Randall Reitz: "A loving gaze at one-month-old baby blog's navel"http://www.cfha.net/forum_thread.php?t=69Recent posts in Randall Reitz: "A loving gaze at one-month-old baby blog's navel"10/1/09 6:13am by rreitzhttp://www.cfha.net/forum_thread.php?t=69#post129pstrongNavel gazingstrong ney-vuhl-gey-zing ndashnoun slang.nbsp strong1.strong Excessive absorption in self-analysis or focus on a single issue.nbsp strong2.strong An activity conducted by a group that is overly interested in itself such as a movie about Hollywood or a TV show about TV writers.ppnbspnbsppp classMsoNormal styleMARGIN 0in 0in 0ptI suppose a blog post about a blog would constitute navel gazing but I hope yoursquoll indulge me on CBCrsquos 1st month anniversary.nbsp As a family therapist I can easily justify this endeavor by reframing it as ldquogoing metardquo to the system tip of the hat to Mr. Bateson.pp classMsoNormal styleMARGIN 0in 0in 0ptnbsppp classMsoNormal styleMARGIN 0in 0in 0ptHere are a few statspp classMsoNormal styleMARGIN 0in 0in 0ptnbsp -The blog has been visited by 720 unique userspp classMsoNormal styleMARGIN 0in 0in 0ptnbsp -Wersquove posted 17 blogs by 10 authorspp classMsoNormal styleMARGIN 0in 0in 0ptnbsp -Total traffic for the CFHA website is up 70 compared to the previous monthpp classMsoNormal styleMARGIN 0in 0in 0ptnbsp -The blogrsquos busiest day was September 16th when we had 191 hitspp classMsoNormal styleMARGIN 0in 0in 0ptnbsppp classMsoNormal styleMARGIN 0in 0in 0ptSpecial thanks to our esteemed blog authors.nbsp Your insight and scholarship inform our movement and keep people coming backpp classMsoNormal styleMARGIN 0in 0in 0ptnbsp -Sandy Blountpp classMsoNormal styleMARGIN 0in 0in 0ptnbsp -Frank deGruypp classMsoNormal styleMARGIN 0in 0in 0ptnbsp -Bill Dohertypp classMsoNormal styleMARGIN 0in 0in 0ptnbsp -Peter Fifieldpp classMsoNormal styleMARGIN 0in 0in 0ptnbsp -Jennifer Hodgsonpp classMsoNormal styleMARGIN 0in 0in 0ptnbsp -Rusty Kallenbergpp classMsoNormal styleMARGIN 0in 0in 0ptnbsp -Larry Maukschpp classMsoNormal styleMARGIN 0in 0in 0ptnbsp -Ben Millerpp classMsoNormal styleMARGIN 0in 0in 0ptnbsp -JoEllen Pattersonpp classMsoNormal styleMARGIN 0in 0in 0ptnbsppp classMsoNormal styleMARGIN 0in 0in 0ptThe one area Irsquod like to see change is an increase in comments from readership.nbsp We know that lots of people read the blog but a much smaller group of us are adding our 2cent gratefully Ben Miller is up to about 2 by now.nbsp I believe that the log-in function has contributed to this problem.nbsp Wersquove looked into this and for the time being it would be too expensive to remove the log-in.nbsp As a work-around wersquove created a guest log-in username ldquovisitorrdquo password ldquovisitorrdquo.nbsp Please feel free to use it.pp classMsoNormal styleMARGIN 0in 0in 0ptnbsppp classMsoNormal styleMARGIN 0in 0in 0ptPlease provide insights regarding how to improve the blog.nbsp What do you like bestnbsp What do you like leastnbsppp classMsoNormal styleMARGIN 0in 0in 0ptnbsppp classMsoNormal styleMARGIN 0in 0in 0ptThanks for blogging with us and I promise not to engage in overt omphaloskepsis again until baby blogrsquos 1st birthday.nbspp