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November Archived
1 December 2014
The harvest is in, as we put it a year ago. Volume 3 Number 11 of Photo Corners has been archived. And once again we published over 60 stories, including links to another 64 items on other sites worth reading in November.
THE EDITORIAL BREAKDOWN for the month was 15 feature stories, 21 commented news items, 20 Editor's Notes (which included the 64 items, not counting our Black Friday links), three reviews (one of which is a two-parter with one more part to go) and three site notes (including a discussion of our new site navigation design that was apparently popular on Twitter).
Long ago we learned to appreciate the value of a simple letter to the editor and the Feedback button at the bottom of every story we publish reflects that.
Our top stories are getting almost three times the readership of a year ago when we celebrated our first anniversary.
Our comparison of Piccure+ with DxO OpticsPro was our most-read story by a few lengths over our Graham Nash matinee, which was our most popular show ever. Surprisingly, the Charles Wong matinee would have set that mark if not for Nash. Two very different careers, both of interest.
Our DNS DS40 printer review snuck in between the two top matinees. And our post processing checklist followed directly behind them.
But we're also happy to see our exhibition work score very highly, too. That includes Editor's Notes like Veterans Day but primarily our Friday Slide Shows. You have to walk the talk.
SPEAKING OF TALK, we note with some sympathy the erosion of story comments on some prominent sites. David Hobby gave them up a while ago on The Strobist but Re/code just recently dropped them. And they aren't alone.
We have always welcomed your feedback here but not as unmoderated anonymous public postings. Long ago we learned to appreciate the value of a simple letter to the editor and the Feedback button at the bottom of every story we publish reflects that. It starts an email from you to us.
We know who you are and can reply directly to you. And you are writing to us, presumably about the topic in the story. If what you say is of general interest (in our opinion), we publish it with the story. If not (or if you ask us not to publish it), it remains private. Most communications remain private, in fact.
But we did publish more feedback this month than usual. We think that profits everyone.
READERSHIP hit an all-time high in the post-Russian-robot era. We welcomed the most visitors we've had all year with a 124 percent increase over October. A couple of reasons for the increase may be that we started using a general hashtag with our Twitter feed and we're one of the more frequently updated sites in our category on Alltop.
The word is getting out. Which, after all, is the name of the game.