2012 in review

January 1, 2013 by umashankar 47 Comments

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 34,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 8 Film Festivals!

Truth Alone Triumphs was the most popular post with 118 comments. On its busiest day, the peak traffic achieved, excluding spam, was 845 views.

Thank you, WordPress! All I want to add is a quote by Ernest Hemingway, “For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write  better than I can.”

And thank you, dear readers, from the bottom of my heart. Wishing a Happy, Serene and Pristine year Two Thousand and Thirteen to all my friends out there!

Such is Life

About umashankar

The question then is, am I a writer? It is true I wriggle a pen to colour my notepad, or tap at a keyboard to darken the pixels of my desktop screen. If the strings I weave paint a canvas to my readers, borrowing the hues of their own vision, maybe I am.
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47 Responses to “2012 in review”

  1. debajyoti Reply January 1, 2013 at 11:59 pm

    wishing you a fabulous new year!!

  2. meenakshi Reply January 2, 2013 at 9:55 am

    May you attain even better heights in 2013! Wishing you a very happy new year!

  3. Amit Reply January 2, 2013 at 10:14 am

    Wishing you a very happy new year Uma!

  4. Corinne Rodrigues Reply January 2, 2013 at 12:41 pm

    Happy New Year and here’s to more writing by you and page views aplenty! :)

  5. Akshay Kumar G Reply January 2, 2013 at 3:35 pm

    Some neat stats there, I wish your blog powers at least 20 Film Festivals this year. ;)

    Wishing you and your family a very Happy New Year. :)

    • umashankar Reply January 2, 2013 at 8:24 pm

      Thank you, Akshay. Actually, I have slipped! Yet, I do look forward to your good wishes materializing into 20 Film Festivals this year. :D Wish the same to you too!

  6. Nomad Reply January 2, 2013 at 9:03 pm

    A very Happy New Year to you and your family! May the new year bring more wonderful writings and readers to this blog! :)

  7. Saru (@SaruSinghal) Reply January 3, 2013 at 3:48 am

    I think, as a reader that most of the times what you write brings various emotions to the reader, be it a twist in the story or your rich vocabulary, everything is too good. It’s always a delight to read your blogs. If you ask me, I would say the story with Nina, which started with you admiring a painting in the living room and ending on the blast was the best. Sorry, I can’t recall the name. :(

    Happy New Year to you and your lovely family :)

    • umashankar Reply January 3, 2013 at 7:52 am

      Thank you for those kind words, Saru! I am thrilled to learn you liked The Evening that Killed. Different folks have appreciated different stories. As for me, they all come from my heart! :D

      Wish a Very Happy New Year to you and your loved ones!

  8. Jennwith2ns Reply January 3, 2013 at 7:44 am

    Wow! Nice job, sir! Think you can get some of your readers to visit/comment on my blog once in a while? :-)

    • umashankar Reply January 3, 2013 at 7:56 am

      Thank you, madam! The traffic is yet not what it could have been. Wish the best to you! :)

      • Jennwith2ns Reply January 3, 2013 at 8:01 am

        Well, it’s about 3 and a half times more than mine! And some of my top commenters don’t even blog (or read blogs) anymore.

        The best to you, too.

        • umashankar January 3, 2013 at 8:23 am

          Jenn, out here in India, many of my readers, especially the older folks, consider it a chore to switch on the computer. There are people who tell me they can’t read my posts because the young ones are not around to start the browser! We do get new visitors all the times but how many of them are good readers too? The trick is to keep their interests fired up. And therein lies the devil. Often they may have conflicting tastes, reducing the writer to the fate of the man who married one of his daughters to a gardener and the other one to a potter. When the gardener hankered for the rains the potter prayed for sunshine!

        • Jennwith2ns January 3, 2013 at 8:50 am

          Haha! Nice analogy. And yes, I feel your pain . . .

  9. Jay (@jksingh99) Reply January 3, 2013 at 10:20 am

    Hi USP,

    Cool, that’s some stats I must say. I hope it carries forward into the New Year as well. :)
    Happy New Year to you.

    Regards,

    Jay

  10. Jas Reply January 3, 2013 at 10:55 am

    Wish you a very happy and wonderful New Year :)

  11. Jas Reply January 3, 2013 at 10:56 am

    And btw I am impressed by the figures :)

  12. rajnisinha Reply January 3, 2013 at 11:57 am

    happy New Year Umashankar ji

  13. Ghazala Hossain Reply January 3, 2013 at 12:34 pm

    Happy new year to you too :D

  14. Fredy Davis Reply January 3, 2013 at 2:02 pm

    happy New Year Dear !!!!!!!!!! :)

  15. Arnab Maity Reply January 3, 2013 at 8:07 pm

    Loved the interpretation of the stats in your own style! Wish you another year of awesomeness!

  16. Panchali Reply January 3, 2013 at 11:40 pm

    Great scores you have there. Umashankar !! Wish you many more wonderful years of blogging…
    A very happy and a prosperous 2013!

  17. dnambiar11 Reply January 4, 2013 at 6:18 am

    Here’s wishing you many more ‘film festivals.’ I hope at the end of 2013, we’ll be talking of ‘copies sold’ ;) All the best USP. Have a fruitful year. Happy 2013!

  18. C. Suresh Reply January 4, 2013 at 11:56 am

    A very Happy New year to you Uma! Those stats are indeed great going by my experience (Hvnt hit 845 views in any day including spam and even if I were tracking my own page views :) ) but, yes, your writing deserves a lot more than that! Here is to hoping that 2013 gets you pageviews closer to what you deserve and a successful published author’s mantle to your shoulders as well!

    • umashankar Reply January 4, 2013 at 8:54 pm

      May God bless you for showering those blessings on me, Suresh! It means a world coming from an accomplished blogger like you. Wish a glorious New Year to you too!

  19. Giribala Reply January 4, 2013 at 8:09 pm

    Best wishes for the coming year!

  20. Personal Concerns Reply January 4, 2013 at 10:13 pm

    wishing u a wonderful 2013 and i really hope that the shower of your lovely words, ideas and stories grows in girth and force!!

  21. The Fool Reply January 5, 2013 at 7:14 pm

    Nice stats. These stats and the number of votes on your HC entry are indeed a testimonial of the love you have earned on the blog-o-sphere. Congrats and wish you a great year ahead.

    • umashankar Reply January 5, 2013 at 7:36 pm

      Thank you, TF. Folks have loved me by metric tons even though there have been concerted efforts to bring me down. My detractors have used every trick in the book -I have been attacked directly and by proxy and through moronic stooges; I have been maligned in forums public and private; I have been the bogeyman of wicked chain emails; But I not only keep existing; I am holding my own, One Grain Amongst the Storm!

  22. JayadevM Reply January 5, 2013 at 8:29 pm

    Hi Umashankar

    Fabulous stats … but that isn’t what your blog is about. Its about the amazing tales you spin and weave.

    845 views in a day … Wow! May 2013 take you to the 4-figure mark. You deserve so much more.

    I loved the analogy you shared with Jenn about the potter & the gardener. Yes, needs & perspectives of our readers are so diverse. We need to please all of them sometime.

    I looked forward to gripping tales from you in the year ahead … and that book you promised!

    Best wishes.

  23. jkhona Reply January 8, 2013 at 8:14 pm

    sorry Umaji, I have been away from quite sometime. But I would agree with Saru Singhal. That story was amazing. Keep writing and I would try to keep visiting page :) :) :)

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