To close out 2012, I wanted to share my annual rundown of Gnome Stew’s site statistics and our milestones from the year. Let’s start with the numbers, with notes/comparisons to this time last year in parentheses: 158,274 unique visitors (up about 1%) 322,479 visits (up about 3%;...
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Today is Gnome Stew’s fourth birthday — we launched the site on May 12, 2008. (You can see all of our launch day articles here.) Sometimes I think the Stew comes off as a more polished operation than it really is. Not in the sense that we don’t put time and energy into producing...
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Welcome to our final article of 2011, my twice-yearly State of the Stew rundown on our stats, milestones, and so forth for the past year. We do one of these in December and one in May (the site’s birthday), and while they don’t make for scintillating read or appeal to everyone,...
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Hello, DNAphil here.  Normally articles about the direction of Gnome Stew are done by our Gnome In Chief, Martin.  This week starts the big layout crunch for Masks and Martin is sequestered away helping to put the final touches on what we are expecting to be a worthy sequel to Eureka.  So while...
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Today is the Stew’s third anniversary! We launched on May 12, 2008, with almost the same lineup of gnomes but a whooole lot fewer readers, articles, comments, and subscribers. It’s been a fun three years, and we hope you’re having as much fun reading the Stew as we are publishing...
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I write two of these State of the Stew articles each year: one at the end of the calendar year, and one around our anniversary. Those dates are conveniently about six months apart, which is good spacing for a snapshot. (Past State of the Stew articles live here.) Gnome Stew went live on May 12,...
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Today, Gnome Stew celebrates its second birthday! We launched the site on May 12, 2008, exactly two years ago. It’s been a great two years — more awesome than I could ever have expected in every way. And it feels totally different than working on a solo blog: There’s just no...
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This is the end of Gnome Stew’s second calendar year (we launched on May 12, 2008), so it’s time for another State of the Stew! (Past State of the Stew articles live here.) In 2008, we surpassed all of the milestones I thought we might approach, and I wasn’t sure what things...
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Today, Gnome Stew turns one year old — we launched on May 12, 2008. We’re rocking our anniversary with a contest, which has its own article. Check it out and enter for a chance to win a set of Battlegraph combat tiles. At the close of 2008, when I did the last State of the Stew, we...
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When Gnome Stew launched on May 12th, 2008, we had a bit more than 60 registered members and 250 RSS and email subscribers (thanks to some pre-launch buzz). In the 7.5 months since then, we’ve reached a level of readership that far exceeds anything I had expected. To put these numbers in...
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