/UCWE/ - It was an extraordinary year that was for award-winning online magazine Blogcritics.org, the preeminent place to get a personality-plus spin on music, politics, books, film, TV, popular culture, sports, and gaming. 'Tis the season when it's only natural to relax, celebrate with friends and loved ones, and look back at what the last spin round the cosmos brought forth.
In the case of Blogcritics.org, that would be quite a lot, with heaping gift bags more on the horizon for '06. Consider these numerical and digital and community-based online media fortress-ical landmarks:
1,100 Superior Bloggers
With dozens more coming every month, Blogcritics.org is an online magazine with an ever upward telemetry of news, opinions, reviews, analysis, and unique takes you just won't find anywhere else, from beyond the hemisphere to in your villa.
50,000 Daily Visitors
And growing! Blogcritics.org is a global community where people come together to learn, be entertained and informed, and find other people who are interested in something as large as global warming or as small as the microchip powering the latest and greatest gaming platform.
60 Stories Published Daily (40,000 Total in Archives), Hundreds of Thousands of Comments
Where each article ends, the conversation truly begins. Authors and readers and writers and bloggers interact in a unique platform that draws people back again and again.
10,000,000 Visitor Milestone Surpassed
The ten-millionth visitor dropped by Blogcritics.org during the summer, right around the time that third anniversary celebrations were taking place. By the end of 2005, that total number is expected to reach 17.5 million.
25 Editors
The Blogcritics.org staff of contributing editors works tirelessly to improve quality, appearance, and scrumptious substance site-wide. A unique and unparalleled service offered by Blogcritcs.org? Free writing and editing coaching for Blogcritics.org members.
New Sections Added: Gaming (Video Games) and Sports
Expanding upon core coverage of music, books, television, films, culture, and politics, Blogcritics.org is now the place to get up to speed on the speediest athletes and frenziest video games and related technology.
Blogcritics.org Best of 2005 Lists
Blogcritics extraordinaire have weighed in the best books, games, albums, songs, movies, musical groups, sports moments, and styles that have shaped and earmarked 2005.
Feature Columns
From Jon Sobel's New Indie CDs to Christopher Rose's English Premiere League Football Roundup to Natalie Bennett's Friday Femme Fatales, Blogcritics.org offers a myriad of diverse and brightly lit personalities writing loud and proud about every topic under the online sun.
All Blogcritics.org Articles Now Available Via RSS
Every article now has links to a variety of ways to subscribe to Blogcritics.org via RSS (Really Simple Syndication). Subscribing is easy and free and allows visitors to receive every Blogcritics.org article or to specify targeted areas of interest and articles or features written by specific authors.
BC Bargains
Blogcritics Bargains is an unabashedly retail page with great deals on cool stuff presented in an entertaining and lively manner by Craig Lyndall.
BC Blog
Find out what's going on behind the scenes at Blogcritics.org and what innovations, wrinkles, and upgrades are in store.
Blogcritic Victor Lana Publishes The Savage Quiet September Sun
The Savage Quiet September Sun is a collection of poignant stories about New Yorkers suffering through the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and coping with the aftermath.
Passing of Blogcritic Jim Carruthers
The Blogcritics.org community mourned the passing of longtime contributor Jim Carruthers in 2005, a sharp, multifaceted, and engaging writer and thinker.
Blogcritics.org would once again like to wish everyone a joyous, wonderful, and safe holiday season as well as a happy, healthy, and rocking new year!
About Blogcritics.org
Blogcritics.org is a new kind of online magazine, an interactive community in which writers and readers from around the globe talk about stories, issues, and products. If it's happening in the world – from global political issues to obscure rock bands, from the latest best selling novel to the TV shows that aired last night – Blogcritics.org has it covered.
Blogcritics.org was founded by Eric Olsen, who has enjoyed a 25-year career in writing and broadcasting on a vast array of topics including politics, music, and media. Co-owner Phillip Winn built Blogcritics.org, nearly from scratch, and continues to manage the technical and design elements of the site.
Working with Olsen and Winn is a team of over twenty editors dedicated to making Blogcritics.org the premiere Web destination for interactive news, commentary, and reviews.
Blogcritics.org is an official Google News and My Yahoo! source, syndicates content to online editions of newspapers around the United States via the Advance family of websites, and has won numerous awards, including a Bloggie for best music site, Forbes.com's Best Media Blogs, and was recently showcased on the prestigious AlwaysOn and Technorati "Open Media 100" list.
Are you a blogger? Would you like to increase your visibility and reach a very large and growing audience? Then Blogcritics.org may be for you. Visit
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