Daniel B. Honigman's site

Allright, folks. In case you cared, DanielHonigman.com is now a Google PageRank 4 site.

What does this mean, exactly? Is my site starting to gain steam on the Web? Probably not. I’m starting to rank higher for several terms, like “tidbit of the day,” “cigar of the week” and others, but who knows, really?

Anyway, here are my April site stats:

1,193 unique visitors
1,422 visits
2,012 pageviews

I didn’t post too often in April, thanks to my new job, but there were a few good ones in there, like:

- Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” music video

- A bit about the Chicago taxi gas surcharge.

- And lastly, several Cigars of the Week

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A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about my February traffic stats.

March definitely topped February. DanielHonigman.com received:

1,013 unique visitors
1,422 visits
2,315 pageviews

Some of the posts that helped put me over the top were:

- My announcement that I had taken a new job with the Chicago Tribune.

- My Mike Royko = God post, which I wrote after I started reading One More Time: The Best of Mike Royko, a collection of his best columns.

- 10 things you didn’t know about new the New York governor, David A. Paterson. (At that time we also didn’t know that he used drugs, either!)

- My review of the CAO Vision Prana and Catalyst cigars.

- A quick post about a piece Todd Andrlik wrote on his Web site about me.

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February was another great month for DanielHonigman.com! In this short month, helped out by the extra day — thanks to the leap year — I was able to get some good stats. I got:

954 Unique Visitors
1,252 Visits
1,977 Page Views

That’s some good stuff! Some popular posts from February were:

- When a link to my page was deleted from Wikipedia’s entry on the Chicago 2016 Olympic bid.

- A video of Tribune Company CEO Sam Zell speaking to the Chicago Tribune staff.

- A bit on an old college buddy of mine, Jonathan Yedin.

- The catch: Eli Manning to David Tyree in Superbowl XLII.

- And, as usual, this month’s Cigar of the Week posts.

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Here’s Greg Verdino’s look back at trends that defined the marketing world in 2007.

Last month, my buddy Tim Spangler celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Max Headroom incident on Chicago television.

Martin Reed goes over some common mistakes people make when they build online communities.

Fellow Future of Chicago blogger David Armano talks about why Fox kicks butt when it comes to mobile content.

Fellow Medillian Matt Bigelow liveblogged the Search Engine Strategies conference held last week in Chicago.

How yummy do these look?

Jesse Nachtigal from CigarJack wrote about a recent cigar mishap. Poor little him.

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Hey guys. Yesterday, I found I was having problems with my Bad Behavior Wordpress plugin, and that it was giving me a 403 error message.

Just want to let you know that the problem was fixed this morning. I downloaded Bad Behavior version 2.0.11 and it was fixed. (If you’re having similar problems, you can download the update here.)

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Here are some highlights from around the blogosphere this week:

Mark shares his beer-chilling secrets.

Martin wonders if general interest forums can succeed on the Web.

Tim looks at the world’s most valuable domain names.

The Chicagoist blasts Chicago Sun-Times columnist Robert Novak for withholding important information until his book release.

In a bit of self-promotion, I reviewed Big City’s “The City Never Sleeps” album for HipHopDX, a well-known hip-hop site. (You can read it here and here.) Stay tuned for more reviews in the near future.

Oops.

Jeff ponders Microsoft’s relationship with the Live Earth concerts.

Here’s a great Chicago Tribune piece on Sadaharu Oh, including what he thinks of Barry Bonds.

Frequent Chicago Magazine contributor Jim Ylisela Jr. wrote up “Under the Radar,” a good piece on Yusef Jackson - yes, he’s one of the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s sons - and his experiences with Radar Magazine.

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This is the first time I’m posting a list of interesting blog posts I’ve read this week from my friends. Well, here goes:

1) Tim wrote up a list of things lazy bloggers can do to, well, at least not look so lazy. Maybe I should take notice…

2) For all of you single Chicagoans, GapersBlock contributor Ian Coburn wrote about how to catch a special someone at one of the city’s many summer hot spots.

3) Martin from over at Community Spark blogged about how important it is for blogs to have distinct personalities.

4) Gary Lee finally joined a link train!

5) Todd Andrlik posted an interesting map of the United States…influenced by world GDP statistics.

6) Pete Cashmore from Mashable ponders what Facebook would look like in 40 years.

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