Webdiary - Founded and Inspired by Margo Kingston

I'm currently in the UK and not around on the site except very occasionally, so the following is just a quick summary. Margo and Fiona are also traveling over the next few days, so responses may be a little slower than usual.

Site statistics

June published article count was up from 14 in May to 20 in June, many of those from the resurgent Margo. Published comments were up from 652 in May to 944 in June. Total traffic to the site was up from 24,769 unique visitors in May to 26,866 in June. As in May, the biggest inbound traffic source site was Nebuchadnezzar's Woolly Days blogspot.

We didn’t publish 24 abusive, content-free or incomprehensible comments.
Total intended for publication and not published: 24/968=2.5%.

Finances

Income in June was $145 in donations and $192.04 from Google Adsense, total $337.04 versus expenditure of $13. Cash in the bank at end June was $1080. We have a current liability to James Cook Uni of $200 for a year's hosting, and income to come from Google for June of approx $45 (USD38.83).

For the past financial year, total income was $2.732.81 in donations and $1,249.57 from adverts, total $4,001.56, while total expenditure was $5,227.83, of which $4,286.43 was on the now-terminated contract with Project Syndicate.