Can you believe it's been a year?

February 15th 2007 was the first official day of MyClaySun.com. It was the first day we opened this site to you guys, and the first day of the re-designed paper.

We had about 1,200 people come here that first day, and about 6,000 hits within 24 hours.

Since then, we've piled on more than 2,000,000 page views, hundreds of thousands of visitors and almost 2,000 registered users. There have been 1,580 blogs written, which, divided by 365, comes out to over 4 new blogs every single day. I would give the number of comments, but the system doesn't count those, and there's no way I could hand-count each. I'm sure we'd all agree that there are thousands and thousands.

Our very first blog was by staff writer Mary Maraghy about joining Weight Watchers [0]. Our first non-staff blog was by AnitaSullivan, welcoming the new [0] My Clay Sun. Our first "core group" blog was posted by the infamous Smunsey - he was wondering about "that guy standing on the intersection of Kingsley and Blanding [0]"

His blog got several comments, and if you look closely, you'll see Lilylore's first comment, and it was just as righteously smart-alecky as ever .

Looking through the user list, it looks like Marsha is our "oldest" blogger. No, no, not that kind of oldest, perhaps "most veteran" is less likely to get me in trouble. Marsha has been a registered user for just over 1 year and 1 week.

Most of our more active bloggers joined not long after that. RichK, Lilyslore, Smunsey, Whitewolf, and Jimmaxie all joined within a few days of Marsha.

The most popular blog of all time....drumroll please.....

OneMann's "It's a Cultural Thing" [0]. It racked up over 1,600 page views, and had a lot of comments (I didn't count, but there are two pages of them)

On the Spottd side, there are over 20,000 user-submitted photos in over 600 galleries. Combined with the photos we upload from events around Clay County, there is an average of 83 news photos every day.

The most popular photo gallery ever was from the OPHS 2007 Prom [1], and uploaded by user erinluvsmusic. It's had over 35,000 page views. The most popular image this year on Spotted was this one from the Miss Clay High pageant:

It's been viewed 806 times.

And since I pointed out our most prolific bloggers, it wouldn't be fair to leave out our most prolific Spotted photographer, Maxie Gregory.

She has uploaded 155 photo galleries and - get ready for this - 4.306 photos. In 365 days, that comes out to almost 12 photos every day, and she's single-handedly responsible for 20% of all the photos uploaded to Spotted. In fact, she's been so instrumental to the success of our photo pages that we create a special section just for her a few months ago. Thanks Maxie!

Of course, Maxie's Spotted dominance in no way detracts from the incredible photography from other people, including Lynne Musselman, Johnna Duke and Debbi Goyette, all of whom helped get Spotted off the ground.

(one of my favorite Spotted photos, courtesy of Johnna Duke)

In addition to the blogs and photos, we've even spent some time working on videos. Mary Maraghy created an amazing video from Ridgeview Elementary

Thanks to everybody here, whether this is the first blog you've ever read on MCS.com, or if this is the 10th blog you've read today. We provided the venue, and you've provided the spectacle!

So what do you guys think? What are your memories?