Movin' On

Open Durham is launched, after much work, and I hope folks like it. All of the content (with the exception of some late-breaking comments) on Endangered Durham is present and expanded on Open Durham. For instance, where an old Endangered Durham post might be "100 Block of Morgan St.," all of those posts have been subdivided into individual buildings on Open Durham. Open Durham already contains a significantly larger inventory of buildings and places than Endangered Durham does.

At this time, I don't plan to write additional posts on Endangered Durham. I may cross-post some items from Open Durham to help with the transition over, but I can't put my energy in both places.

This content isn't going anywhere, unless Google decides to do something with it (one reason I chose to do a new site - given how much work I've put into this, I don't want the content at the whim of someone's service agreement or their decision to kill a service.) Since comments are such a wonderful part of this, I don't want to turn them off, but if you see this before commenting, please navigate to the appropriate post on Open Durham and leave your comment there instead. Given comment spam, etc., it's too hard to manage both. I'll try to manually repost as many as I can, but I'm eventually going to have to give up on that.

So ED's stats as of 10/19/11 - started July 31, 2006:

1,305,638 hits
726,563 unique visitors
1577 posts
7094 photos
7641 comments
2762 snarky comments (which I refer to as "witty jabs") by GK
350 snarky comments by Sven, before he went back to an unspecified Scandinavian country.
1383 snarky comments by Anonymous

Most viewed pages (other than home page) :
Blackwell's Bull Durham / American Tobacco: 11,063 pageviews
Golden Belt: 4094 pageviews
Lakewood Amusement park: 3949 pageviews
Union Station: 2928 pageviews
Watts/McPherson Hospitals: 2888
Maplewood Cemetery: 2648
The Medical Arts building: 2629

(had to end on Bill Fields)

Sven / GK / Gary