Last month I didn’t write one of these pieces, so I apologize for keeping everyone in the dark; I know how anxious everyone must be to hear about the fascinating goings-on here at Trans-Pacific Radio. So here goes:

First I’ll go through February, and at the end go through what’s in store for March. So…February treated us pretty well.

The Stats:

• Daily traffic to TPR increased 48% against January.
• We are now moving an average of well over one gigabyte of data to listeners per day, after brushing close with this line in the past two months.
• Our Alexa ranking moved from 2,270,762 on February 1st to 707,565 on March 1st.
• Our Technorati ranking moved from 151,000 on February 1st to 75,050 on March 1st.

The Releases:

We put out ten audio releases in February, nine with original content. Here were the top five:

1. Alex’s interview with the Japanese Embassy of Canada
2. TPR News for February 27
3. TPR News for February 1
4. Garrett’s editorial on Minister Yanagisawa
5. Seijigiri #17

Top Search Terms:

transpacificradio
bullying in japan
mike honda comfort women
trans pacific radio
bullying suicide japan
japan bullying
trans-pacific radio
comfort women
japan news podcast
rape of nanking

Observations:

1. Google accounts for well over 90% of search traffic
2. Our RSS feeds were down from about 2/1-2/6. Releases during that time suffered accordingly.
3. We lost about 12 hours of server logs when I used my backup server while re-installing the OS on my main server. The missing data has been inserted as a lowballed estimate.
4. Shasetsu and TPR News exploded in terms of listenership.
5. Japundit was the blog providing the highest number of inbound links.

The Future:

As of today, Chris Pellegrini joins us as a contributor. You may remember him from his rendition of “The Baker’s Dozen: A Saint Nicholas Tale” as part of TPR’s Festival of Christmas Tales. We’d like to welcome Chris and encourage everyone to listen to his pieces, and give him a relatively hard time in the comments section, at least for the first few weeks…

On Sunday, March 4th, Garrett and Ken will be sitting down to do an interview with Debito Arudo. This will be a Seijigiri release, though no release date has been set. Depending on how well the audio engineering goes, you’ll hopefully be able to listen to it a week from now.

TPR Spotlight and the Business of Japan podcasts are still officially ‘in the pipeline.’

Thank you to everyone for reading, listening, commenting and engaging us. Recently, quite a bit of comments have been posted discussing the ‘blog community’ in Japan, and that’s starting to generate some ideas for another project. Stay tuned…