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ChickenBones: A Journal
Statistical Activity
Total 2011:
Sessions: 1,513,265 / Pageviews: 4,533,639 /
Hits:14,898,407
Total 2010:
Sessions 1,765,952.00 / Pageviews 6,318,151.00 / Hits
18,159,549.00
Total 2006:
January 1 -December 31, 2006:
1,919,282.00 sessions; 3,387,903.00 pageviews;
12,120,002.00 hits
New Total: January
to June 26, 2005: 887, 268 visitors; 1,127, 139 pageviews
Total 2005 : January
to May 31: 779,00 visitors; 990,585 pageviews; 3.6 million hits
Total 2005: (January
to March 22): 373,591 visitors; 481,802 pageviews; 1,694,071 hits
Total 2004: 925,116 visitors;
1,281,189 pageviews; 4,791,414 hits
April Report: 75, 215 visitors; 87,404 page views
March Report: 91, 183 visitors; 3,538 (av. page
views per visitor)
February Report: 107, 623 visitors; 3,711 (av. page views
per visitor)
January Report: 73,604 visitors; 84, 458 page views
Total 2003: 582,961 visitors;
5.183
million hits
A Report from the Editor (January 2004)
ChickenBones: A Journal (www.nathanielturner.com)
is a non-profit, non-commercial effort to make inaccessible
information accessible. Our continuing efforts are dependent on
the selfless donations and contributions to the Journal. Presently, we have no paid staff, only unpaid volunteers.
We are exceedingly thankful for contributions
made in 2003, which were less than a $1,000, ranging from $10 to
$50. The total intake was not great, but we are thankful and
encouraged by the response.
All
funds received have been and are used for the upkeep of hardware
and the purchase of software and to pay provider and computer
services.
In 2003, ChickenBones: A Journal received traffic of 582,961 visitors, with over 5.183
million hits. There are over 1500 accessible text files and
15,000 image files. New files are added several times during
the week. Our website is one of the most dynamic and interactive
efforts on the Internet.
Information contained on this site is broad and
in depth, including topics in Religion & Politics ,
Education & History,
Music &
Musicians, lLiterature & Arts,
Books N
Review, Black Labor;
and pages,
The African World
and Inside
the Caribbean, and
more. We also freely promote the work of contemporary poets
and writers, published and unpublished.
In short, we are providing an important service
to students and others (at home and abroad) who have an interest
in African-American life and culture. These efforts need and
deserve your support. We hope that in 2004 we can raise at least
$3,000 so that emergencies and other expenses can be dealt with
expeditiously. Do not miss the opportunity to sustain a valiant
and worthy cause.
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A Report from the Editor (2003)
This November 2003 ChickenBones: A Journal
celebrates its 2nd Anniversary. We went
online Fall 200l. Though it has been a short period of time,
it has been a wonderful and phenomenal journey.
There has been a great corps of
writers and artists who have contributed their writings and work
to make ChickenBones one of the most extraordinary sites dedicated to the free, independent, and
noncommercial transmission of inaccessible information to the
broadest number of people. Presently, we have over 1500 text files
and over 15,000 image files that create one of the more
informative, attractive websites on the Internet. Moreover, we
have bridged a lot of gaps between writers and writers, writers
and artists, and writers and readers, and so on. We are pleased
with the service and sacrifice that all have made. But there is
still much to do.
The November 22 Benefit
"Poetry in the Rhythm of Life" was our first effort to
broaden the financial base to support ChickenBones: A Journal.
It became a necessity. Our online journal has grown in traffic
at a much faster rate than we anticipated. From January through
June 2003, we averaged over a 1000 visitors a day. There were
steady increases month by month and we began to receive warnings
of traffic overages from our ISP and in July 2003 we had over
38,000 visitors and over 460,000 hits. For the year at that time,
over 247,000 visitors and over 2.6 million hits. Presently (22
Oct.), we have had over 400,000 visitors and over 4 million hits.
The penalty for the overage for
July was over $100. Instead of paying the penalty we decided to go
from our Bronze plan to the ISP's Silver Plan, which provided us
2.5 gigs more of transfer. That suited us fine for August: we
ended the month with over 40,000 visitors and over 435,000 hits.
The September 2003 traffic of ChickenBones:
A Journal leapt forward by over a 1,000 visitors a day. It
seems many students learned about ChickenBones on their
return to school and they have found it a great resource and they
are coming back daily. For our website is a dynamic website;
materials are being added daily and there is always something
surprisingly new. But we also have visitors from over 75 countries
(all six inhabitable continents) a month who come to ChickenBones.
Persons in Canada, the UK, Australia, Japan, the Netherlands,
France, China are the most frequent visitors. But there also
visitors from South Africa and Zimbawe; Hong Kong and Brazil;
India and Israel.
In September we averaged over
2100 visitors per day and over 19,000 hits a day. Thus ending the
month with over 64,000 visitors and over 580,000 hits. There was
another overage and a penalty of $66. Our Silver Plan was not
sufficient to deal with the traffic. We expect the traffic to the
site for October to be similar to September. For October, we had over
75,000 visitors and over a half million hits and November will
replicate those figures.
In short, we need help from
friends, writers, and artists to help us in our efforts to sustain
ChickenBones: A Journal. We have need to go to the ISP's
Gold Plan. We need your help. And there is much to be done. Help
us to sustain our momentum and service.
Donations of any amount should be made out to ChickenBones: A
Journal. Please send your check or money order
to:
ChickenBones:
A Journal / 2005
Arabian Drive /
Finksburg, MD 21048
We look forward to our continued
cooperation and collaboration. As ever and always, Rudy
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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus
Created
By Charles C. Mann
I’m
a big fan of Charles Mann’s previous
book
1491:
New Revelations of the Americas Before
Columbus, in which he
provides a sweeping and provocative
examination of North and South America
prior to the arrival of Christopher
Columbus. It’s exhaustively researched
but so wonderfully written that it’s
anything but exhausting to read. With
his follow-up,
1493, Mann has taken it to a
new, truly global level. Building on the
groundbreaking work of Alfred Crosby
(author of
The Columbian Exchange and, I’m
proud to say, a fellow Nantucketer),
Mann has written nothing less than the
story of our world: how a planet of what
were once several autonomous continents
is quickly becoming a single,
“globalized” entity.
Mann not only talked to countless
scientists and researchers; he visited
the places he writes about, and as a
consequence, the book has a marvelously
wide-ranging yet personal feel as we
follow Mann from one far-flung corner of
the world to the next. And always, the
prose is masterful. In telling the
improbable story of how Spanish and
Chinese cultures collided in the
Philippines in the sixteenth century, he
takes us to the island of Mindoro whose
“southern coast consists of a number of
small bays, one next to another like
tooth marks in an apple.” We learn how
the spread of malaria, the potato,
tobacco, guano, rubber plants, and sugar
cane have disrupted and convulsed the
planet and will continue to do so until
we are finally living on one integrated
or at least close-to-integrated Earth.
Whether or not the human instigators of
all this remarkable change will survive
the process they helped to initiate more
than five hundred years ago remains,
Mann suggests in this monumental and
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The Persistence of the Color Line
Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency
By Randall Kennedy
Among the best things about
The Persistence of the Color Line
is watching Mr. Kennedy hash through the
positions about Mr. Obama staked out by
black commentators on the left and
right, from Stanley Crouch and Cornel
West to Juan Williams and Tavis Smiley.
He can be pointed. Noting the way Mr.
Smiley consistently “voiced skepticism
regarding whether blacks should back
Obama” . . .
The
finest chapter in
The Persistence of the Color Line
is so resonant, and so personal, it
could nearly be the basis for a book of
its own. That chapter is titled
“Reverend Wright and My Father:
Reflections on Blacks and Patriotism.”
Recalling some of the criticisms of
America’s past made by Mr. Obama’s
former pastor, Mr. Kennedy writes with
feeling about his own father, who put
each of his three of his children
through Princeton but who “never forgave
American society for its racist
mistreatment of him and those whom he
most loved.” His father distrusted
the police, who had frequently called
him “boy,” and rejected patriotism. Mr.
Kennedy’s father “relished Muhammad
Ali’s quip that the Vietcong had never
called him ‘nigger.’ ” The author places
his father, and Mr. Wright, in
sympathetic historical light. |
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The White Masters of the
World
From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
(Fletcher)
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Ancient African Nations
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The Death of Emmett Till by Bob Dylan
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The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
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Only a Pawn in Their Game
Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson Thanks America for
Slavery /
George Jackson /
Hurricane Carter
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The Journal of Negro History issues at Project Gutenberg
The
Haitian Declaration of Independence 1804
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January 1, 1804 -- The Founding of
Haiti
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