Hi all readers of this post!

Unfortunately, despite me loving wordpress, I do not intend to use wordpress.com to host my blogs.

I host a lot of the blogs on my personal servers, and that of my favourite hosting provider.

I do however have an account with wordpress.com because it provides me with an API Key.

an API key allows me to collect information about the users of my site, without putting any extra strain on my servers – all this work is done via wordpress.com

If you like the idea of this, and host your own wordpress blogging platforms check out;

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stats/