’ll stick with The Brothers Brick for the ride. It’s going to be fun.
December 16th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
Impressive jump in stats from in just one year…
December 16th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
happy BB BB
December 16th, 2008 at 8:35 pm
Whoohoo! Congratulations!
December 16th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
Congratulations!
“Notable additions since last year include…Madagascar.”
Well I’m glad at least one of us was able to get them :( That being said, how is it that spam comments are differentiated from real comments?
December 16th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
^ A WordPress plugin called Akismet.
December 16th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
Happy Brithday BB, or aniversary, whatever you want to call it. Gratz!
December 16th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
Don’t hold your breath waiting for visitors from N. Korea.
December 16th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
Happy B-day and congrats!
December 16th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
Opps I forgot to make a cake. :)
December 16th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
Mmm… Cake…
December 16th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
Happy birthday!
Very interesting stats, I enjoyed reading them.
December 16th, 2008 at 9:45 pm
Congrats and keep it up. Best Lego blog ever!
December 16th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
Not to take away from this accomplishment, but at least 1,000,000,000 of those hits were from me.
December 16th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
Congratulations from THE BRICK TIME.
Her makes a great job.
December 16th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
It seems like mere moments ago when I made the first comment on your Original Welcome Message so many years ago. Congratulations and may success continue to be yours (as granted by the mighty space lizards who are our lords and masters). To those of you out there who can’t appreciate the Brothers Brick accomplishments…string cheese you jerks.
December 17th, 2008 at 12:16 am
Wow…only two years old? With all the readers you have I figured you were on since the days when Al Gore invented the internet. Anyway…congrats to you guys and here’s to many many more years of blogging success.
December 17th, 2008 at 12:39 am
Happy Birthday Brothers! Here’s to many, many more =D
December 17th, 2008 at 1:30 am
That’s a sharp increase in spam there.
December 17th, 2008 at 2:19 am
Congrats Brothers! Nice to see that the real comments grow way faster than the spam.
December 17th, 2008 at 2:47 am
HB Brothers. It’s no wonder you have so many fans with such a great blogg. Keep up the great work.
December 17th, 2008 at 3:29 am
happy birthday brotherbrick.com
hope next year will be make more more difference than this year.
success for you all.
December 17th, 2008 at 3:44 am
Congratulations! Impressive stats indeed!
December 17th, 2008 at 5:10 am
Happy anniversary BB!!! Thanks for so many great links, news items, builders, and event topics…Lookin’ forward seeing what you bring to 2009!
December 17th, 2008 at 5:48 am
Congrats! Way to Go BB!
My own site turns 3 today. We share a birthday!
December 17th, 2008 at 6:00 am
Happy Birthday BB! This site has really come a long way. I always enjoy reviewing the many great MOCs and other blogs re. the Lego community. I visit just about every day. Keep of the great work!
December 17th, 2008 at 6:03 am
Congratulations! :D
I’m curious as to how you take care of the spam comments. Are you able to review them, or are they automatically deleted?
December 17th, 2008 at 6:15 am
I’m proud to be a contributor to those stats:)
Many congratulations, and merry Christmas everyone (and any other holidays)! Go build lots of cool things now!
December 17th, 2008 at 6:56 am
Congrats! TBB is an ESSENTIAL Lego resource!
December 17th, 2008 at 8:05 am
Good job on making such a great blog. Congrats
December 17th, 2008 at 8:22 am
Hey guys,
Congratulations on continuing the great work. Here’s to another year of LEGO blogging.
One thing that would be interesting to do, btw, would be to take your pageview stats and divide by the country (or state) population, to see the relative density of AFOLs viewing BB. If you had to do this by hand, you could just take the top ten nations, which would still be an interesting statistic.
Bruce
December 17th, 2008 at 9:59 am
I add my congradulations to the list and thank you for keeping it new and interesting. Keep up the great work.
December 17th, 2008 at 10:06 am
Happy Birthday! I love this site.
December 17th, 2008 at 10:18 am
ONE MORE YEAR, ONE MORE YEAR, ONE MORE SUPER-FANTABULAR, EXTRA FANTASTICAL YEAR!!!!
December 17th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
…and it only gets better!
December 17th, 2008 at 7:33 pm
I agree with Bruce;
But, I’d like to see more of an AFOL/sq mile (or km) rating more. ‘twould be interesting to see how many AFOLs there are per square mile (or rather, miles between AFOLs, as it may be).
But, laziness is a completely valid reason not to tabulate such data.
Anyways, congrats. I know that I’ll keep reading as long as you keep posting. You’re the reason I’m back into LEGO, and that’s worth something to me.
December 17th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
We should be thanking all the people that provide models for us to blog. It would be a very boring site without cool stuff.
Tim
December 17th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
Happy birthday TBB!!! I hope you have many more!
December 17th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
@Gambort: Yes indeed. A huge thanks to everybody out there who builds the inspiring things we get to blog. :)
December 18th, 2008 at 7:38 am
Happy Birthday! Long Live Brothers-Brick, blog of all things LEGO.
December 18th, 2008 at 8:27 am
Congratulations guys — you take the hard work out of finding the wheat among all the chaff out there and I wish you every success for the future!
I’ll have to take a look at my stats and post something like this for Brickset.
Huw
webmaster brickset.com.
December 19th, 2008 at 9:07 am
Congratulations! I really enjoy reading this Blog.
I didn’t think there would be that many spam comments, i’ve never seen one.
Daniel
December 19th, 2008 at 11:38 am
@DNL – Akismet is really good. It catches the vast majority of spam comments. It tends to err on the side of caution. There are often a number of comments that it saves for moderation, just in case they are spam. I’ve been really impressed with it.
December 23rd, 2008 at 10:17 am
I’m a bit late but happy birthday to this site. I have it on my RSS reader and love checking out the awesome mecha designs and Star Wars related models. Keep updating guys, it’s great skimming through the photos.
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