Early Retirement Extreme

— a combination of simple living, anticonsumerism, DIY ethics, self-reliance, resilience, and applied capitalism

Reader longevity – time to come out of the woodworks?

Published in December 1st, 2011
Posted by in Blogging, Timely
72 Comments

Based on the comments, I know some of you have been reading along for years, since the beginning. I love comments. Feedback is the reason I blog. If I was blogging in a vacuum, I would stop right now. Writing without being read makes little sense to me. That’s just a personality thing, really, nothing […]

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A new metric for blog rankings

Published in October 4th, 2011
Posted by in Blogging, Timely
17 Comments

Note: The numbers below are dated. Late 2011 number have roughly 3000 visitors per day and the same level of engagement. Visitors spend a combined 13000 minutes/day on the blog. I do not find normal blog rankings based on popularity or traffic like Wise Bread’s list very useful. Ranking by popularity or traffic is like […]

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Survey: Which content is most important to you?

Published in September 9th, 2011
Posted by in Blogging, Timely
75 Comments

Please rank accordingly, like, type 5,6,2,3,4,1 in the comments or something like that. That way I can run some statistics. Specific how to – articles, like fixing my bicycle, recipes, etc. General how to – articles that specifies different ways of doing things like owning less stuff. Motivational rants, e.g. “This is how great your […]

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