The first post on this weblog was put up on December 15, 2011. It was short. The post suggested that early pioneers who’d found this George R. Stewart weblog visit Michael Ward’s fine GRS Wikipedia page. Since then, posts have grown in length and complexity, but the emphasis is still on Stewart’s fine work, and the network of people influenced by him, or interested in his life and work – like you, reading this, and all those who’ve read these pages for more than 6 years.
WordPress is a fine way to distribute a weblog. WP lets a post’s administrator review statistics in time periods from one year to all time. The number of viewers from each country is listed, with flags of their nations attached, and all of the countries viewing the site are color-coded on the world map which heads that particular set of stats.
Today, I’ve gone through the weblog’s statistics on WordPress. On this date, February 2, 2018, residents living more than half the nations on planet Earth have viewed the GRS/Earth Abides weblog: Residents of 98 nations, from a total of 195 nations. Nations which include small ones from the contintent of Africa, like Zimbabwe South Africa, and Nigeria; from the continent of Europe, like Russia, Britain, Latvia, Luxembourg, France, Italy, Germany. From Asia, including India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong. In North America, including Canada, Mexico, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and the USA, et al. South American visitors include residents of Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, et al. New Zealand and Australia. Yemen, the United Arab Emirates, Israel, and others. Even tiny Bailiwick of Jersey, the small island dependency of Britain in the English Channel where some inhabitants still speak the ancient Norman language. I heartily welcome all of them, and all of you.
Here’s a portrait of our home, which we all share together
Finally, this is a thank you, to all of you, for visiting, reading, and following this post. It makes the writing seem worthwhile.
There’s more to do. 97 nations are yet to be heard from. Nor has Antarctica visited; nor the International Space Station. And with more and more to share about George R. Stewart, I’ll be writing this for another 6 years, or more.
For those who want to see all the nations who’ve sent representatives to this page, here we go:
United States 11428
United Kingdom 894
Canada 450
Germany 221
Brazil 190
Australia 188
France 108
India 73
Italy 50
South Korea 49
Spain 44
Romania 40
Japan 34
Switzerland 32
Netherlands 32
Indonesia 29
Mexico 28
Sweden 28
New Zealand 27
Denmark 26
Argentina 26
Austria 26
Philippines 26
Croatia 25
Yemen 24
Israel 21
Russia 21
Taiwan 20
Czech Republic 20
Portugal 18
Pakistan 17
Belgium 16
Ireland 14
Thailand 14
Finland 13
Poland 11
Colombia 11
Morocco 9
Ecuador 9
European Union 8
Hong Kong SAR China 8
Turkey 8
Singapore 8
Greece 7
Bangladesh 7
Norway 6
Hungary 6
Slovakia 5
Bulgaria 5
Kenya 5
Sri Lanka 4
Malaysia 4
Cyprus 4
Ukraine 4
Saudi Arabia 4
Uruguay 4
Puerto Rico 4
Iraq 3
Paraguay 3
Egypt 3
Trinidad & Tobago 3
Luxembourg 3
Serbia 3
Venezuela 3
Uzbekistan 3
Costa Rica 3
Slovenia 2
Chile 2
South Africa 2
Guatemala 2
Djibouti 2
Dominican Republic 2
Kazakhstan 2
Georgia 2
Algeria 2
Bosnia & Herzegovina 2
United Arab Emirates 2
Latvia 2
Kyrgyzstan 2
Vietnam 2
Peru 1
Kuwait 1
Macedonia 1
Lithuania 1
Zimbabwe 1
Nigeria 1
Brunei 1
Armenia 1
Bahrain 1
Mozambique 1
Bahamas 1
Bolivia 1
Tunisia 1
Namibia 1
Guernsey 1
Nepal 1
Panama 1
Jersey 1
Total 2-18 14486
the EARTH ABIDES project 