Webdiary - Founded and Inspired by Margo Kingston

August stats

For some time the management team has been considering ways of taking Webdiary beyond its traditional function as a forum for the discussion of anything and everything, especially politics. Now Malcolm B Duncan has come up with the idea of a notice board - a Town Crier - and we think it's worth a try. So, over to you – when does the book club next meet?

My hope is to become fully engaged with this community while learning as much as possible about the online blogging sites by the time I am finished with my studies here. However, after I am finished, I hope to remain an integral part of this community and take it with me to wherever I am headed next –the beauty of the web.

July stats

Margo and I have been talking since the Byron Writer's festival last year about getting students involved in Webdiary - in writing,commenting and site building/maintenance. But this can only happen if the Webdiary community is willing to embrace it.

Soppy rhyme inside.  It needs a picture, if anyone's got one. Happy Birthday Fiona! (Oh yes, and Malcolm too!) Please sign!

May site statistics and financials, with a bit of extra analysis on who you all are.

As in previous years, Cirque du Soleil have donated thousands of seats for Dralion to Oxfam. If you were thinking of going, please consider going on those nights when your money goes to Oxfam: Sydney: 18, 19, 25, 26 September 2008: Canberra:  6, 7, 13, 14 November 2008.

… well, there we were a couple of weeks ago, David Roffey, Richard Tonkin and I, enjoying a glass or three of a cheeky little shiraz in the virtual bar, and having one of our occasional chats about whither Webdiary.

April site statistics and financials

You will have noticed some changes over the last few weeks coming from having updated the site to Drupal 5.2: unfortunately, we found a problem in the comment management system, and had to suspend comment boxes until it was fixed - which it now has been - thanks, Nigel.

March stats & financials, plus some news on a potential development

February stats and financials - still no opps for money laundering.

January stats, and a question on the integrity of Webdiary archives.

December unsurprisingly quieter on the site than November ...

Webdiarist extraordinaire Hamish Alcorn is about to celebrate a very important birthday...

"A few weeks ago my wife, frustrated at the amount of time I spend onWebdiary, said ‘They’re really your community, aren’t they?’  I hadn’treally thought about it in those terms before, but it’s true. Webdiarists are part of my community – my virtual community, anyway(although cyberspace and meatspace have become increasingly blurred asI meet various diarists face-to-face or over the phone)." David Curry

November 07 our strongest month ever ... Must have been something happening ...

October site statistics and financials.

Margo Kingston and John Valder launch Still Not Happy John
Monday 8 October, 5:30pm, Manning Clarke House,
11 Tasmania Circuit, Forest. Be there!

August & September site statistics and finances

July site statistics and financials

June and 2006-7 site statistics and financials.

May site statistics and financials.

April site statistics and financials.

Following yet another run of problems over the last few days we have moved to another hosting provider. Update: password system now fixed.

It would appear that the system is failing to send out passwords for new accounts etc - and we currently can't work out why: if you have registered but not received a password, email  admin@webdiary.com.au and I will set a new password for you ...

March site statistics and financials

February statistics and financials, plus news on Project Syndicate.

We ceased publishing P-S-sourced articles at the end of February. Webdiarists interested in following the writings of messrs Singer, Sachs, Stiglitz, Rogoff, Nye, DeLong and others can do so at the Project Syndicate site.