Six-Year Anniversary of TaxProf Blog

Yesterday (April 15) marked the 6-year anniversary of TaxProf Blog (and the 15-year anniversary of the TaxProf Email Discussion Group). I hope the blog has at least partially succeeded in its mission (announced in my very first post here) to provide both (1) permanent resources & links, and (2) daily news & information, of interest to law school tax professors and students, tax lawyers in private practice and government, accountants, and others in the tax community. The following chart shows the blog's dramatic across-the-board growth over these six years:

TaxProf Blog (4/15/04 – 4/15/10)
	Year 1	Year 2	Year 3	Year 4	Year 5	Year 6	Total
Visitors Total Per Day v. Prior Year	528,000 1,400 -	933,000 2,500 +76.7%	1,246,000 3,400 +33.5%	1,537,000 4,200 +23.4%	2,591,000 7,100 +68.6%	2,787,000 7,630 +7.6%	6,835,000
Page Views Total Per Day v. Prior Year	688,000 1,900 -	1,202,000 3,300 +74.7%	1,593,000 4,360 +32.5%	2,282,000 6,250 +43.3%	3,490,000 9,560 +52.9%	3,607,000 9,880 +3.4%	9,255,000

During my six-year run, I have:

• Made over 16,400 posts, received over 17,700 comments from readers and over 3,200 trackbacks from other blogs
• Become the most-visited law-focused blog edited by a single law professor
• Enjoyed support from our sponsors (Thomson-West, Foundation Press, and LexisNexis in our first year, LexisNexis in our second year, Thomson-Tax & Accounting, Thomson-West, and Foundation Press in our third, fourth, and fifth years, and Aspen in our sixth year)
• Published weekly rankings by SSRN downloads of the Top 5 Tax Papers
• Published rankings by SSRN downloads of the
  • Top 25 Tax Professors
  • Top 25 Tax Faculties
  • Top 15 Graduate Tax Faculties

I am especially delighted that our Law Professor Blogs Network has expanded to over 50 blogs:

• Adjunct Law Prof Blog (Mitchell Rubinstein (St. John's & NYLS))
• Administrative Law Prof Blog (Ted McClure (Phoenix), Kamina Pinder (John Marshall) & Lisa Tripp (John Marshall))
• ADR Prof Blog (Andrea Schneider (Marquette), Nancy Welsh (Dickinson), Michael Moffitt (Oregon) & Sarah Rudolph Cole (Ohio State))
• Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog (D. Daniel Sokol (Florida))
• Aviation Law Prof Blog (Brian Havel (DePaul) & Michael Jacobs (DePaul))
• Banking Law Prof Blog (Ann Graham (Texas Tech))
• BankruptcyProf Blog (M. Jonathan Hayes (University of West Los Angeles))
• Business Law Prof Blog (Eric Chaffee (Dayton), Scott Colesanti (Hofstra), Joshia Fershee (North Dakota) & Stephen Padfield (Akron) )  
• Chinese Law Prof Blog (Donald Clarke (George Washington))
• Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog (Robin Effron (Brooklyn), Cynthia Fountaine (Texas Wesleyan) & Adam Steinman (Cincinnati))
• Constitutional Law Prof Blog (Steven Schwinn (John Marshall) & Ruthann Robson (CUNY))
• ContractsProf Blog (Frank Snyder (Texas-Wesleyan))
• CrimProf Blog (Kevin Cole (San Diego))
• Elder Law Prof Blog (Carolyn Grose (William Mitchell) & Kim Dayton (William Mitchell))
• EvidenceProf Blog (Colin Miller (John Marshall-Chicago))
• Family Law Prof Blog (Andrea Carroll (LSU) & Margaret Ryznar)
• First Amendment Law Prof Blog (Kathleen Bergin (South Texas) & Josie Brown (South Carolina))
• Food Law Prof Blog (Donna Byrne (William Mitchell))
• Health Law Prof Blog (Katharine Van Tassel (Western New England))
• ImmigrationProf Blog (Kevin Johnson (UC-Davis), Bill Hing (UC-Davis), Leticia Saucedo (UNLV) & Enid Trucios-Haynes (Louisville))
• International Law Prof Blog (Mark Wojcik (John Marshall) & Cindy Galway Buys (Southern Illinois))
• Land Use Prof Blog (Will Cook (Charleston), Chad Emerson (Faulkner), Matthew Festa (South Texas), Ngai Pindell (UNLV) & Jamie Roskie (Georgia))
• Law Librarian Blog (Joe Hodnicki (Butler County Law Library) & Mark Giangrande (DePaul))
• Law School Academic Support Blog (Rebecca Flanagan (Vermont) & Amy Jarmon (Texas Tech))
• Law School Innovation (Douglas Berman (Ohio State), Anupam Chander (UC-Davis), Gene Koo (CALI) & Mark Osler (Baylor))
• Legal Profession Blog (Alan Childress (Tulane), Michael Frisch (Georgetown), William Henderson (Indiana) & Jeffrey Lipshaw (Suffolk))
• Legal Writing Prof Blog (Nancy Soonpaa (Texas Tech), Sue Liemer (Southern Illinois), Coleen Barger (Arkansas), Mark Wojcik (John Marshall) & James Levy (Nova))  
• M&A Law Prof Blog (Brian Quinn (Boston College))
• Mass Tort Litigation Blog (Byron Stier (Southwestern), Howard Erichson (Fordham), Alexandra Lafav (UConn) & Elizabeth Burch (Florida State))
• Media Law Prof Blog (Cristina Corcos (LSU))
• Native American Law Prof Blog (Timothy Pleasant (Concord) & Carolyn Drouin (Navajo Technical College))
• Nonprofit Law Prof Blog (David Brennen (Kentucky) & Darryll Jones (Stetson))
• PropertyProf Blog (D. Benjamin Barros (Widener))
• Reproductive Rightd Prof Blog (Caitlin Borgmann (CUNY))
• Securities Law Prof Blog (Barbara Black (Cincinnati))
• Sentencing Law and Policy (Douglas Berman (Ohio State))
• Sexual Orientation and the Law (Sara Benson (Illinois) & Steve Sanders (Mayer Brown, Chicago))
• TaxProf Blog (Paul Caron (Cincinnati))
• TortsProf Blog (William Childs (Western New England), Christopher Robinette (Widener) & Sheila Scheuerman (Charleston))
• White Collar Crime Prof Blog (Ellen Podgor (Stetson))
• Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog (Gerry Beyer (Texas Tech))
• Workplace Prof Blog (Richard Bales (NKU), Jeffrey Hirsch (Tennessee), Marcia McCormick (Cumberland) & Paul Secunda (Marquette))

Our current sponsor -- Aspen -- is supporting our efforts to expand the network into other areas of law.  Please email me and Joe Hodnicki if you would be interested in learning more about starting a blog as part of our network. We provide you with a turn-key operation: we will create your blog for you and walk you through the very simple mechanics of posting.  Aspen's sponsorship enables us to provide modest stipends to our editors. 

Thank you for joining us during these six years. I hope you will stick around for what I hope will be many years to come. Please use the comments to share your thoughts on the blog as well as how we can serve you better in the future.