One Year of Flour Power
That's right! This little corner of the web is already one year old. And so I feel obliged to do some kind of summary.
It's was on the 17th of January 2009 that I inaugurated Flour Power. One year later and it's still here, after 239 posts with 292 comments. The site has seen a total of 83,512 unique visitors that produced 105,092 pageviews. Most of them got here from search engines (76.87%), of which Google was the biggest contributor. Geographically speaking, the 4 biggest sources of traffic were the USA, the UK, Canada and Ireland. But there was also 1 person from Rwanda that considered the blog interesting enough to spend more than 5 minutes here.
And what made all those people come here? The 10 most popular posts of 2009 (excluding the Facebook "incident", which alone caused about 50% of the total traffic) were:
- Barney Stinson’s “Get Psyched” Mixes (3,969)
- Katy Perry Totally Looks Like Zooey Deschanel (2,454)
- Fixing Windows Live Messenger 8100030F Error (2,343)
- Make Your Own Pop Art With Warholizer (1,851)
- Ryanair Flight Attendant Edita Schindlerova is Pornstar Edita Bente (1,708)
- Turn Your Picture Into a “Obama Hope Poster” (1,490)
- Listen to Dave Matthews Band New Album For Free (1,475)
- Google Chrome is The Safest Browser Around (1,302)
- Test Your Movie Skills With Empire magazine’s The Cryptic Canvas – 50 Movies Hidden in a Painting (1,300)
- The Cryptic Canvas Answers (1,011)
As far as content is concerned, Flour Power started off as a daily frequently updated diary of my "adventure" of leaving my home country for 6 months to live in Galway, Ireland. As those 6 monhts turned into a year (and now probably two), the frequency of said reports was reduced, and the type of posts changed with it. This is now a place where I post the most fun/interesting/useful stuff I find around the web, along with the occasional rant about whatever is bothering me at the moment. And that's how I plan to keep it going forward.
So if you enjoyed it so far, stick around for a while longer. I'll try not to disappoint 
