Portrait of Eileen. Coney Island.   Paul Goldfinger ©

Chicken Road, Fairmont, North Carolina. Paul Goldfinger ©

Apollo 11. The Eagle Has Landed. Paul Goldfinger ©  Image taken off the TV.  July 20, 1969. NYC.

By Paul Goldfinger, Editor @Blogfinger.net

Seinfeld was on the air for 9 years and earned over $3 billion. This is our 10th year, and we have been operating in the red. But who cares?   And who’s counting?

During these 10 years, Blogfinger has  had 3,717,485 visits so far. Maybe we will hit 4 million this year. The total number of posts exceeded 8,000 a few months ago.  We post more articles daily than most blogs according to the NJ Top Blog ratings.  We have recently been bringing back some re-runs.

Our biggest year was 2012 with 612,000 hits, but I think that was partly due to Sandy coverage.  The day after Sandy hit, most people around the Northeast did not have Internet access, so we had 25,000 hits that day, broadcasting from Wegmans and McDonald’s.  That stat told me that there are many people who are interested in Ocean Grove, way beyond the numbers who live here.

We are proud of those numbers but also the fact that 180 Bloggers follow us on WordPress.

Our posts may seem to be too long at times for some of you, but the average words per BF post is 150, which is the average at the NY Times for their Letters to the Editor.  Pres. Lincoln used 250 words in the Gettysburg Address.

Blogfinger has created the Town Wide Yard Sale, The People’s Garden Tour, and the Blogfinger Film Festival (one of which was a fund raiser for the Together Fund.) We are also proud of our swarm of posts after Sandy, trying to convince FEMA to award funding for the Grove.

Our staff has varied over the years, and I want to thank all of them…. I will mention their first names:   Charles , Mary , Eileen, Michael, Moe, Stephen,  Ted,  Pegi, Rich, Bob, Yvette, Vince,  Jean, Jack, Sue and Ken.  Also thanks to those citizen reporters who sent us words and pictures. And let’s not forget our poets Charles and George.

One of our readers sent me an email a few years ago asking what will happen to Blogfinger when I die.   I don’t know for sure, but probably it will just disappear into the mist along with Brigadoon. I will probably be dancing with the stars.

And thanks to all our readers.  Some of them have vanished, but new ones come along on a regular basis.

For those who like the photographs, in case you don’t know, just click on the Gallery at the top our home page.

Here is a very special song by Tony Bennett from the movie My Best Friend’s Wedding.