Longwinded
I don’t set out to write long posts. It just happens. I get an idea and start writing, and often think it will take only a couple of moments to wrap up a few succinct thoughts, and then…and then…it grows. … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Blogging and bloggers
Rules for the comments section
I’m back! I noticed that in my absence this rather short and recent post engendered quite the heated and verbose discussion in the comments section, proving that the number of comments isn’t proportional to the length of the post. I … Continue reading →
Spammer styles: feel the love
I’ve got various kinds of spam blockers on this blog. They don’t work perfectly. but if they didn’t work at all, I’d have hundreds of spam comments here a day. As it is, there are probably fifteen or so, which … Continue reading →
Predicting the blog clog: Kundera saw it all
There are an awful lot of blogs these days (and a lot of them, no doubt, are awful). Technorati tracks about 57 million blogs, with a little over half of them regarded as “active”—meaning that the bloggers post at least … Continue reading →
Comment on comments
WordPress tells me that so far I’ve written 1,266 posts, with 32,417 comments from readers. Whew. When I do the math, this means that the average number of comments for a single post here has been 25 and a fraction. … Continue reading →
A cool million
Well, it happened a day or two ago, without much fanfare. This blog has racked up a million hits. It’s just a figure, not all that important. Glenn Reynolds gets about that many hits a week, just to put it … Continue reading →
How the crowded blogosphere works
Richard Fernandez has a thought-provoking take on how the blogosphere works, including the various categories of Finders, Linkers, and Thinkers, and the roles they play. In his comment on that thread, blogger Tigerhawk discusses Fernandez’s contention that, originally, it was … Continue reading →
‘Twas the Blogger’s Night Before Christmas
‘TWAS THE BLOGGER’S NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS ‘Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the ”˜sphere Bloggers were glad to see Christmas draw near. Their PCs were turned off and all put away The bloggers were swearing to take off … Continue reading →
Taking my rightful place among bloggers on the left
I hereby join two other bloggers, Michelle Malkin and Tammy Bruce, in officially declaring myself to be a woman of the Left. Of the dominant left hand, that is. I’m not only a lefty, I’m very strongly left-handed, from an … Continue reading →
More fun with sitemeters: reading in Tehran
When I first started my blog one of the main attractions was to click on my sitemeter. It was astounding for me to see that anyone was reading here at all, and to watch the numbers climb was satisfying. There … Continue reading →
Anger makes strange bedfellows: trolls and jihadis
I’m back from DC and naturally have a backlog of things to do, the way it always is when one goes away. So I wasn’t online much today, and the troll commentary has managed to pile up on the previous … Continue reading →
Pajamas in Washington DC
I’ve been in DC since yesterday and busy, busy, busy, although one of the things I’ve not been busy with is writing and blogging. I should be returning to my regularly scheduled program of blogging shortly, but for now I’ll … Continue reading →