600 words (7 minutes reading time) by Lancing Farrell 

It is 8 years since Local Government Utopia started and this post looks back at what has happened.

A lot has been written on the blog covering a wide range of topics. People often suggest to me that the blog would make a good book. There are over 250,000 words in the posts so far. Enough for 25 books. Publishing a book is likely to be less effective than a blog. A non-fiction book is considered successful when 10,000 copies are sold – that’s only 10,000 readers! 

Plus, a blog makes reading cheap and easy.  

I have done some basic analysis of the most popular posts and where readers live in the world.