Just to have mentioned it: This morning around 11 a.m. Grits hit the 3 million visitor mark (with around 4.9 million page views). I don't know whether that's a lot or a little compared to others, but it took six and a half years to get there. This is the 5,874th post since Grits launched in October 2004, and lately the blog has been averaging 15-16,000 visitors per week. Let's take the opportunity to perform a little housekeeping:
It's been awhile since I've promoted Grits' email subscription option, but as of today, 1,017 readers get Grits posts via daily email subscription. If you'd like to join them:
You'll need to respond to an email that shows up in your box to activate the subscription. Or, if you use a Google or Yahoo reader or other RSS feed aggregator, here is the link to Grits' site feed. No Grits app yet for your I-Phone, sorry. ;)
Thanks for reading, folks!
Thanks for your good works!
ReplyDeleteThank you for all your efforts, and the opportunity to express our thoughts and feeling regarding the injustices within Texas.
ReplyDeletePlease continue your mission.
Nipper
Thanks for your good work, Scott.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your work, always one of the first sites I check daily...I encourage everyone to become a paid subscriber via PayPal.
ReplyDeleteOutstanding! Thanks you Scott for all you do!
ReplyDeleteThanks for all you do. I mail it once a week to my son who is incarcerated. If I am late he is on the phone and everyone wants to know when I am mailing the next Grits for Breakfast? You are so very informative and I appreciate all that you do.Cathy
ReplyDeletecongrats grits! outstanding work.
ReplyDeleteEven if we don't agree all the time! LOL
Scott,
ReplyDeleteYour blog offers consistent, informative, and often insightful commentary on government factoids that can range from curious or bewildering to pertinent and definitively impactive on Texans' future. I applaud your commitment to this endeavor. Additionally, I must say that the comments sometimes leave me grinning or even outright laughing. Consider that to be the ultimate form of literary sustenance --- the undeniable and burning need for so many to say so much. Please, continue to keep me informed.
Good work, man. Keep it up.
ReplyDeleteScott...you have done a great job. I know that TYC has been a sore spot yet you have worked with both sides of the contraversity, fairly. Thanks for providing a forum for both sides. Best...continue to be the best...
ReplyDeleteThank you for the opportunity to post on a variety of political and non-political topics. It is a great forum for discussion.
ReplyDeleteYour blog is excellant...one of my favorite places. Several of my friends have started visiting...you've made them a believer, affirming what I have told them about our justice system. To the next Bob Woodward...CONGRATS!
ReplyDeleteThanks everybody, for the good wishes and kind words!
ReplyDeleteBut Audrey, I'm pretty much the anti-Bob Woodward! Like Sy Hersh, he's a consummate insider who gets all the bigwigs to open up to him. I'm the guy nobody wants to talk to who digs up all my stuff following paper trails, public sources, and paying close attention to the process. FWIW, my own journalistic model is more based on Izzy Stone, for reasons discussed here soon after I launched this blog.
Thanks again, everybody, for your kind affirmations.
I first found out about this blog via Facebook a few weeks ago, and I have been hooked ever since. THANK YOU for shining a light on matters that the mainstream press seem to so often ignore unless something bad (such as the Stiles escape) pops up, and for providing a voice of (not so) common sense when it comes to the future of the Texas prison system!
ReplyDeleteThank You Scott for all you do I receive you by email and it is the way I start my day, with a bowl of grits, (I really don't like the real thing) Carry on old son
ReplyDeleteI'll have to check out Izzy Stone (here). The Woodward I had in mind was the man of the 70's with Watergate...don't know he was an insider then...at least Richard Nixon, Gordon Liddy, John Ehrlichman, Bob Haldeman and John Mitchell wouldn't look at him that way. I agree Woodward may have sold out...I tried to involve him in some political issues of my own case, involving Bush, Alberto Gonzalez and David McCall but to no avail. A very old friend of mine who was part of the original core group of the Washington Post ("E-Streeters") said likely Woodward never even saw it....or didn't want to touch it....
ReplyDeleteAudrey, If you've never heard of I.F. Stone, you're in for a treat. I think the books compiling his writing from I.F. Stone's Weekly are out of print, but often available online used. Brilliant primary source reporting out of Washington at the height of the Cold War, Korean War, and the early days of Vietnam. He's the undisputed, if regrettably unheralded, father of modern investigative journalism - like Lincoln Steffens on steroids. :)
ReplyDeleteI will find it...I am very interested. A friend of my husband's has a book store on the historic square downtown McKinney "The Book Gallery -Unique and Antique books"...he'll either have it or know where I can get it. You are wealth of information.
ReplyDeleteThe very best place to get Texas CJ news and commentary. It's a habit-forming activity. Good.
ReplyDeleteGood Grief!! You'll be a corporation soon.
ReplyDelete"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both." Louis Brandeis
Congratulations! Carry On! ~jcovici
Yes, THANKS FOR YOUR EXCELLENCE AND THE GRITTY GUTS TO SPEAK UP.
ReplyDeleteWhat are the stats on how many prisoners read it, versus how many judges read it?
And can we have them swap places? (I mean, just for comparison. Then judges could use cell phones to break out, instead of burying fellow citizens.)
congrats!
ReplyDelete