This day has been a while coming. We just had our one millionth visitor to Creative Minority Report. Hooray.
The grand total to date is 1,000,000 visitors with a grand total of 1,728,719 pageloads. As near as we can tell our millionth visitor hails from St. Louis MO.
Oh sure, we know that there are other sites out there that have many multiples of that, but this is a big deal for us. We started this little project just over two years ago. For the first year we toiled in well deserved obscurity with just over 100,000 visitors in our first year of operations. This last year things have begun to change. More and more people have stumbled across our little corner of the Internet helping us to reach the 1 million milestone just a year later.
If I may use the occasion of this milestone to offer some thoughts on why we do this. I certainly isn’t for fame or fortune. Two years ago Matthew and I surveyed the landscape of Catholic blogs and thought that there might be a niche that needed filling. If you as a Catholic were interested in deep theological things, there was a place for that. If apologetics floats your boat, there was a place for that. If the liturgy wars are your thing, there are places for that. If you are interested in the vestment options available in the 17th century Sarum rite, there is even a place for that. There was a place for all sorts things directed at really smart and interested Catholics.
But what about those other folks? You know, Catholics who don’t have the time or inclination to read the Summa? What about those Catholics who couldn’t tell you the difference between an encyclical from an apostolic exhortation if there life depended on it? What about those folks? Shouldn’t there be a site for dumb Catholics as well?
Matthew and I looked at each other and said, “Yes!” So we do this every day for you. The dumb Catholics. So today, this milestone is really your milestone. Take comfort in the fact that there are a million Catholic morons out there just like you.
May 4, 2009 at 11:44 pm
Congratulations!!!
May 4, 2009 at 11:55 pm
duh, i donn’t unterstand, butt keep it up. is this supose too bee one of ur funy ones?
signed, a fateful reeder
May 5, 2009 at 12:27 am
Congratulations, and thank goodness we have such great morons for leaders, too! 😉
~Nzie
May 5, 2009 at 12:34 am
It is great to be in such gud kum…copan..cump…to not be alone.
May 5, 2009 at 12:35 am
I resemble that remark.
May 5, 2009 at 1:16 am
w00t! I’m a niche market!
May 5, 2009 at 1:57 am
Congratulations! You guys are the Special Class of the blogosphere!
May 5, 2009 at 2:28 am
No, boys, you are not there for the “dumb Catholics.”
You have succeeded in the new media on its own terms, not on the basis of prior success in the old media (known to most people as “print”). This is evidence of a paradigm shift in Catholic media in the last two years. To give an example: had I already sold enough books and appeared on EWTN often enough, I could say just about any inane thing on a blog that I wanted, and I’d get a million readers in two years too. But you guys didn’t have those laurels upon which to rest. (In fact, I’m not sure what it is you two do all day. Other than this. Guess it just never came up. Oh well…)
Matthew, Patrick, it can only mean one thing… you’re the next BIG thing. Try not to let it go to your heads.
May 5, 2009 at 3:33 am
Congratulations! I found CMR as a result of a lucky search. I am not a Catholic. But much of what you write resonates with with me. Thank you for your work.
May 5, 2009 at 3:35 am
Kudos! Your site is fun and uplifting. You remind me of the cab driver who got preferential treatment over a priest in heaven. When the priest complained, St. Peter explained that people slept when he preached, but they prayed when they rode the cab.
May 5, 2009 at 5:14 am
Congratulations! Keep up the good work!
May 5, 2009 at 1:27 pm
So, to encapsulate, the concept that the most eloquent wordsmiths of this fine chronological publication of personal thoughts are proposing is quite simply: the blog-O-sphere is lahk a box of chocolates?
May 5, 2009 at 3:48 pm
“So we do this every day for you. The dumb Catholics”
Uh, thanks.
God bless ya!
May 5, 2009 at 4:09 pm
Yay, we’re special. I love this blog, I’m so glad my brother Steve showed it to me, it keeps me from tearing my hair out at work. 🙂 you guys are great. Congrats!
May 5, 2009 at 4:18 pm
Congrats! I’d say you guys are the new “Cafeteria is Closed”. Now, don’t go off the reservation…
May 5, 2009 at 4:23 pm
Congrats! And thanks for all you do! =)
May 5, 2009 at 11:38 pm
Wow! What a milestone!
Congratulations, keep up the great reporting
May 6, 2009 at 2:10 pm
From one of your million – i knew there was a reason i loved this blog – this faithful dummy thanks you!
Martha in Oklahoma (you know, God’s country)