It looks like the AEC Blog recently made the half-million hit mark. 
We seem to be averaging about 3,000 hits a day and approximately 600-700 unique visitors – though right at the moment we’re probably getting on for double that. Carry on like this and we’ll hit the million well before year end.
Which is all to say this is getting to be a nice community and a place for orthodox Canadian Anglicans to gather and comment/discuss/argue etc. I am toying with the idea of developing a forum at some point to go along with the blog, however it is just at the toying stage – I do not have the cycles to investigate it at the moment. If you might be interested in such an endeavour, drop a comment in this post so I can gauge interest. Thanks!
Please note that having a large number of visitors to a website does not mean that you have that many supporters. I visit this site, among others, in order to get the latest Anglican news from a variety of perspectives. Although I visit this site occasionally, I have yet to be impressed by your group’s mission.
Just as the printing press opened up information for the last Reformation, so the internet is the catalyst for change in this new Reformation. I for one am so grateful for the blogs which keep up us to date in the church of “what’s happening now”. I regret the tone of some remarks and we need to remind ourselves to respond with charity, and not fall into cynicism as the behaviour of our Church leaders is revealed. I have to remind myself daily to think on the headship of Jesus Christ and not try to envisage the way things will work out in the future for myself. We must surrender to His will as this new realignment is revealed.
Hi Bob+, you just said the same thing to me, almost word for word, and of course you wanted to remain anonymous there too. And you visit mine daily for news you can’t get from behind the closed doors of your own church. I suspect you are very impressed, how a handful of dissidents has led the vanguard of an Exodus from the ACoC. Look around, attendance is falling, plants, including one in your town are giving the faithful a new home, safe from derision and bullying. You may ‘feel Essentials is silly‘, but even your own national organization agrees
The courts, so far, have not been too sympathetic to Mother Church.
Too bad you can’t be at the conference this week, but the ACoC will probably have an observer and there you would see the fire that you have managed to dim, shining bright and strong.
The door is always open, here you can close your ears to the false teachings of your leaders. You will probably hear news here first.
As one is the Sower so shall he reap.
#1 – private,
No, not every hit will be a supporter, but 3000 hits/day is still an impressive number. I wonder how many hits the ACoC website gets? Considerably less, I suspect.
When looking at the rather moribund Diocese of Niagara discussion board, it becomes apparent that there rather few diocese supporters – even on their own site!
This, I think, is a symptom of the fact that members of ANiC and Essentials are committed to their cause, whereas ACoC members are not – because they really don’t have one.
I thought, ‘private’ about mentioning that, but it was making the paragraph a bit unwieldy. Put it like this if you like:
1) I’m glad that Essentials has an outlet that is read by many people, especially as until recently all the official media was slanted one way. Of those people, most inevitably will be lurkers, many supportive and some not.
2) I’m also glad that we have something of a little community going here, a bit like connecting the dots across Canada, especially as we can’t easily meet in person that often, if at all.
Not to get too blogging-canonical on you, but I think what you really have is 500,000 page views. This is a different stat from site visits or site visitors (hits). A single visitor (hit) coming to you site and looking at 10 different pages (or posts) adds 10 to the top number on the gostats logo, which displays page views total, page views today, and visitors (hits today).
The actual number of hits appears to be around 115,000. That being said, there is really room for only one blog in Canada which claims to be Anglican. I therefore urgently and respectfully request that you comply with para. 179.ii of the Inter-Anglican Interwebbing Protocol (2005) and refrain from further blogging. Your actions have placed a great deal of strain on the broadband networks throughout Canada, not to mention the impediment to further online activity, to which felix hominum holds sole and proprietary claims.
I have written to the Archbishop of Canterbury, and he assures me that he, and all the members of his staff, will in future recognize only my blog as being truly “Canadian” and “Anglican”.
Joseph, Joseph, Joseph, I know we are just imitators hoping to emulate the best but there are enough corners to stick our soap boxes on (remember those days?) Do we have to be licenced by the bishop, cause I just might have an in with one?
Equate this to a newspaper. The unique visitors (subscribers) are 115,xxx which is a pretty healthy number. The sessions are less than visitors, that doesn’t make sense. The half-mil is page views are cumulative page views of all subscribers on the pages.
The Brandon Diocese has had 72,000 visitors in 6 years, about 35 a day, even I the slack blogger that I am do better.
Steve L: I empathize with what you perceive to be a dissonant reading of our shared narrative. However, I must again refer you to the broad vision of Anglican blogging, which, in the intention of the original visionaries of our heritage (to which we look, but to which we are not bound), set in motion an inclusive vision: only one Anglican blog per ecclesiastical province.
Joseph, I am sure you are aware of the meta-narrative here, as Canada’s leading self-important Anglican blogger I alone hold the key to defining the term ‘hit’, which in this case means exactly what I want it to mean, to wit ‘page view’ as you so helpfully pointed out. Still not changing the title.
And we’re still getting a million of the little whatsits soon. 
Actually, since you so helpfully tried to rain on my parade, I just did a little bit of research : http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/H/hit.html
Seems that as far as the term ‘hit’ goes, we’re probably well over a million. Now I feel much better.
Peter, I’m afraid you leave me no choice but to litigate, which is one of those cases where the obvious cultural context (the ancients lived in a litigation-oppressive society), means that we must re-interpret the relevant scriptural passage for today’s context.
As for your attempt to refer to some sort of authoritative document or text, surely you recognize that such human constructs cannot invalidate… excuse me, Peter, TEC is on the phone, and I’ve been offered a position as their new press officer… gotta go.
Am I missing something? What is this nonesense about one Anglican Blog per province? Sounds a little 1984 ish to me.
your fellow unworthy servant in Christ,
Brian De Visser
Pastor Kanata Lakes Fellowship
You should take TEC up on that offer, Joseph, you seem to have them figured out. Of course there should only be one blog per ecclesiastical province, according to the ancient canons of the Church, bloggers must respect geographical boundaries and submit themselves to their respective episcopal authorities. In fact according to p1.67.8 of the Windsor Report, this the consensus of the Communion on this matter.
It’s a joke, Brian. Father Joe’s hobby is pulling people’s chains!
I think that some of us didn’t get quite enough sleep last night (unless your mind works like that all the time, Fr. Joe… 
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I think Brian was joking. Orwellian – you bet – but this is reality.
You certainly have the lingo of the new-speak down just pat Joseph, you should do well.
Is that episcopal province or the more mundane Manitoba type? If the latter I claim sole rights and demand a percentage of blogging that flows through MY province. That could add up to quite a bit depending on your bit-rate, which is independent of your hit-rate.
Hmmm I wonder if they’ll byte or maybe even just a nibble (IT joke)
Please pardon my ignorance as I am fairly new to all these “hits, bits, and bytes”… but what is the difference between a blog and a forum?
Liz. A blog, or web-log, is like a personal on-line diary where you can post your thoughts and opinions or like here matters of the Anglican Church of Canada. Blogs can have a response mechanism, some bloggers don’t allow opinions.
A forum, although like a blog is laid out differently. This forum, the Vicar’s Attic is laid out differently and you have to click on each topic to read it, whereas blogs read more like a newspaper column.
The same and different, blogs are faster and more flowing.
Hits, bits and bytes are sort-of technical terms we use when we try to show off. A byte is a data word, a nibble is part of a byte. Someone, maybe Joseph, stayed up late to think that one up.
Anyway welcome, feel free to contribute and down the right side are a number of wonderful blogs, especially mine, and the usurper Felix
Thanks, Steve. I’m laughing so hard at your humility I’m about to fall off my computer chair. God bless!
I know for a fact that both Joseph and Steve are very humble persons, and both take great pride in their humility.
#20 – LOL!