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Thursday, June 12, 2008
10,000 reasons to say thank you
I’m traveling the rest of this week in Canada while still keeping an eye on the blog and education news. But the break from work gave me the chance to notice that last month this blog saw its 11,000th comment. That’s on about 1,150 blog posts since Get on the Bus launched on Aug. 8, 2005.
That’s an astounding 9.5 or so comments for posts. Or at least it’s astounding to me.
I’ve gotten some nice praise for Get on the Bus over that time, and nearly every good word includes a compliment about the vibrancy of the reader comments and the general politeness of the exchange of ideas here. Sometimes I am actually pressed by those starting their own blogs to explain my “magic” formula for keeping the conversation here civil, as if I have some sort of secret ingredient.
When I tell people that I think I’m just lucky that people in Dayton who read GOTB generally are passionate but polite, they think I’m being coy.
So from time to time I like to say thanks to all of you for reading and helping to create an active and cordial discussion here.
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