{"id":2077,"date":"2010-01-03T16:12:33","date_gmt":"2010-01-03T16:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/?p=2077"},"modified":"2010-01-03T16:12:33","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T16:12:33","slug":"2009-at-flash-of-steel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/03\/2009-at-flash-of-steel\/","title":{"rendered":"2009 At Flash of Steel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year was a big one for the blog. Buttressed by the Three Moves Ahead podcast, traffic almost tripled.<\/p>\n

This is good, but I also blogged less. With less reviewing going on, I had less time to devote to games that I would not have otherwise played, meaning there were a lot more “look at this link” posts than I usually like to have. One of the strengths of this blog, I think, is that there is more content than there is simply pointing to something neat I saw somewhere else.<\/p>\n

The most popular original content post – both in terms of comments and views – was my post about The Sims and religion<\/a>, an issue that the podcast team revisited late in the year. The map series was also very popular, but some posts there more than others. I regret that the series took forever to finish, but then I look at my slow moving decade series…. This is part of the problem with working with a team, but I’m not changing. Rob Zacny and Bruce Geryk have done great work, and I want to be a platform for the rest of their pieces even if this takes us to June.<\/p>\n

As a community, FoS continues to exceed my expectations. Comments are civil, questions are good, and I read them all even if I don’t comment myself. I don’t answer every question, of course, though I probably should. On Quarter To Three, one listener commented that he suspected we’d still record TMA even if we only had 25 listeners. I feel the same way about FoS – I started this blog back on Blogspot and was thrilled when I got over 50 readers a day. For much of the fall I averaged 700. This is still small beans in the blog world, but I don’t promote this place the way I should. I also deal with a niche topic in a fading genre that aims at men my age who have better things to do. That I have found a like-minded audience is a daily thrill and I thank you all for lifting the site as far as it has gone.<\/p>\n

As for the podcast, it also has exceeded my expectations, though most of the credit for that goes to my dear friends on the show. Julian was there with invaluable advice on day one, without which I never would have moved forward. Bruce Geryk has always been one of my favorite writers, and eagerly volunteered to be on the show before he realized the havoc his life would play with regular planning. And Tom Chick, the “name” on the show, came through for me almost every week as he always has in my career. The increasing difficulties in scheduling all of us could mean some subtle changes to the show as we move along, but the show has been my personal highlight of 2009. We’ll have a proper one year anniversary show in late February, and more on that later.<\/p>\n

On to 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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