Sunday Paper - Wholesale Coffee Beans, Blogging in 2020, Adopt a Woman, Electoral Districts, Apple Media Bundle

News of the week.

Rocky Hill's local coffee retailer, Vitaliy Shakirov, has shifted his business focus from retail to wholesale. The new venture is called Rockaffe.

Choosing the right wholesale coffee supplier for your business, whether it is a coffee shop, as a complement to your restaurant, or as a business perk, is essential to meet business needs. What should you consider before you make a perfect cup of coffee for your business? Vitaliy Shakirov

Ben Werdmüller wrote a blog post about the best way to get started blogging in 2020.

In an attempt to mitigate gender discrimination in the board room California passed a law that amounts to gender discrimination. Shareholders are suing.

California state legislative districts are so large that it dilutes the electoral power of political minorities. Libertarian activist is part of a group that's trying to get federal courts to force the state to add more seats to the state legislature.

According to Bloomberg, Apple is planning to bundle Apple Music, Apple News, and Apple TV+. I am not an Apple News subscriber, but I subscribe to Apple Music, and I am currently on a free one year trial of Apple TV+. While there are only a few shows I find interesting, the quality of the content on Apple TV+ is quite good. Assuming Apple does offer music, news, and streaming bundle at a decent price point, say $25/month, I would sign up.

I want the blogs back

I WANT THE BLOGS BACK by Peter Molnar (Peter Molnar)

Years ago we sat down and constructed our “blogs”. We gave them a part of ourselves, to make it a reflection of ourselves, in our own style, our own language. It took time and it took effort.

The tagline for my 15-year-old blog, Island in the Net, has always had the words "... with inchoate ramblings on technology, photography, beer, and geekery.", so really nothing has changed for me. Long form articles, carefully constructed photo-essay and tech articles, link posts, Instagram type posts' I've done it all on this website.

Blog readership is dropping

My blog readership has been falling for several years. It was even lower in 2018. I am not sure if the cause is my gradual shift away from "how-to" style posts to more of a focus on photo blogging. Perhaps it's time to return to a weekly schedule of one opinion posts, one technical post and one photography post. Perhaps I can remove the beer check-ins.

I summarized the JetPack Annual Reports for Island in the Net from 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015. Automattic did not release a report for 2016 and 2017. Pity. However, I used information in my WordPress dashboard to get at some of the information.

Blog stats for 2011.

This blog was viewed about 96,000 times in 2011. In 2011, there were 13 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 69 posts. The busiest day of that year was October 13th with 531 views. The most popular post that day was Untitled.

This blog had 33,000 views in 2012. In 2012, there were 186 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 540 posts. The busiest day of that year was December 27th with 279 views. The most popular post that day was HDR photography with Raspberry Pi and gPhoto2.

This blog was viewed about 62,000 times in 2013. In 2013, there were 324 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 908 posts. The busiest day of that year was January 3rd with 929 views. The most popular post that day was HDR photography with Raspberry Pi and gPhoto2.

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This blog was viewed about 37,000 times in 2014. The busiest day of that year was December 18th with 3,325 views. The most popular post that day was HDR photography with Raspberry Pi and gPhoto2.

This blog was viewed about 22,000 times in 2015. The busiest day of that year was January 6th with 1,574 views. The most popular post that day was HDR photography with Raspberry Pi and gPhoto2.

This blog was viewed about 23,271 times in 2016.

This blog was viewed about 21,607 times in 2017.