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Latest Posting Date From BRM Blog Roll

Google notified me that my Google Drive is getting full - over 75%. Naturally, they want to sell me more storage space. What have I got in there that's taking all that space? About a zillion files, that's what. I know there are some in there that I want to keep, but I took a look and there is a whole lot of garbage, so I set about cleaning house. 

Then I came across a blogroll I copied from Bayou Renaissance Man back in 2017. I had started checking if they were active, but I hadn't finished, so I spent a couple of hours checking the rest of them. Out of 252 entries in the list, 178 still exist. The rest have gone away. Only 16 have posted in the last week, and 23 have posted this year. I stored all this in a spreadsheet and then asked Google to graph it, and that's what you see at the top. That flat line in the center is from the 35 blogs that stopped posting in 2017.

Since we're doing graphs, here's a graph of this blog:

Pergelator Stats for All Time

There's something wrong with Blogger's numbers. Look at the most recent month and the biggest number is something like 20K on May 27th, not 150K. 500 a day seems more typical. I also have no idea what causes my numbers to spike like that. I check my stats occasionally, and there are always spikes in the number of views, but when I look back to see what I posted on that day, it seems to be the most mundane kinds of posts. It's so weird that I attribute the whole thing social media whiplash, and of no real importance.

Title inspired by Old Town Road

P. S. I realized after I posted this that all the blogs that 'died' in 2017 might be because I checked them back when I first started on this, back in 2017. They might all still be going.