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Human Census started on June 24, 2007– here’s an introduction to the project.

The basic concept was having a site that focused exclusively on a daily question to find out what people think about various topics, and to see how many of the world’s 6 billion people we could reach.

30 days later, the project’s trial period ended, and I detailed the time, cost, and things learned. Here is a quick statistical look at the project:

Old Stats from www.humancensus.wordpress.com (June 24-July 16)

• Total Views: 1,483
• Best Day Ever: 134
• Posts: 57
• Comments: 185
• 10 Categories

Current Stats for www.humancensus.com (July 16-Oct. 16)

• Total Views: 4,198
• Best Day Ever:121
• Posts: 169 (-57 imported from the old site)
• Comments: 473 (-185 imported from the old site)
• 27 categories

Total Stats for The Human Census Project

• Total Views: 5,681
• Best Day Ever: 134
• Posts: 169
• Comments: 473 (an average ~3 comments per post)
• Categories: 27

Current Status on the Project

The first 30 days, we had a question every day, 7 days a week. After the initial trial period, we moved to Mon-Fri questions 5 days/week (so I could have weekends again!).

Since June 24th, we’ve only missed one day of a scheduled question. (I’m not sure anyone would know that except for me, but hey!)

It’s fun to look back and see 16.5 weeks (116 days!) of continuity, especially for a Hundred Dollar Business Project, which usually are deliberately very quick, intense, short-lived projects.

Where We’re Going

We will be hitting our first huge milestone of 100 questions asked & answered on October 30th of this month. It’s exciting! (You can find a list of questions we’ve asked so far or browse all the questions and comments individually.)

If you have any ideas for how we can commemorate that benchmark, please share!

As far as long-term goals, the project is scheduled to end June 24, 2008, one year from its start. That was a suggestion from one of the readers, that it be patterned after The Ze Frank Show’s deliberate 1-year only experiment.

In the meantime, we’ll continue to post questions! So if you’re in the neighborhood, feel free to drop by www.humancensus.com and catch today’s question.