Bloganalysis.

I'll admit it; I'm a sucker for metagaming this entire blogging thing. The mechanisms by which blogs develop readership, grow, shrink, influence, live, die... I find it all really, really fascinating, which is why I always enjoy it when the Politboro Diktat does a post on the subject. Which is why I'm linking to Dean Esmay's and INDC's entries; they've got a couple of good bits in them which are well worth reading by the curious blogger*.

And I'm sure that the Commissar has nothing to worry about. Just as long as he avoids going through doors blindly, and all that.

Moe

*Well, that and the fact that this way I have an excuse to artfully refer to both our upcoming 6 month anniversary and our (no doubt temporary) cracking of Large Mammal status in the Ecosystem. Egotism, thy name is Moe Lane. Especially since it's my cobloggers that drive our traffic.

Comments

[Gary Farber]

That Large Mammal Thing is unsteady. I came in at around 110 when it started over a year ago, and have subsequently kept upping readership and links-to-me while dropping down to just above 200 due to the shameful admission of far more blogs, such as your pitiful, shameless, johnny-come-lately effort.

Lesson: only read established blogs that have been around for over two years. They're the only ones you can trust.

;-)

[Timmy the Wonder Dog]

Breaking News

Go over to Tacitus Moe has made an interesting post which Praktike (ABDF or whatever his name is here) doesn't want you to talk about.

[Gary Farber]

Y'know, call me wacky, but vague imprecations telling me to go scan an entire huge blog, because someone I don't know "doesn't want me to" (in their mind-reading opinion) doesn't fly very far, and makes me wonder about the intelligence, motivation, and character, of anyone who suggests otherwise.

If you're not bright enough, or don't care enough, to quote and permalink, don't bother me. (Speaking for no one posting to this blog than myself, of course.) If you don't care, why should I?

(Also, lack of punctuation always makes the writer look literate and wise.)

[Rivka]

My first response to this post was pure indignation. "What," I asked my Significant Otter, "Obsidian Wings is younger than Respectful of Otters, and they're a Large Mammal first? What kind of universe is this?"

Of course, now that I've leapfrogged ahead into Large Mammal status myself, I can afford to chuckle affably and say, "As if any of that stuff really mattered."