A Dozen Links To Start Your Week

There ought to be something for everyone in this batch.

• Newton Pens: Mission & Scholarship (fundraising with pens)
• Handmade Pens Made from Historical and Reclaimed Woods
• Ed Jelley: J. Herbin 1670: Bleu Ocean Fountain Pen Ink
• lady dandelion: a hazy shade of winter (I’m a sucker for b&w)
• Goodwriterspens’s Blog and Good Writer’s Pen Sales (lovely British pens)
• Pinks, Violet, and Purple Inks
• Write Here Pens: Pelikan Edelstein Amber ‘Ink of the Year 2013’
• Seth Godin: Those people (I mean really!)
• Ken Cavers Custom Pens: New Design – the ‘Shirt Pocket’ Fountain Pen
• The Telegraph: Lack of sleep ‘switches off’ genes (other things too)
• Lifehacker: How Facebook Is Using You to Annoy Your Friends (and How to Stop It)
• The Mary Sue: BBC Sherlock Season 3 Has Been Delayed Until 2014 (blame it on the hobbit)

A Bunch Of Links Including Your Favorites And My Lists

By number of page views, these posts were voted favorites for 2012:

• Field Notes Journals or Moleskine Cahiers
• The Rhodia Webnotebook vs Moleskine Journal Showdown
• Favorite Fountain Pens
• The Ink Blotter, A Dirty Little Secret
• Favorite Inks
• Handwriting Tutorials from Caliken
• The Kaweco Classic Sport, A Modern Pocket Pen
• Pelikan Edelstein Ink
• Favorite Stationery
• Favorite Brand Of Fountain Pen Ink – The Poll Results
• So What’s The Deal With Iron Gall Ink
• Big And Bold Namiki Falcon

Note that my favorite inks, fountain pens, stationery, and matches lists were updated today.

According to WordPress,

Crunchy numbers

19,000 people fit into the new Barclays Center to see Jay-Z perform. This blog was viewed about 160,000 times in 2012. If it were a concert at the Barclays Center, it would take about 8 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

In 2012, there were 119 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 506 posts.

The busiest day of the year was December 15th with 838 views. The most popular post that day was Best Fountain Pen Product You Don’t Own.

The top referring sites were

1. Google Reader
2. penaddict.com
3. inknouveau.com
4. blogs.com
5. twitter.com

Most active commenters were

• 1 BT Irwin 46 comments
• 2 justdaveyb 14 comments
• 3 kp 12 comments
• 4 Bruno Taut 8 comments

A huge thank you to all who visited, linked to, or commented at An Inkophile’s Blog. You are THE BEST!