Well I am going to stick with LinkWithin this time around.
Not only is it working better now it is also pushing up the hits on some of my older posts and that is a cool thing.
It looks like I could expand it to 4 or 5 links per page instead of just 3. Will have to see how that works out.
ETA: Tried it, was a snap. Is 5 too much?
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Showing posts with label blog. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Friday, July 6, 2012
Tales of Woe
It is a sad day here at The Other Side.
My hard drive died a couple weeks ago. Normally this is a cause for panic, but I didn't because having been doing this for a while I thought I had everything backed up. Well. I didn't.
I didn't lose any of my PDFs save for maybe the most recent ones I bought since May, but I can always go back to DriveThruRPG and re-download those. My current OSR/Old-School books were in the hands of editors, so they were saved.
I did though loose all my documents for my Ghosts of Albion adventures Blight, Obsession, Wilderness and Synchronicity. I have printout of Blight and Obsession, so that isn't too bad. And I lost all my personal emails from 2011-2012.
Figuring it was the circuit board (given the errors I was getting) I worked with a company that specialized in this brand of hard drive (Seagate Barracuda) called PCB Solution.
I worked with Kevin to find a new board for this drive and in truth my hopes were high, even if he felt (and he did tell all this upfront) that my drive might be further gone that I thought it was. Undaunted I picked up their repair kit and got it in a couple of days. It easy easy to do as long as you have no fear of cranking open your computer or drives. I got it in installed and slapped it into a new external drive enclosure and ... nothing.
I worked on a few other tricks I have picked over the years. Back in the day I ran the official usenet alt.sys.pc-clone.gatewat2000 FAQ, so I consider myself a bit smarter than the average bear in this respect. But if there is one thing I have learned, there is always someone smarter. And it will take someone smarter than me to fix this one.
Here is what I have learned (and should known already):
1. It doesn't matter how much you back up. Back up more.
2. Stop buying Seagate drives. Every single one has died on me and took much valued data with it.
So that is what I know.
I do want to publicly thank Kevin at PCB Solution. He really went above and beyond the call of duty to help me.
My hard drive died a couple weeks ago. Normally this is a cause for panic, but I didn't because having been doing this for a while I thought I had everything backed up. Well. I didn't.
I didn't lose any of my PDFs save for maybe the most recent ones I bought since May, but I can always go back to DriveThruRPG and re-download those. My current OSR/Old-School books were in the hands of editors, so they were saved.
I did though loose all my documents for my Ghosts of Albion adventures Blight, Obsession, Wilderness and Synchronicity. I have printout of Blight and Obsession, so that isn't too bad. And I lost all my personal emails from 2011-2012.
Figuring it was the circuit board (given the errors I was getting) I worked with a company that specialized in this brand of hard drive (Seagate Barracuda) called PCB Solution.
I worked with Kevin to find a new board for this drive and in truth my hopes were high, even if he felt (and he did tell all this upfront) that my drive might be further gone that I thought it was. Undaunted I picked up their repair kit and got it in a couple of days. It easy easy to do as long as you have no fear of cranking open your computer or drives. I got it in installed and slapped it into a new external drive enclosure and ... nothing.
I worked on a few other tricks I have picked over the years. Back in the day I ran the official usenet alt.sys.pc-clone.gatewat2000 FAQ, so I consider myself a bit smarter than the average bear in this respect. But if there is one thing I have learned, there is always someone smarter. And it will take someone smarter than me to fix this one.
Here is what I have learned (and should known already):
1. It doesn't matter how much you back up. Back up more.
2. Stop buying Seagate drives. Every single one has died on me and took much valued data with it.
So that is what I know.
I do want to publicly thank Kevin at PCB Solution. He really went above and beyond the call of duty to help me.
Friday, June 29, 2012
LinkWithin
Well I have been trying out LinkWithin on my blog for the 3rd time (or maybe the 4th) and this time it seems to work much better.
In earlier versions of the Other Side layout I had written large parts of my own CSS. The new Blogger layout now gives me the advanced features I wanted without needing to muck around with coding. That is nice since my own coding also has disabled some of the nicer comments features. It also was not very compatible with LinkWithin.
Well now it seems to work better. I am not seeing how the algorithm works; for example how a post on the Zatanna and Hex Girls will also direct you to Dracula, Shakespeare, and D&D Basic. But I guess in my world that makes sense.
The one thing I am noticing that my hits for older pages are way up. That is a good thing. I have over 1200 posts here now, some of that older stuff has to be good too!
Do you like the LinkWithin widget? Are you finding any hidden treasures, not just here, but any blog that uses it?
In earlier versions of the Other Side layout I had written large parts of my own CSS. The new Blogger layout now gives me the advanced features I wanted without needing to muck around with coding. That is nice since my own coding also has disabled some of the nicer comments features. It also was not very compatible with LinkWithin.
Well now it seems to work better. I am not seeing how the algorithm works; for example how a post on the Zatanna and Hex Girls will also direct you to Dracula, Shakespeare, and D&D Basic. But I guess in my world that makes sense.
The one thing I am noticing that my hits for older pages are way up. That is a good thing. I have over 1200 posts here now, some of that older stuff has to be good too!
Do you like the LinkWithin widget? Are you finding any hidden treasures, not just here, but any blog that uses it?
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Dear Google Visitors...
I am sorry. But despite your efforts over the last week you can not find "Supergirl Porn" here.
As a consolation, here is this image.
May you have better luck on other sites.
As a consolation, here is this image.
May you have better luck on other sites.
Sunday, June 3, 2012
Edits
I just got back the edits for both Eldritch Witchery and The Witch within hours of each other.
I have not looked at either yet, but I am expecting there to be some pretty extensive changes and edits to be made.
This will certainly cut into my blogging time here. Just wanted you to know.
I have not looked at either yet, but I am expecting there to be some pretty extensive changes and edits to be made.
This will certainly cut into my blogging time here. Just wanted you to know.
Monday, May 7, 2012
A to Z: Reflections Post
So the A to Z Blog Challenge is over for another April. Not sure what I'll do next year, but I am sure I am going to plan ahead for it better.
How did your journey through the alphabet go? Did you meet new bloggers with similar interests? Are there any you would like to feature and share with others?
Yes. I joined several new-to-me blogs and found a bunch of books I wanted to read from my travels.
What were the highlights for you? (lowlights too...we want to hear it all)
Highlights for this blog was to get the word out on so man great games out to people that didn't know about them. Lowlights...trying to do this for two blogs at the same time!
Did you enjoy posting daily? What was your biggest hurdle? What was your easiest task?
I tend to post everyday anyway. Biggest hurdle was coming up with something appropriate for the letter in question that also fit with my theme. Easiest part was finding games to talk about.
Was time management an issue? (I know, silly question, when isn’t time management an issue - but, it is worth reflecting on)
It did cut into my schedule quite a bit to be honest.
And what about your content - did you have a theme or did you wing it? Was it easy to come up with ideas for each letter, or were some harder?
I had a theme and I stuck with it. But I had thought about it a lot and tried to find games ahead of time.
How about commenting - did you stumble upon lots of sites still using word verification? Did this prevent you from leaving a comment? What worked for your blog?
I tried to visit every blog in the challenge. Yes, I ran into a number that had Word Verification still turned on and it was annoying. Though much worse than that were the people the had to approve my post/comment and then never did.
I keep word verification turned off. I would rather have it easier for my readers than worry about spam.
What will you do different next year? (Yes, you are doing this next year, you know you are, even if your brain is telling you to run for the hills - it appreciates the exercise)
Try to get more posts in before April! Craft the posts in such a way to encourage more feedback.
What pearls of wisdom do you want to share with the Co-Hosts of this event? (We would love to hear from you and know what you think would make this awesome event even better)
There were a number of "dead" sites on the list and some were some that didn't link to their blog, but some other page. You might want to get more Co-Hosts next year to help clean out the non-participants (the ones that signed up then never posted) and dead links.
So I ended up with a bunch of new followers. 50 on the Other Side and almost 20 on Freedom of Nonbelief, and very little overlap between the two.
My growth in views was not as much relative to last year. But that is to be expected really.
I will be participating again next year.
How did your journey through the alphabet go? Did you meet new bloggers with similar interests? Are there any you would like to feature and share with others?
Yes. I joined several new-to-me blogs and found a bunch of books I wanted to read from my travels.
What were the highlights for you? (lowlights too...we want to hear it all)
Highlights for this blog was to get the word out on so man great games out to people that didn't know about them. Lowlights...trying to do this for two blogs at the same time!
Did you enjoy posting daily? What was your biggest hurdle? What was your easiest task?
I tend to post everyday anyway. Biggest hurdle was coming up with something appropriate for the letter in question that also fit with my theme. Easiest part was finding games to talk about.
Was time management an issue? (I know, silly question, when isn’t time management an issue - but, it is worth reflecting on)
It did cut into my schedule quite a bit to be honest.
And what about your content - did you have a theme or did you wing it? Was it easy to come up with ideas for each letter, or were some harder?
I had a theme and I stuck with it. But I had thought about it a lot and tried to find games ahead of time.
How about commenting - did you stumble upon lots of sites still using word verification? Did this prevent you from leaving a comment? What worked for your blog?
I tried to visit every blog in the challenge. Yes, I ran into a number that had Word Verification still turned on and it was annoying. Though much worse than that were the people the had to approve my post/comment and then never did.
I keep word verification turned off. I would rather have it easier for my readers than worry about spam.
What will you do different next year? (Yes, you are doing this next year, you know you are, even if your brain is telling you to run for the hills - it appreciates the exercise)
Try to get more posts in before April! Craft the posts in such a way to encourage more feedback.
What pearls of wisdom do you want to share with the Co-Hosts of this event? (We would love to hear from you and know what you think would make this awesome event even better)
There were a number of "dead" sites on the list and some were some that didn't link to their blog, but some other page. You might want to get more Co-Hosts next year to help clean out the non-participants (the ones that signed up then never posted) and dead links.
So I ended up with a bunch of new followers. 50 on the Other Side and almost 20 on Freedom of Nonbelief, and very little overlap between the two.
My growth in views was not as much relative to last year. But that is to be expected really.
I will be participating again next year.
Saturday, March 31, 2012
A to Z Challenge
Tomorrow begins the April A to Z blogging challenge.
This year I am doing it not just once, but twice.
I have signed up my other blog, The Freedom of Nonbelief, to the challenge as well.
I felt that my other blog could also gain from the exposure and it would help me collect my thoughts some on what I think that blog should be about.
So please join me over there as I go through the A to Z of atheism, skepticism and free thought.
Here at the Other Side, I am going to be doing the A to Z of RPGs. I am going to pick a game for each letter and talk about it. I am though having trouble with the letter I. I am thinking I should do In Nomine, but not sure yet.
I am open to suggestions!
If you are coming here from the Challenge, then please leave a link back to your own blog.
This year I am doing it not just once, but twice.
I have signed up my other blog, The Freedom of Nonbelief, to the challenge as well.
I felt that my other blog could also gain from the exposure and it would help me collect my thoughts some on what I think that blog should be about.
So please join me over there as I go through the A to Z of atheism, skepticism and free thought.
Here at the Other Side, I am going to be doing the A to Z of RPGs. I am going to pick a game for each letter and talk about it. I am though having trouble with the letter I. I am thinking I should do In Nomine, but not sure yet.
I am open to suggestions!
If you are coming here from the Challenge, then please leave a link back to your own blog.
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Blog Roll Fixed
The simple solution was to split up my blog rolls.
You will now see I have an RPG one and an Everything Else one that has all the writing, horror, comic and other stuff I read.
My RPG one though is now just as full as it was before, so even if it is an RPG site chances are I'll have to add you to the other blog roll.
You will now see I have an RPG one and an Everything Else one that has all the writing, horror, comic and other stuff I read.
My RPG one though is now just as full as it was before, so even if it is an RPG site chances are I'll have to add you to the other blog roll.
Blog Roll
You might notice my blog roll is gone.
I am attempting to fix it and add the new blogs I am following and maybe even arrange them in some sort of order.
I am attempting to fix it and add the new blogs I am following and maybe even arrange them in some sort of order.
Friday, March 9, 2012
Random updates, links and posts
Hey. It's been a crazy couple of weeks with home, work and stuff. I have been neglecting you, my blog audience and that is not fair.
But don't expect it change yet today. ;)
I am though posting some half baked posts I have started over the last two weeks into one big random update. Might not be the best post ever, but it lets you know I am still here.
• First up my friend Elizabeth J. Kolodziej has a kickstarter up for her new book. She is the author of the "The Last Witch" series and I reviewed the first book here a year ago today. Kickstarter seems to be the way to go these days for starting authors.
http://www.facebook.com/events/200302106741659/
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1960643778/help-publish-the-last-witch-series
• Need a demon? Demonicpedia then is the internet's version of the Demoniomicon of Iggwilv.
http://www.demonicpedia.com/
It is still a little new and not very full yet, but like all -pedias out there based on the media wiki software this one can be edited by you. My readers here are diverse, but horror is something most of you have in common. So I see you all as being more contributor types than just passive readers.
• A couple years back I got a book of Sherlock Holmes stories from my friend Greg Littlejohn. I am finally getting around to reading it and I am enjoying the hell of it. Watch out Ghosts of Albion players my mind is boiling over with ideas!
• Thanks to the recent GMs day sale at DriveThruRPG I bought a bunch of stock art for my upcoming books. Now I just need to make enough money off of these to cover all the costs!
• Speaking of Kickstarters and ongoing works in progress. The Player's Companion to Adventure Conqueror King is underway. I can confirm now I did a little bit of work on the Witch class. The author of the class also drew on my 3.0 witch as inspiration. The ACKS Witch is very different from either my withes in "The Witch" or from "Eldritch Witchery" but all three are largely compatible. Once all three are out expect a post.
More soon!
But don't expect it change yet today. ;)
I am though posting some half baked posts I have started over the last two weeks into one big random update. Might not be the best post ever, but it lets you know I am still here.
• First up my friend Elizabeth J. Kolodziej has a kickstarter up for her new book. She is the author of the "The Last Witch" series and I reviewed the first book here a year ago today. Kickstarter seems to be the way to go these days for starting authors.
http://www.facebook.com/events/200302106741659/
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1960643778/help-publish-the-last-witch-series
• Need a demon? Demonicpedia then is the internet's version of the Demoniomicon of Iggwilv.
http://www.demonicpedia.com/
It is still a little new and not very full yet, but like all -pedias out there based on the media wiki software this one can be edited by you. My readers here are diverse, but horror is something most of you have in common. So I see you all as being more contributor types than just passive readers.
• A couple years back I got a book of Sherlock Holmes stories from my friend Greg Littlejohn. I am finally getting around to reading it and I am enjoying the hell of it. Watch out Ghosts of Albion players my mind is boiling over with ideas!
• Thanks to the recent GMs day sale at DriveThruRPG I bought a bunch of stock art for my upcoming books. Now I just need to make enough money off of these to cover all the costs!
• Speaking of Kickstarters and ongoing works in progress. The Player's Companion to Adventure Conqueror King is underway. I can confirm now I did a little bit of work on the Witch class. The author of the class also drew on my 3.0 witch as inspiration. The ACKS Witch is very different from either my withes in "The Witch" or from "Eldritch Witchery" but all three are largely compatible. Once all three are out expect a post.
More soon!
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Blogroll broken
Like many of you, my blogroll seems to be broken.
I can't add or remove blogs from it. Shame really, I had found some new blogs I hoped would be nice additions. Anyone figure out how to fix it yet?
I can't add or remove blogs from it. Shame really, I had found some new blogs I hoped would be nice additions. Anyone figure out how to fix it yet?
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Sorry for the interuption
Been kind of a bad week you know.
Thanks to everyone that posted here, G+ and Facebook about my brother Mike. The world certainly is a poorer place with out him in it.
I have some posts to get back too; I have had the Blog on auto-pilot this week. Well sorta, the post from last night was supposed to post today.
What do I know?
Well. My Basic Era witch book "The Witch" is done. I just need to get all the art in.
I am doing the A to Z challenge in April. More on that soon.
The new hotness right now is the new Marvel Heroic Roleplaying game from MWP.
I have it, I have read parts of it, but I am no where near ready for a review yet.
Thanks to everyone that posted here, G+ and Facebook about my brother Mike. The world certainly is a poorer place with out him in it.
I have some posts to get back too; I have had the Blog on auto-pilot this week. Well sorta, the post from last night was supposed to post today.
What do I know?
Well. My Basic Era witch book "The Witch" is done. I just need to get all the art in.
I am doing the A to Z challenge in April. More on that soon.
The new hotness right now is the new Marvel Heroic Roleplaying game from MWP.
I have it, I have read parts of it, but I am no where near ready for a review yet.
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
White Dwarf Wednesday
Hello all.
No White Dwarf Wednesday today. I am out of town on a family emergency and I am not back yet.
You can read about it here.
http://www.buchanancody.com/fh/obituaries/obituary.cfm?o_id=1399499&fh_id=12328
Back when I can.
No White Dwarf Wednesday today. I am out of town on a family emergency and I am not back yet.
You can read about it here.
http://www.buchanancody.com/fh/obituaries/obituary.cfm?o_id=1399499&fh_id=12328
Back when I can.
Friday, February 3, 2012
Random Updates
A couple of updates this morning.
Like Victorian era RPGs? Don't forget about my Victorian Gamers Association on Facebook.
http://www.facebook.com/groups/117617184004/
There is a winner for the "I'll Tumble 4 Ya" contest!
Bob correctly identified Stevie Nicks as my big 80's (and 90s...) crush.
His 10 dollar gift code for DriveThruRPG has been sent out.
I picked up a couple of new horror games that I hope to have reviews up for soon.
Like Victorian era RPGs? Don't forget about my Victorian Gamers Association on Facebook.
http://www.facebook.com/groups/117617184004/
There is a winner for the "I'll Tumble 4 Ya" contest!
Bob correctly identified Stevie Nicks as my big 80's (and 90s...) crush.
His 10 dollar gift code for DriveThruRPG has been sent out.
I picked up a couple of new horror games that I hope to have reviews up for soon.
Monday, January 30, 2012
Post 1000!
This marks my 1000th post here at the Other Side.
That's a lot of text. ;)
I hope you all have been enjoying this as much as I have.
This has been a great ride and more emotionally satisfying than I would have thought it could have been. So here is to my next 1000 posts! I hope they are every bit as fun to do and I hope you enjoy them as much.
That's a lot of text. ;)
I hope you all have been enjoying this as much as I have.
This has been a great ride and more emotionally satisfying than I would have thought it could have been. So here is to my next 1000 posts! I hope they are every bit as fun to do and I hope you enjoy them as much.
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Zatannurday: Year One
So what can we say one year later? Well we saw one Zatanna comic wrap-up (her self-titled series) and another come up (Justice League Dark). Her TV portrayals were limited to cartoons (though she was mentioned in the last season of Smallville) with here Silver Age counterpart appearing in "Batman The Brave in the Bold" and a younger version in "Young Justice".
My most popular post was the one on Adam Hughes, http://timbrannan.blogspot.com/2011/03/zatannurday-adam-hughes.html but I think that is entirely due to the art on the page and image searches.
My most linked to post was the one where I mentioned she was going to be in Young Justice, http://timbrannan.blogspot.com/2011/10/zatannurday-its-in-cards.html
The most commented one was the posting of Christie Zulo art, http://timbrannan.blogspot.com/2011/04/zatannurday-z-is-for-zatanna-and-zullo.html
This was also the last posting I did for the A to Z challenge and the one that convinced me that the A to Z challenge was worth doing. The first post actually got more comments, but those were comments about the whole idea and less about post itself.
I am very pleased with how all these posts turned out. Plus it has given me something to look forward to each week and give people something new on Saturdays, a day that had been pretty dead on the ole Other Side.
So here is to another year and plenty of magical Zatannurday posts!
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
New Year, New Look
I am going to be working on the look of the Other Side here for a bit. New Year and all.
If you are reading this in a reader, can you please stop by and let me know what you think.
This gives me readability feedback AND helps me check to make sure I put the Google Analytics codes in right.
Thanks!
If you are reading this in a reader, can you please stop by and let me know what you think.
This gives me readability feedback AND helps me check to make sure I put the Google Analytics codes in right.
Thanks!
Sunday, January 1, 2012
2011 by the Numbers
In my corner of the world it is now 2012. Which means it is 2012 where you are too. But before I move on to 2012 and the all things new, here is a run down of the numbers here at the Other Side.
511 total posts in 2011.
According to Google Analytics here are some visitor stats.
92,225 people visited this site
127,168 Visits
92,225 Unique Visitors
191,473 Pageviews
1.51 Pages/Visit
00:01:07 Avg. Time on Site
71.16% Bounce Rate
71.65% % New Visits
The top 5 countries were
USA 67,909 visits
UK 9,104 visits
Canada 7,760 visits
Australia 3,538 visits
Germany 3,506
Not counting my root page, my most visited pages in 2011 were:
Xena and Gabrielle 31,114 views
Elzabeth Bathory 10,756 views
Zatnnurday, Adam Hughes 2,845 views
Hex Girls, 2,839 views
T is for Trogdor, 2,797 views
Willow & Tara, Macho Women with Guns, 2,198 views
More races of Mystoerth Goblins, 2,135 views
New Hex Girls, 1,827 views
Willow and Tara Page, 1,642 views
Demons Run, when chased by Madame Vastra and Jenny, 1,571 views
Top 10 search words to get to my site:
Xena
Trogdor
Dracula
Hex Girls
Elizabeth Bathory
Zatanna Young Justice
Adam Hughes
Goblins
Witch Hunter Robin
Wikipwdia (note the typo. That stupid typo gave me 317 extra hits last year)
Top 10 Sources of page hits (not counting search engines)
RPGBloggers
The Underdark Gazette (may it rest in peace. forget that, just update the link)
Risus Monkey
Hero Press/I'd Rather Be Killing Monsters
RPG.Net Forums
The Hex Girls coven
Our Valued Customers (make one pot joke and the hits go through the roof)
Eternal Keep
Grognardia
Destination Unknown
My most visited period was between July 24 and October 31 where I was averaging 200 unique visitors a day. Lately, I have dropped to about 100. Don't know why yet.
My most commented pages were:
All Fun and Games, 31 comments
More OSRIC Player's Guide woes, 28 comments
But, shouldn't we aspire to be the Hero?, 27 comments
There goes my last shred of OSR-ness, 18 comments
Worst Movies Ever, 17 comments
Should WotC support ALL D&D?, 17 comments
Question for my Readers, 16 comments
Skills in D&D, 15 comments
Product Changes at WotC: no more Minis, 14 comments
My collection is now complete, 12 comments
What did 2011 give us?
Well, we saw more OSR products than ever and finally something more than just another retro-clone.
Back in Gen Con 2010 people kept telling me about the death of 4e in 2011, it never happened, but it also didn't sell enough compared to Pathfinder.
Ghosts of Albion saw print! I also got paid for my first official D&D writing gig. Though I didn't get "The Witch" out when I wanted.
My Zatannurday posts were a huge success in my mind (and according to the stats) so I am hoping for more this year.
My number of followers nearly doubled, most of them were from outside of the RPG and OSR circles, so that is nice.
I joined a bunch of blogfests which was fun and got me a bunch of hits and new followers and exposed the Other Side to a much wider audience. I would suggest that other OSR blogs do the same, we tend to get into a rut to be honest.
Now. On to 2012!!
511 total posts in 2011.
According to Google Analytics here are some visitor stats.
92,225 people visited this site
127,168 Visits
92,225 Unique Visitors
191,473 Pageviews
1.51 Pages/Visit
00:01:07 Avg. Time on Site
71.16% Bounce Rate
71.65% % New Visits
The top 5 countries were
USA 67,909 visits
UK 9,104 visits
Canada 7,760 visits
Australia 3,538 visits
Germany 3,506
Not counting my root page, my most visited pages in 2011 were:
Xena and Gabrielle 31,114 views
Elzabeth Bathory 10,756 views
Zatnnurday, Adam Hughes 2,845 views
Hex Girls, 2,839 views
T is for Trogdor, 2,797 views
Willow & Tara, Macho Women with Guns, 2,198 views
More races of Mystoerth Goblins, 2,135 views
New Hex Girls, 1,827 views
Willow and Tara Page, 1,642 views
Demons Run, when chased by Madame Vastra and Jenny, 1,571 views
Top 10 search words to get to my site:
Xena
Trogdor
Dracula
Hex Girls
Elizabeth Bathory
Zatanna Young Justice
Adam Hughes
Goblins
Witch Hunter Robin
Wikipwdia (note the typo. That stupid typo gave me 317 extra hits last year)
Top 10 Sources of page hits (not counting search engines)
RPGBloggers
The Underdark Gazette (may it rest in peace. forget that, just update the link)
Risus Monkey
Hero Press/I'd Rather Be Killing Monsters
RPG.Net Forums
The Hex Girls coven
Our Valued Customers (make one pot joke and the hits go through the roof)
Eternal Keep
Grognardia
Destination Unknown
My most visited period was between July 24 and October 31 where I was averaging 200 unique visitors a day. Lately, I have dropped to about 100. Don't know why yet.
My most commented pages were:
All Fun and Games, 31 comments
More OSRIC Player's Guide woes, 28 comments
But, shouldn't we aspire to be the Hero?, 27 comments
There goes my last shred of OSR-ness, 18 comments
Worst Movies Ever, 17 comments
Should WotC support ALL D&D?, 17 comments
Question for my Readers, 16 comments
Skills in D&D, 15 comments
Product Changes at WotC: no more Minis, 14 comments
My collection is now complete, 12 comments
What did 2011 give us?
Well, we saw more OSR products than ever and finally something more than just another retro-clone.
Back in Gen Con 2010 people kept telling me about the death of 4e in 2011, it never happened, but it also didn't sell enough compared to Pathfinder.
Ghosts of Albion saw print! I also got paid for my first official D&D writing gig. Though I didn't get "The Witch" out when I wanted.
My Zatannurday posts were a huge success in my mind (and according to the stats) so I am hoping for more this year.
My number of followers nearly doubled, most of them were from outside of the RPG and OSR circles, so that is nice.
I joined a bunch of blogfests which was fun and got me a bunch of hits and new followers and exposed the Other Side to a much wider audience. I would suggest that other OSR blogs do the same, we tend to get into a rut to be honest.
Now. On to 2012!!
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Looking Forward to 2012: Reviews
In 2011 I wanted to get 400 new reviews done and up at DriveThru RPG.
The trouble is that 400 products take a long time to do. I did get about 200 in all said and told.
So this year I'd like to get some more reviews up. I want to share what I like with you all and hope that you return the favor and tell me what you like, or don't like. Sometimes this is the best way to learn of a new product.
Most of my reviews, the vast majority really, will be on DriveThruRPG / RPGNow. Though I'll continue doing longer reviews for RPG Net and Amazon.
The trouble is that 400 products take a long time to do. I did get about 200 in all said and told.
So this year I'd like to get some more reviews up. I want to share what I like with you all and hope that you return the favor and tell me what you like, or don't like. Sometimes this is the best way to learn of a new product.
Most of my reviews, the vast majority really, will be on DriveThruRPG / RPGNow. Though I'll continue doing longer reviews for RPG Net and Amazon.
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Updated pages
I am going to be making some mostly cosmetic changes to the old Other Side here for the new year.
Not changing scope or posts or anything like that.
I am though working on how information is organized and how things look.
So yesterday I started with the Pages. Those are the links above, just under the banner.
I added a new Mystoerth page which details my *D&D campaign world. There are a lot of internal links to material I have written here and links to outside sources that I also like to use. If you know of a blog or website that should be linked here, let me know.
I combined the "About Me" and "My Books" page into one About Me page.
My Links Page is still the same, I might add the awards I have gotten though since those are to be linked back to other blogs.
I have added a few new builds to my Willow & Tara page and my Characters page.
Ghosts of Albion still gets it's own page. As does my OGL declaration.
Not changing scope or posts or anything like that.
I am though working on how information is organized and how things look.
So yesterday I started with the Pages. Those are the links above, just under the banner.
I added a new Mystoerth page which details my *D&D campaign world. There are a lot of internal links to material I have written here and links to outside sources that I also like to use. If you know of a blog or website that should be linked here, let me know.
I combined the "About Me" and "My Books" page into one About Me page.
My Links Page is still the same, I might add the awards I have gotten though since those are to be linked back to other blogs.
I have added a few new builds to my Willow & Tara page and my Characters page.
Ghosts of Albion still gets it's own page. As does my OGL declaration.
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