The new issue of the Spectrum journal is already arriving in subscribers' mailboxes. (See it there on the right. It looks pretty good, doesn't it? Wait 'til you read the inside!) I think that it is a very timely and information-rich issue and we at Spectrum would like to hear your thoughts on the ideas inside.

Thus, we are launching this space as an place for you to visit to share your reactions to the journal as well as read other folks' responses. Here's hoping for an interesting discussion.

Today, the Spectrum website marks its second birthday.

In two years, according to Google Analytics:

309,669 Absolute Unique Visitors

1,910,954 Pageviews

Yes, before the year it out, we will crest two million pages viewed!

The top ten countries, beyond the U.S., that send regular visitors:

1. U.K.
2. Canada
3. Australia
4. Mexico
5. Norway
6. Colombia
7. Germany
8. South Africa
9. Spain
10. Brazil

States:

1. California
2. Washington
3. Florida
4. Michigan
5. New York
6. Texas
7. Maryland
8. Ohio

Summer 2009 - Volume 37, Issue 3

This issue is more than fast food. Bonnie has prepared generous servings of a tasty meal along with a choice of desserts. As usual, the following diner’s guide reflects my personal sense of taste and flavor, but rest assured, you’ll enjoy the meal.

DOWN WITH BLOWVIATION by Charles Scriven

There is no substantive advantage to young-earth creationism. Simple faith in God will do.

I'll be brief here. I'm tired and I need some Sabbath rest.

It's been a busy week for me - I spent it in Chicago. While there I visited the Buckminster Fuller exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art.

Over the last thirty days, (according to Google Analytics) this site has received:

• 16,368 "absolute unique visitors,"
• 31,759 visits,
• and over 82,000 page views.

That puts us at about 80% growth in visitors, 116% growth in visits and 41% growth in pageviews from the same time last year.

Thank you for reading!

And yes, nothing makes us (and many of our readers) happier than seeing a new name in the "Comment" scroll.

Since we launched about 14 months ago our new Spectrum site has had:

1,032,651 Pageviews

371,576 Visits

171,328 Visitors

Of course, the visits/visitors number is high as it measures IP addresses, not actual noses. But still.

Here's a graph from Compete.com that measures daily attention over the past 90 days among three Adventist media properties that have made changes in the last year.

A ranking of the number of visits per city over the last year.

10 Sydney

9 Brooklyn

8 Los Angeles

7 Evans, Georgia (I wonder who lives here. : )

Continuing our Top 10 "end of the year" countdown, here are the top ten countries in terms of visits to Spectrum.

All total we have:

337,891 visits from 205 countries/territories

10 Argentina* 1,872

9 Germany 2,005

8 Chile 2,006 (that was close)

7 Brazil 2,106

6 Spain 2,413

5 Mexico 2,861

4 Australia 10,189

3 United Kingdom 11,423

2 Canada 11,976

1 United States 256,940

With all the Spanish speaking countries, kudos to Johnny and our Café Hispano team.

Wow, what an intense week. Less than one hundred hours to election day. Finally. And then there is a General Conference election to think about. . .

I'm ready for another vacation, and am so thankful for the Sabbath right now.

Did you know that this new site launched on Nov. 19? That means this new incarnation of Spectrum is almost a year old!

Come Thanksgiving Day, we've got some institutional things for which to be thankful.

Check out these stats. Thus far we've had:

• 135,980 Visitors
• 290,967 Visits
• 807,788 Pageviews