It has been a pleasure to serve you
By Will Collette
No matter how the numbers turn out tonight, I just want to
say that it has been an honor and a pleasure to be part of presenting
Progressive Charlestown to our ever-growing base. Since February 2011 when we
started Progressive Charlestown as a small project that would give us a place
to vent our thoughts, it has grown into a much bigger thing with a life of its
own.
While we were in the middle of dealing with Sandy, the
page-view odometer rolled over another milestone when we hit and passed the
400,000 page-view mark. A page view is each occasion when a reader clicks on an
article to read it, not just a “hit” where we get a random visitor.
Since we became the major campaign issue for the otherwise
intellectually bankrupt Charlestown Citizens Alliance, our numbers have
rocketed. Here’s how much: in August, we had 26,864 total page views, an
average of just under 900 a day.
In September, the daily average rose to 1,068 and at the end
of October, it climbed to 1,315.
Right now, our rolling average is over 1,440. That’s 545 more readers per day – an increase of 61% since the first of August. Thank you,
CCA, for all those attack letters in the Westerly Sun, in your e-mails and on
your blog. Makes me wish Tom and I were doing Progressive Charlestown for
money.
Maybe later. For now, we know we’ve done our best to give
you thorough coverage of Charlestown politics, our views and analysis, our
snarky humor but most important of all, the proof you can read for yourselves
by following the links.
What happens next with Progressive Charlestown depends a lot
on you and what you decide today, as well as whether you continue reading
Progressive Charlestown after all the dust settles. It also depends on us and
how we each see our futures after tomorrow.
But no matter what, it’s been a great adventure and a lot of
fun, even getting stalked in supermarkets, having people get up in my face and
spraining my fingers hitting the spam key to send anonymous CCA trollers to the
spam can.
So thank you all for doing your part to make Charlestown a
better place.