The SunBreak is Three Months Old!

The SunBreak opened its doors back in September. Since then, over 26,000 people have made 40,000 visits to The SunBreak, with over 80,000 page views served. Who's our typical reader? Quantcast says you're most likely an affluent, older man with a graduate degree and no kids at home, who may also be Asian. (Hello, Volvo and Subaru! You can start running ads in 3...2...) That's what we get for writing long. The kids, they won't scroll down that far.

As an online magazine, we have focused mainly on writing our own stories. We have spoken with the guys suing the Sonics, CEO Garrison Bliss of Seattle's innovative healthcare provider Qliance, King County Metro's Kevin Desmond, Redfin's Matt Goyer on iPhone real estate apps, author Derek Johnson about the 2000 Huskies, documentarian Jen Marlowe about Sudan, Jordin Kare about space elevators, weather forecaster and cold-caser Parella Lewis, Michael McCarthy about online health journalism, and researcher George Divoky about global warming and the black guillemot.

On the arts and culture beat, we had conversations with photographer Jenny Jimenez, filmmaker Melvin Peebles, ex-footballer and current one-man-shower Bo Eason, set designer Etta Lillienthal on working in theatre and film, jazz composer Andrew Boscardin, the Satori Group's Andrew Lazarow, Argentine choreographer Diana Szeinblum, Jason Hortin of Hubbard Street Dance, Reggie Watts and Tommy Smith, The Purrs, Mikeah Ernest Jennings on racial comfort zones, Paris Hurley, Norman Bell on subprime theatre, Greg Lundgren, Marissa Niederhauser, and singer-songwriters Kristen Ward and Ali Marcus.

We also went to the Elwha River, Forks, Montesano, Alaska, and (sort of) Iceland.

And now, for the stats geeks, 40 percent of our visits involved a Firefox browser versus 34 percent Internet Explorer. Almost twenty percent were Safari, and almost five percent were Chrome. But don't take it so hard, Microsoft: 65 percent of those visits were on a Windows machine, while 30 percent were Macs. (Over three percent were iPhone visits!) Cable, at 40 percent of visits, had a commanding lead over DSL, at twenty percent.

Here's to the next three months. Come back soon!