We’ve had a real growth spurt here at SHS. In the last month. We have gone from about 30,000 visits and 25,000 discreet visitors every thirty days to nearly 40,000 visits from about 31,000 visitors. And the last few days have had about 2000 visitors a day. We’re not the Daily Kos or Little Green Footballs, but we’re not chopped liver either, as the old saying goes. Add in the other blogs reporting on what we do here and some direct media use of my commentary, and the SHS project can only be called a success.
I think we should attribute much of the recent growth to the news:The Final Exit Network suicide arrests, the Obama embryonic stem cell funding change, futile care rearing its ugly head in Idaho, etc. But it could also indicate a more general interest in all things bioethical. I hope so, because the matters with which we grapple here are among the most important facing our society and the world.
Whatever the cause, I am gratified. There may also be a change in the works, that if it pans out, could increase traffic dramatically. More if and as that potential develops.
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