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 →
Category Archives: Blogging and bloggers
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 →
Bloggers and vacations
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 →
Blog talk
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 →
The difference between trolling and disagreeing
I know I wrote that I wasn’t going to post any more threads about trolls, and that I would simply implement a solution instead. And that is my plan. But I found this to be so excellently put that I … Continue reading →
Losing your turns
What’s a pirouette? Here’s the Wikipedia defintion—and, as a former dancer, I can attest to its correctness: One of the most famous ballet movements; this is where the dancer spins around on demi-pointe or pointe on one leg. The other … Continue reading →
More on politics and friends
I want to spotlight this question that appeared in the comments section of my earlier thread on politics and friendship [some spelling corrections made here]: …if this is the state of your personal relationships, is the blog a chance to … Continue reading →