{"id":59590,"date":"2012-07-25T11:53:28","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T15:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=59590"},"modified":"2012-07-25T12:47:33","modified_gmt":"2012-07-25T16:47:33","slug":"this-is-our-6000th-blog-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/this-is-our-6000th-blog-post\/","title":{"rendered":"This is our 6,000th blog post"},"content":{"rendered":"

Planet Waves switched to a blog format in July 2008, just as the presidential election was warming up. It took a lot to get me here, and we experimented with several different platforms before choosing the one we currently have — Word Press. This post is our 6,000th on this blog. That means that for the past four years we’ve averaged 4.1 posts per day.<\/p>\n

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Original cover of Planet Waves as it appeared starting in late 1998. This particular version is from mid-2000. Note the Aquarius glyph built into the logo for the website. The text along the bottom is elvish for “A star shines on the hour of our meeting,” spoken by Frodo Baggins to the elves who helped him and his fellow hobbits out as they were being stalked by the black riders the first night they were on the road to Rivendell. PW logo (always in my handwriting) and elvish script were rendered by Via Keller, and the supernova is some clip art that I modified in Photoshop.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When we started the Planet Waves blog in 2008, my vision was for a group project, featuring a diversity of writers and subjects, moving quickly and providing mostly original content. I also envisioned an active audio channel, with both talk and music programming, in the form of Planet Waves FM. This, we have been able to create without taking a single advertisement<\/strong>, incurring no debt to investors and retaining full ownership of the company. <\/p>\n

We are sponsored by our subscribers and customers, and some people who have written checks just because they wanted to — thank you for doing your metaphysical and personal healing ‘shopping’ here. <\/p>\n

If you like this blog you will love our products, and you’ll be supporting the holistic enterprise known as Planet Waves. Publishing this feature is a collaboration of many writers, an editor who puts half her hours into this one feature (that would be Amanda), graphic support from Sarah and tech support from Anatoly. What most websites do to cover those costs is weigh their page down with ads. As I’ve said many times, that’s not the purpose of Planet Waves. We’re here for you, because of you and we thrive on your participation and contribution to what we’re doing.<\/p>\n

A few other stats: the first year we were averaging about 60,000 visits per month; we’ve doubled that over four years. We are rapidly approaching four million visits to this blog. As of today there have been 37,498 comments. And so far I nave not seen spam appear in a comment, even once.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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