belated April roundup

I realize this is a bit late for a roundup on the April stats, but I’m just finally getting my sea legs back after a hectic (and for me, quite sickly) week and a half. I still want to make sure I thank everyone who deserves to be thanked for their contributions to this site – even though I write the articles, without all of you (readers, commentators, bloggers who link to me or include me in their blogrolls) I would just be keeping a very fancy online journal!

You’ll also notice that I’ve added a few little doodads in the third column towards the bottom – StumbleUpon, twitter and del.icio.us “friend” buttons, as well as a poll. I’m trying to concentrate on those three social media sites, since I like them the most, so if you use them, add me as a friend or network or whatever and I will return the favor 99.99% of the time (the other .01% I might not – a good example is that if you twitter and 99 out of 100 twitters are “read my latest blog post” I might not). And complete the poll, if you like polls; they help me know where my writing should be headed.

Top Referring Sites

(the people who sent the most visitors over to brip blap)

• Million Dollar Journey
• The Digerati Life
• The Simple Dollar
• MSN Smart Spending
• Free Money Finance
• Lazy Man and Money
• Generation X Finance
• I’ve Paid For That Twice Already
• Moolanomy
• Millionaire Mommy Next Door

Top Commentators

(the people who make the comments even more fun to read than my posts!)

• Curmudgeon
• Mrs. Micah
• Solar Yard Lights
• Dividend Growth Investor
• Bubelah
• deepali
• Ron@TheWisdomJournal
• FFB
• SavingDiva
• Four Pillars

Most Visited Posts for March

• are American kids stupid about personal finance?
• the charity customer
• a quick and easy way to control spending
• 15 reasons why you might want to be a consultant
• brip blap getting zen things done

A quick note on the last post – on Leo’s site a commentator asked Leo if he felt that I was ripping him off, and Leo very graciously said he didn’t think so (since I did mention his site and e-book {affiliate link} – and I’m doing so again) and even if I was he didn’t mind.

Since he could have let the comment go without response, it was a nice move on his part. I’ll say again that there was no intention to ‘rip him off’, and I sure hope it didn’t come off that way to most people. Let’s face it, there aren’t many ‘new’ ideas in productivity (or personal finance). For my own personal productivity, I take some things from Zen Habits, some from GTD, some from my dad, some from my wife and even some from observing how kids do things. It’s all a process of reflection. But thanks again, Leo.

As always, I deeply appreciate everyone who reads, comments, subscribes, stumbles and even lurks! Especially over the last month, while I was busy preparing for the birth of my daughter, I really appreciated all the comments during times when I wasn’t able to respond. There are some great comments – I don’t publicize the comments feed as much as I ought but you can subscribe here. Honestly, the comments could often be a whole separate blog in and of themselves!

photo credit: a DELL