One year ago on Sunday Jane the Actuary opened its doors and I invited the world to witness my attempts at commentary on the news and to discuss it all with me.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve been thinking about how to mark the occasion. <\/p>\n
I have a draft post in which I tell my readers what I\u2019ve learned, and haven\u2019t learned, over the year, and how this project is going. \u00a0But it\u2019s a lousy post, too full of navel-gazing and whining about wanting more readers, so I think it\u2019ll stay in draft form indefinitely.<\/p>\n
And I considered taking a cue from the mommy-blogs that I used to read, and doing a giveaway. \u00a0Of course, the high-traffic mommy blogs get items from advertisers, for which they write a review and then give away one of to a reader, others give away their own product in their home businesses, and the low-traffic blogs give things away for the more pedestrian reason of generating traffic. \u00a0But that seemed a bit desperate. \u00a0(Unless you\u2019d like the Starbucks gift card I won for a guessing contest at work? \u00a0I\u2019m not a coffee drinker.)<\/p>\n
So instead I\u2019ll just ask this:<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re a regular reader, or semi-regular, or even just sporadically stop by, please do me the favor of saying hello in the comments. \u00a0Tell me how you landed here, give me some feedback, tell me what topics you\u2019re interested in and what other blogs\/news sites you follow, and tell me something about yourself. \u00a0I\u2019ll keep this post up on top for the weekend.<\/p>\n
And then we\u2019ll all settle in to watch Germany v. Argentina, and I\u2019ll let you know on Monday if I won the office pool or not. \u00a0(Small office, and my method was nothing more spectacular than \u201cpick the teams you have a vague impression of being the best\u201d but I was ahead as of Thursday.)<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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