You are probably aware of the ongoing improvements to WUWT I’ve made. They seem to be paying off. Lately, things have been looking up for WUWT:
Source: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wattsupwiththat.com#trafficstats
WUWT has been in the top 5 on wordpress.com lately, and recently often in the top 3. Today, we are number 1 in all the millions of wordpress blogs out there and we are number two for all posts system wide:
Source: my internal wordpress dashboard (sorry, can’t link)
As a result, I’ve been invited by the higher ups at WordPress.com to join WordPress Enterprise, at a reduced rate from the normal $500 per month. There’s a backstory that I might be able to tell someday, but suffice it to say that I believe I owe this opportunity to something Al Gore did against WUWT .
This Enterprise level of service will add lots of functionality, and the best news: it will allow you to edit your comments to fix typos and other issues, a feature most often asked for.
It will open a whole new dimension for WUWT in many many ways with new features and ways to improve global visibility. This, all while maintaining the high level of uptime and hardened network firewall against the attacks from people that want to bring it down.
I’ve accepted the offer. Thanks to everyone: the moderators, the readers, and the guest authors for bringing WUWT to the top.
The change will be about a month away. There’s a major amount of importing and conversion that must be done by the wordpress.com staff.
On the downside, there’s a cost, not unlike having a monthly car payment. Gone will be the days of a free ride on wordpress.com . I’m hoping that WUWT readers might consider helping me with maintaining the experience. If so, I’ll look into a monthly PayPal program.
Thanks for your consideration, and thanks for being part of the WUWT community – Anthony Watts
Footnote: while I am congratulating the success of the WUWT community, I should also offer congratulations to Andrew Revkin for his DotEarth blog being named to TIME’s top 25. http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/05/dot-earth-makes-time-magazines-list-of-25-top-blogging-efforts/?_r=0
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Gore, Hansen, Mann and the other greenfleecing scumbags spend their lives on planes going from one green jamboree to the next, racking up, what they themeselves would term, huge demonic carbon footprints.
Yet, Anthony Watts conquers the world from an armchair, a wordpress account and a few solar panels on his roof. Oh, the irony.
Very pleased for you, AW … I raise my glass to you … health, wealth, and prosperity !
Congratulations !
Wait a minute! Are you saying that this is going to be a subscribe only website. If my friend, a computer scientist PHD will have to donate to join the thread, he won’t do it. Bad idea if it;s true. You will only be preaching to the choir if you have to pay to play in the now open thread and your thread posts will be cut in half if this is true.
Heartfelt and well deserved congratulations to you Anthony.
Well done Anthony!
How far up the mountain this website has come from its very humble beginnings. I remember when Holtquist, Wilde, and Chiefio were almost the only people having conversations that amounted to anything in the comments. Yes, there was also one odd galah who seemed to insist, in his global warming enthusiasm, that a children’s school was located someplace in the Pacific just off the coast near Perth. Why mention any of this? Because when you recall something of how simply this site began, what it has turned into is all the more astonishing.
Congratulations!
Congratulations Anthony and now I have added incentive to buy Jim Steele’s book. (Hard Copy)
(This is a good idea for other authors too)
@ur momisugly J. Philip Peterson
I don’t believe there is any suggestion of a paywall.
I believe our host is asking whether some of us are prepared to help cover the extra cost, and happily a great many of us are.
This popularity of this central clearinghouse blog is important since uninitiated laypersons so far only suspect that Global Warming was just another mistaken prediction and especially the younger generation is still so enamored with the popular science guys on TV who still promote alarm that they remain quite clueless that a classic case of fraud is at the very center of that theory via Team Hockey Stick, the “smartest guys in the room” who just like Enron executives were among the most qualified to not make mere sloppy mistakes. In time we will be universally looked up to as heroes, not just cranks who once happened to be randomly right about some expert level technicality.
@ur momisugly meltemian says:
August 8, 2013 at 6:20 am
meltemian says:
“@ur momisugly J. Philip Peterson
I don’t believe there is any suggestion of a paywall.
I believe our host is asking whether some of us are prepared to help cover the extra cost, and happily a great many of us are.”
In an earlier post I said I would commit to $5/mo to support WUWT. I was reading too many posts that were describing WUWT as a subscribe only site. My Bad…
J. Philip Peterson!
WOW! I just visited your art site. Someday, your paintings will be considered by the ENTIRE world (not just the art world) as the equal of any of the French Impressionists. Stunning. I could feast my eyes on “Palapa Blanket” all day. Two other favorites: “Tuckerton” and “Nebraska Memory” — beautiful. May I suggest that you re-name “Acidman” –> “Vibe Man” (as in vibrant and in “vibes”, the “acid” had too much of the dingy, repugnant, connotation of someone on an acid trip (he had such a fine, handsome, alert, countenance…); even if he was an acid head, the PAINTING deserves a better name, imo).
Revelling in all those bright, happy, vibrant, colors reminded me of a book of colors (each 2-pages with objects painted in the theme color only) I loved as a child. I can STILL feel the feeling of the orange and the green and the purple (hey — interesting …. coincidence?, the secondary colors remained most vivid in my color-sensation memory) pages. I don’t just see them in memory, I can feel them. I LOVE COLOR!
I’ve discovered that staring at bright-colored (vivid reds, oranges, yellow — not the pastels or medium or pale pinks) begonias elicits far more of the sensation of each color than any other type of flower does. I mean, I can stare at a rose of the exact same shade and not feel the same physical/brain sensation as I do when staring at the begonia. Weird! (and, no, I am not or have I been on ANY drugs, not ever, lol)
Do you also “feel” each color differently? I love to stare at the Christmas lights on the tree, taking a different color in turn. Each, red, blue, pink, golden-yellow, and green has its own “feeling.”
Well, this thread is nearly dead, I think (thus, I wrote so far off topic). I hope you see my admiration. I KNOW you do not need it — you are world class.
Vaya con Dios and WELL DONE!
@ur momisugly Janice Moore says:
August 8, 2013 at 8:33 pm
Thanks Janice, this one is a keeper for me. Actually Acidman was the first blogger I followed, circa 2005 or before. The site still functions even though Acidman passed away in 2006.
http://www.gutrumbles.com/
He was way ahead of his time on the CAGW thing too, come to think of it. First time I have checked his site in years – so thanks for that Janice. I’m still waiting to be discovered in the art world. I’ve been experimenting with color against color since the late 60s.
Here is a sample from Acidman’s blog (all archived by the way):
WAYS TO MAKE ME NOT LIKE YOU
Originally PUBLISHED February 22, 2005
* Diss boiled peanuts.
* Tell me that guns are evil.
* Worry about “Global Warming.”
* Tell me that I’m a racist but Jesse Jackson is not.
* Listen to rap music.
* Quote Maureen Dowd at me.
* Wear a stud or an earrring in your nose.
* Wear sandals with black socks.
* Refuse to eat collard greens.
* Drink “Lite” beer.
* Go into a nice steak restaurant and order chicken.
* Insist on making love with the lights off.
* Get all your news from CNN.
* Wax nostalgic for the wonderful days of the Clinton presidency.
* Use the term “assault rifle” when you don’t know what you’re talking about.
* Refuse to eat grits.
* Call Southerners “Red-Necks” while praising the virtues of living in New Jersey.
* Brake for animals unless the animal is larger than your vehicle.
* Praise the Endangered Species Act.
* Say that I’m not a true Southerner because I like Manhatten-style conch chowder when the alternative is New England style.
* Tell me that Jimmy Carter is a great man.
* Put up with a sassy-mouth from your child.
* Tell me that Southern iced tea is too sweet.
* Call SUVs tools of the devil.
I’m really not that difficult to get along with, but certain things just piss me off.
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J. Philip Peterson, for what its worth (and as I am not an art expert it’s not a lot) I find your paintings interesting and pleasing.
Sort of fauvism meets Monet… with a slightly more subtle colour set. I like it.
Thanks for letting us see your work online.
Phil.. ever since I’ve known you (over 40 yrs) you have been one of the most uniquely established Impressionist painters to ever set a brush to canvas. I have no doubt that you have merely touched the surface of success and will one day receive the recognition your amazing works deserve.
Hugs, Jo
Recently I keep running into people I haven’t seen for 40 years. Thanks for reminding me Jo.
I am humbled by your compliments, Janice, M.C., and Jo.
@ur momisugly J. Philip Peterson, thanks for letting us know you “heard” us!
LOL, that “Acid Man” must have been a fun guy. Thanks for sharing his list, heh, heh. I could agree with almost all of it (ESPECIALLY the socks (of ANY color) with sandals! ugh).
Take care.
M Courtney says:
August 7, 2013 at 1:36 pm
Is WUWT the internet science channel?
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I suspect a lot of WUWT readers would like more science and engineering. climate science is more like a drama class dressing up in lab coats and carrying clip-boards, pretending this makes them scientists. It they want to appear smarter, they put on glasses. fun to watch but after awhile it isn’t as interesting as real science.
M Courtney says:
“I suspect a lot of WUWT readers would like more science and engineering. climate science is more like a drama class dressing up in lab coats and carrying clip-boards, pretending this makes them scientists. It they want to appear smarter, they put on glasses. fun to watch but after awhile it isn’t as interesting as real science.”
I agree. This is a science site, but check out “Night & Day” (Just posted) which doesn’t work too well with the now banned Incandescent light bulbs!!! I think this might be color science.
http://www.purecolorartist.com/night–day.html
Hey, science is science…
It doesn’t work well with the toxic light bulbs now required …. lol
@Janice Moore
Could you use my contact form to maybe discuss this further? Thanks.
Just uploaded a lot of new images…Hey this is science…WUWT.!!!
@ur momisugly J. Philip Peterson — Certainly! Glad to (and, just did).
The science of color and light is PHUN PHYSICS! (I can only discuss the secondary qualities of the physics, though — I am no physicist!)
Now WUWT has become the newest social media site…LOL