SOME RANDOM DUDE

It was another bitter-sweet month for this blog. March 2008 had the highest total of return visitors ever and RSS subscriptions are continuing to increase at a healthy rate. Still, March had only 22 comments which ended up totaling just $11.00. All $11.00 was donated to Carbonfund.

With this month’s contribution, we offset 5,680 miles driven from a car with the average miles per gallon (25.2 mpg) or roughly 2 tons of C02 according to Carbonfund’s calculator.

I have no doubt that these lack of comments have a lot to do with the fact that the format of posts has had a less open-ended format than usual. Unfortunately, this stems from a lack of time. Still, if you like this program, please let your friends about this feature. Hopefully we will hit something closer to $50 soon.
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January 2008 was a great month for traffic, however the comments are not keeping up. January had 37 comments which ended up totaling $18.50. All $18.50 was donated to Carbonfund.

With this month’s contribution, we offset 9,554 miles driven from a car with the average miles per gallon (25.2 mpg) or 3.36 tons of C02 according to Carbonfund’s calculator. We still are far from the $50 limit, but eliminating close to 10,000 miles of driving is not too shabby.

I am definitely back into the swing of things and will continue to put out 3 posts a week. I am really trying to concentrate on one quality article each week which can be a challenge at times. Luckily, February has the potential to be open for some writing and finalizing of projects. Hopefully that will bring more comments…

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It has been a very long time since I have followed through on the monthly Comment Love feature. I honestly have no idea how much money as been tallied up through comments, although I know my lack of blogging participation has brought about little comment participation… So as a nice little clear-the-board action, I decided to donate $100 to Carbonfund to take care of all the past months.

With this month’s contribution, we offset 51,655 miles driven from a car with the average miles per gallon (25.2 mpg) or 18.18 tons of C02 according to Carbonfund’s calculator. From this point on, I will be blogging more, which (hopefully) means more comments, which means more donations.

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June’s Comment Love came close to the $50 thanks to a couple posts that garnered quite a bit of discussion. There were 94 comments this month which totaled $47.00. All $47.00 was donated to Carbonfund.org this month.

With this month’s contribution, we offset 22,210 miles driven from a car with the average miles per gallon (25.2 mpg) or 8.55 tons of C02 according to Carbonfund.org. We broke $50 last month and were just a sliver away this month - I am very happy about that. I think a lot of the responsibility for keeping these numbers up is on me in order to write articles that drive discourse - I will really be pushing that aspect of this site from this point on.

I also have no forgotten about the Good Magazine give-away feature for this month… I will be posting that later today.

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April was a pretty successful month for Comment Love. There were 86 comments this month which totaled $43.00. All $43.00 was donated to Carbonfund.org this month.

With this month’s contribution, we offset 22,210 miles driven from a car with the average miles per gallon (25.2 mpg) or 7.82 tons of C02 according to Carbonfund.org. I am really happy that we got up to $43 in donations this month considering the low output of articles during the period. We are extremely close to $50, my hope is once I start pulling my weight, we will hit this magic number.

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