Happy Birthday/Anniversary to Us!

I'm not sure whether to call it a 'birthday' or an 'anniversary', but in any case, this fact calls for celebration -- the Garden of Forking Paths has now been in existence for exactly one year!  That's right, believe it or not, it was May 31, 2004 when we made the official welcome post.  Since that day, the Garden has blossomed into an excellent forum for discussion, with 32 official contributors (not to mention many more regular, but "non-official" commenters), lots of great papers online, and many helpful resources.  Everyone who has helped us achieve such success deserves a big thank you.  So thank you!

And to continue patting ourselves on the back, here are the stats for the past year:

Total number of hits: 85,916     Average per day: 233.47

It's been great fun so far -- let's keep up the good work.  May this next year be even more successful!

P.S. A "Garden Party", in honor of our one year anniversary, is currently in the planning stages.  We'll update you all with details soon.

Comments

[John Fischer]

Thanks so much to Neal and Gustavo for all their excellent work!
Also, thanks to all of our loyal readers and contributors for your support.

[Lujan Ferrari]

Congratulation!I´m one of that loyal readers.
Lujan Ferrari. University National of La Plata, Argentina

[Mark Smeltzer]

No supe que hay personas en Sudamérica leyendo este blog. ¡Qué bueno! ¿En su opinión, comó es el interés filosófico en Argentina y el resto del Sudamérica?

[Kip Werking]

I want to thank Neal and Gustavo too! I was so happy to discover this blog. Before the Garden existed, I couldn't find a good place to discuss these issues.

[Gustavo]

Thanks so much for the encouragement! It's been a lot of fun. And by the way, Mark, I am from Argentina, too. Lujan is an old friend of mine. The funny thing is I never told her about the blog. She discovered it on her own.

[Lujan Ferrari]

Mark, in my view, in general, the department of philosophy in the university of La Plata have a strong interest in French and German tradition. Besides, there are the idea that understand a philosopher means understand his complete works and his place in the philosophy history. This produce an interesting specialized knowledge. But,in my opinion, sometimes this lead to the detriment of discussion and problematic treatment of philosophical topics.