2012 in review


I forgot about Patriots on Fire‘s third anniversary and have therefore not shared some of its stats. But, fortunately, WordPress is here to remind me of it and spare me the hassle of collecting the data.

So here’s WordPress’ message unedited. I am grateful to Oumelkhir (what happened to her?!) and Chatnoir for having made the comments section very interesting and lively. I must also thank algerianna for her rare but enthusiastic and engaging posts. I am also grateful to all the visitors, those who comment and those who don’t, those who share links to the blog and those who don’t, those who like the blog and those… well you know the story.

This year’s challenge will be to have some visitors from Iceland.

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 37,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 9 Film Festivals

Click here to see the complete report.

“Patriots on Fire” is one year old!


I have to say that I didn’t think I would write this post one day as I wasn’t sure the blog would live that long. But it did. We started the blog after what I call the Egyptian crisis (I believe Algeria had nothing to do with it) following the Algerian qualification for WC2010; but we knew, from the beginning, that it wouldn’t be dedicated to football… or to Egypt.

I guess I should share some statistics. Continue reading