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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
The Wall Street Journal is on to the not-so-well-kept secret of bloggers, which is that is that they tend to have some degree of obsessive-compulsive disorder. The ubiquity of the internet, laptops, and the like means that bloggers need never … Continue reading →
Last night I went to a meeting of the Boston bloggers. It’s really the New England bloggers, since not all of us live in Boston (I don’t, for example). We’ve gotten together a couple of times before and it’s always … Continue reading →