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Number of years Pensito Review has been publishing. Thanks to all our readers.

First, thanks to the nominators at the 2010 Florida Netroots Awards for including us in the list — we’re nominated for It is an honor to be nominated for Best National Blog, and Trish is nominated for Best Writer. It’s an honor to be nominated, and winning is even better, so please take a moment and vote for via the online ballot here: 2010 Florida Netroots Awards.

Pensito Review celebrated its fifth anniversary on January 28. Thanks to all our readers.

Be sure to check out Trish’s post about Walkscore.com from last night. I happened upon a similarly interesting site this morning, ZIPSkinny.com, which slices and dices demographic information based on ZIP codes.
According to the results for my ZIP Code in West Hollywood, 55.9 percent of my neighbors are categorized “never married,” but I doubt this [...]

This week Al Neuharth is celebrating USA Today’s quarter-century of turning trees into the intellectual lowest common denominator. It’s hard to believe that it was just 25 years ago that virtually overnight Americans went from being human beings with complex lives to being collective cyphers in brightly colored charts and graphs.
‘This is a lot [...]

And why, you might ask, would we at Pensito Review be partying on Aug. 8? To celebrate our founder’s birthday, of course! Happy birthday Jon! Love ya! Mean it!
Please add your own special birthday wishes for Jon in our comments section.

Not for sale: It has come to my attention that recently Microsoft Corp. sent Acer Ferrari laptop computers to about 90 bloggers to assist them in reviewing Microsoft’s new Vista operating system. As a result, some columnists criticized said bloggers for accepting a $2,200 gift from a company whose product they were then supposed to [...]

We can’t let January 2007 pass without noting that this is the second anniversary of publication for Pensito Review.
In the two years we have been publishing, the site has logged over 5 million page views, according to Webalizer software on our servers.
Thanks to all of you.

Humbled yet proud: Time magazine has named Pensito Review its Person of the Year, and we are happier than pigs in poop. Okay, technically the magazine didn’t name Pensito Review per se, but, as the Associated Press put it:
If you choose millions of people, you don’t have to justify it to anyone.
The annual honor [...]

We hate to brag, except when we’re discussing our readers. Thanks to you, October 2006 was the best month ever for us at Pensito Review. Last month, 209,075 “unique visitors” accessed this website, which breaks our previous monthly record of 199,000 readers in June. October’s visitors viewed 458,724 pages on the site — an [...]