Podium Cafe 2008: The Year That Was
by Chris Fontecchio on Jan 1, 2009 10:37 AM EST
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PrintHappy 2009 everyone! I don't want to give an emotional speech about what a great year 2008 was for the Cafe; you guys know I love you. So, some statistics... and you know what they say: statistics always tell an important story.
- 1,054: the number of posts
- 1,170: the total number of fanposts, fanshots and diaries (PdC1.0-speak)
- 112,257: total number of comments
- 596: number of registered members. I never had statistics under the old platform, but I believe we began 2008 with some 200 members. Not sure that the site is three times as popular; perhaps we just gave lurkers three times as much incentive to register.
- 2.0: probably the most important number of all. To get all misty-eyed, go here.
- 3 milion: historical page views milestone, crossed in the last week. We should hit a million visits this year, approximately sometime between the Valkenberg and the Muur van Geraardsbergen.
- 227,288: number of page views in July alone.
- 1,324,771: pictures of Daniele Bennati. Are pictures like chocolate? Is there a point where you've seen so many that he stops being good looking?
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Congrats Chris
Happy New Year to you and all the Podium Café-ers.
Sometimes I wonder...why is that Frisbee getting bigger?...and then it hits me.
Right back at ya
#84
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by Chris Fontecchio on Jan 1, 2009 11:08 AM EST up reply actions
#84? Are we the new Spectre?
If so I’ve got dibs on the separating yacht/speedboat.
Carlos Sastre - Tour de France winner - Born From Jets
The Village
Possibly. One you land here you never leave.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prisoner
Chris is #2? lol
heh
nope #6
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by Chris Fontecchio on Jan 1, 2009 12:07 PM EST up reply actions
But I miss one statistic..
How many country’s are represented?
Some say the best things in life, are one the inside.
well
the sitemeter registers 23 countries, plus 2.5% of the traffic to “miscellaneous,” which could be maybe another dozen countries or so?
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by Chris Fontecchio on Jan 1, 2009 11:56 AM EST up reply actions
that's a good question
(and useful answer, from Chris)
One of the (many) things I appreciate about this place is the worldwide distribution of the community. It improves the experience for everyone, and I hope we’ll keep building this global community.
Yeah.. but 23?!?
That’s 10 more than I though.. When iIcounted I came up with 6 countrys..
1 USA 2 Netherlands 3 Canada 4 Great Brittain 5 Australia 6 Sweden..
So how are the other 17?
Some say the best things in life, are one the inside.
here is the page
can you see this? might just be for me…
http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s18podiumcafe&r=83
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by Chris Fontecchio on Jan 1, 2009 7:58 PM EST up reply actions
I think it's clear
from the fact that I am not pelted with fermented lutefisk whenever I leave my house that there aren’t many norwegians who have found this site yet, God knows I have written enough to deserve it.
It’s a bit strange since they are crazy going nuts for cycling in Norway these days (as proven by the fact that we were all able to mooch of their daily live coverage of the Giro). I have no explanation.
Carlos Sastre - Tour de France winner - Born From Jets
China and Taiwan
for sure (oh, wait, did I just create an incident? Suck it, Beijing.). Portugal, Switzerland, and France all get regular representation on here, too. I also know of Dubai lurkers, for sure (c’mon, D.!) I’d really love to draw more people out into opinionated participation – I suspect we’ll see more of that this coming year.
hm
not seeing China, though my friend Steve is there, and reading. The Middle Kingdom must be one of the “miscellaneous.” Boy, that would go over well…
Others: Estonia, Poland, Japan, NZ, Ireland, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Finland, Belgium (yay!), Italy, Spain, Greece, Belarus, Korea, Argentina and the Philippines. There are lots of others, albeit more rare.
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by Chris Fontecchio on Jan 1, 2009 9:34 PM EST up reply actions
We have Kiwis posting for sure (Shades and a couple of others)
And Japan (not including when I popped in from Japan) and Germany and of course Portugal (Semprenaroda). Estonia? Who knew? Now I’ll have to stop making Estonian language jokes. But seriously, they have some good cyclists. Heck, if they google their own names, they’ll get here.
Does chocolate ever stop being good looking?
And you know, not all of us prefer Italian. Some of us would rather go Dutch.
Google is my domestique.
And you have a wonderful site
Which you have mis-spelled on your PdC profile page, more’s the pity. (Been meaning to tell you that—figure you’ll check back here to see what response the previous comment gets [wink]).
Dekker, my favourite Dutch man...
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950
....and some prefer those wonderful Spanish boys!!
I think I can put 1 million plus of Valverde this year -grin-
Credit: Roberto Bettini.? Really? Is that to his credit?
First item at the to-do list at Katusha camp: Beat riders with ugly-stick.
Also I’m not to sure I’d love the symbolism ofthat Latvian Champ’s jersey (if I were from Latvia). The Kremlin towering over the Latvian flag? That’s got to bring back fond memories?
Carlos Sastre - Tour de France winner - Born From Jets
It's not Latvia, the Latvia champ is Lasis Normunds
who is racing for some continental team this year, I’m also guessing that is Pfannberger.
"If you go (with a break), you can either win or not win. If you don't go for it, you definitely won't win."
~ Jens Voigt
reason # 2,736
to love the PdC: people who know who the Latvian champ is.
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by Chris Fontecchio on Jan 1, 2009 4:52 PM EST up reply actions
I looked it up on CQ
I don’t think I would be all that proud if I had so little reason to live that I knew who the Latvian champ was.
"If you go (with a break), you can either win or not win. If you don't go for it, you definitely won't win."
~ Jens Voigt
I'm sure the identity of the Latvian champ is very important to Latvians!
Pretty sure that is Pfannberger…it looks remerkably like him and it’s the right team!
But I'm not Latvian, so I don't care all that much who the Latvian champ is
and yes the jersey looks like the Austrian champ jersey, so that must be Pfannberger, Ivenov with the Russian champ jersey is aslo in there.
"If you go (with a break), you can either win or not win. If you don't go for it, you definitely won't win."
~ Jens Voigt
Wow. I had to look three times to find him.
Apparently, Russian hair gel does not stand up to a good sea breeze.
Google is my domestique.
Here he is
up close,. With the team’s budget perhaps they could afford to add some proper gel, and a stylist or two.
He looks very odd generally.
The hair is very unfortunate. Perhaps his alarm clock malfunctioned and he didn’t have time to do it? I feel sure that this can be the only explanation. He looks rather peeved; perhaps he’s annoyed that his shoes got covered in sand? And that bike….surely a very odd fit there?!
the bike?
It probably fits fine, he’s just riding the smallest possible frame size he can. Pros tend to do that. Do not try this at home ;-)
Thats is so true...LoL
Now are they Autobots or Decepticons??
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950
How about some Jens!...
…to erase this memory? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjefafbeT74&feature=channel_page) Plus, there is some Julich in the background.
I feel violated by Vladimir Karpets mullet
Can I sue him? Or it?
Bork, bork, bork!
by TheFigurehead on Jan 1, 2009 5:56 PM EST up reply actions
Things I've Learned From American Pop Culture #754:
Anyone and everyone named Vladimir is a vampire.
Don’t mess with him.
Google is my domestique.
Guten Ratsch!
Everyone, have a “good slide” into 2009!
Chris, buddy, my sincere thanks to you (& your cohorts) for creating such a fun place to hang. Only 56 days to Het Volk!
Look at you poppin' in here. I thought you were in WI with hubby for a few days.
We’ve got live 6 day action going on over in the fanshot section. Sweet stuff.
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
WOW Chris--
The “”http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s18podiumcafe&r=79&d=13&md=1&pg=1&v=200" target="new">100 most recent visits" is cool. Looks like the Canary islands and the Azores, even. And who’s that far north in Canda???
hey!!
don’t confuse Azores with Madeira…
This guy will be piss off.
http://abnoxio.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/cuec.jpg
(president of the governement of Madeira over 30 years)
I know
I used to click that about 20 times a day. There was always a surprise or two (Iran!).
CQRanking.com, you complete me.
by Chris Fontecchio on Jan 3, 2009 10:20 AM EST up reply actions
Ohh know that would be funny..
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950
Edit.... Now
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950
Hey
Chicago is a big biking town. And the PEOTUS has a good climbers’ build. But the smoking…
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by Chris Fontecchio on Jan 3, 2009 10:21 AM EST up reply actions
Oh
You mean Lance? Yeah maybe.
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by Chris Fontecchio on Jan 3, 2009 7:02 PM EST up reply actions
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