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| By Andy Tarnoff Publisher E-mail author | Author bio More articles by Andy Tarnoff |
| Published Sept. 14, 2009 at 4:46 p.m. |
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If you've worked at the same job for a number of years, you've probably had the same reaction as I did last week while posting the OnMilwaukee.com Weekend Preview.
As I Photoshopped some random heads on a background, I asked myself just how many times I've done this over the 11 years since I launched the company from my dining room table (probably not wearing pants at the time, but I can't be sure).
I knew the answer was "a lot," but I wanted to know an exact number. Fortunately, we have an archive of such things, and it turned out to be 465 times. Granted, there have been a few weeks here and there when someone else hit "save and review," but for the most part, that was me uploading it (writing the "WP," however, is a team effort). Playing "posting monkey" is not the most glamorous aspect of my job, but it's certainly among the most repetitive.
I took a few minutes to count up other things I've done over and over and over again, as well as a few other amazing and less amazing figures. With a little help from Quickbooks, our content management system and my own fading memory, it wasn't really that hard.
Take every statistic with a grain of salt, though, considering that for every repetitive task, someone else has filled in once in a while, and that some of these metrics aren't perfect, either.
I'm sure you, too, have similar stats to share. I'd love to hear them through our Talkbacks below.
4,591: Checks I've signed since 2000.
$.03: The smallest check we ever received, from an affiliate program that we promptly canceled (no, we didn't cash it).
$21,495.25: Largest individual check we ever received from a client.
$20,539.83: Total amount spent on buying weather data from AccuWeather (since 2000).
36: Number of salaried employees in history of OnMilwaukee.com, LLC.
5: Number of people we've fired.
2: Employees who married each other.
8: Number of children born to current employees since they started here.
730: Active and expired articles, blogs and briefs I've written with my byline.
Unknown: Briefs I've written with "OnMilwaukee Staff Writer" byline.
3: Number of original Violent Femmes I have interviewed.
745: Readers polls I've posted on OnMilwaukee.com.
107: Total number of freelancers we've used.
28: Bobblehead dolls that have found their way into my office.
1: Desktop computers I've owned since summer of 2004.
3,701: E-mails I've sent since my mail program crashed on Jan. 15, 2007.
1: Number of sitting presidents who have been in my office.
1: Number of "American Idol" winners who have been in my office.
1: Number of Hall of Fame baseball players who have been in my office.
1: Number of Milwaukee mayors who have been in my office.
1: Number of known pimps who have been to the office.
2: Number of medical procedures I have traded for advertising.
68,809: Talkbacks that our staff has read and approved since we implemented our current system on May 30, 2005.
1,289: Talkbacks that we've declined during that time.
64: User bans we've implemented for spamming or otherwise offensive reasons.
77: Talkbacks to my blog, "I hate Cubs fans."
88: Talkbacks to my blog, "McCain throws in the towel with vexing veep pick."
1: Talkback to my 2004 interview with Mayor Tom Barrett.
167: Number of active URLs that OnMilwaukee.com owns.
5,309,524: Unique visitors to OnMilwaukee.com over the last 36 months (according to Google Analytics).
5,627,967: Population of the Wisconsin in July, 2008 (according to the U.S. Census Bureau, Population Division).
125: Number of "tweets" since I gave up my objection to Twitter on July 25, 2009.
141: Following my Twitter feed, reading insightful comments like "Running while pushing a baby is waaaaay harder. Unless you're a baby, then it's probably waaaaay easier."
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Posted by LonLon on Sept. 24, 2009 at 7:49 a.m. (report)
I was there the first time you Photoshopped some heads on a background. We *were* wearing pants.
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Posted by devidia on Sept. 15, 2009 at 1:05 p.m. (report)
I never wear pants. Anywhere.
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Posted by alba on Sept. 15, 2009 at 9:12 a.m. (report)
Holy cow, $20,539.83 for weather info? Drop it completely and keep your cash and I promise to keep visiting your weatherless site.
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