orgtheory.net’s two year anniversary: miscellaneous observations

So, its the two year anniversary of orgtheory today. (Here’s the first post from exactly two years ago.) Below, some miscellaneous observations:

Orgtheory posts:

• Our favorite categories are: sociology, academia, economics, and of course, what does this have to do w/org theory?.
• Our top posts? The following have been visited the most: doll fight, eppure si muove…or does it?, Fabio’s ferret post. The grad school rulz are also extremely popular. Most of our readers, presumably, come for the more academic, org theory-related content.
• We’ve had our controversies, including this one regarding what is “bloggable.” (I anticipate that a standard caveat before research talks will now not only relate to how one’s paper is still at an early stage, and how one would really like feedback, etc etc, but also something — veiled via a joke — related to whether the material can be blogged about or not.)
• We don’t eschew debate.
• And, we don’t mind “just” theory either, the more obscure the better.
• The orgtheory readers are active and tremendously helpful. For example, this post (and associated reader commentary) is helping me put a graduate readings class together for next fall.
• We’ve had some lengthy posts, this one probably takes the cake.
• And, we had a recent, serious identity crisis. (Only true orgtheoristas hung tight.)
• Orgtheory catch phrases.
• We love performativity.

Friends and family of orgtheory:

• We’ve had some great guest bloggers.
• We had a snarky baby sibling emerge last year, scatterplot.
• O&M, our evil twin, picks on us too.
• Then there’s The Soc Shrine, don’t really know what to say about them.
• I’ve noted that the following blogs and/or news outlets, other than our evil twin and younger sibling, have linked to us in some way in the past: Chronicle of Higher Education, Salon, MarginalRevolution, CrookedTimber, DeansTalk.net, Socializing Finance and many other blogs etc.

About the orgtheory guys:

• We’re guys, but not all white nor American.
• Us orgtheory guys probably have a common academic lineage if you go back far enough.
• Some of us wear fanny packs, along with being rather geeky Obamaniacs.
• A few of us (now) prefer macs.
• Some of our posts may have been too much information.

And, orgtheory in numbers:

• We post about 12.5 posts per week.
• On average about 600-700+ unique visitors come by orgtheory each day, 100-150 are loyal returning readers.
• In addition, 400+ unique folks subscribe to orgtheory via the google feed.
• Most of our readers come via .edu sources, so, it appears our stable readership is largely academic: sociology dpts, b-schools, social science dpts, law schools.
• Akismet, wordpress’s spam filter, has protected us from 168,944 spam comments (I think its actually twice that as I recently emptied the spam archive).

The upshot?

• Its been an enjoyable couple years. I don’t think anyone takes us too seriously, and thats just as well since we don’t either.