It's now two years since I started this web log. Here is my first post. Originally it was just a page for me to join the discussion about Lott's fabricated survey, but the focus seems to have expanded beyond that.
To get an idea how much blog traffic has increaased, my first post got linked by Glenn Reynolds and several others commenting on the Lott affair. As a result I had almost 1000 visits after three days. Now I get almost that much traffic every day.
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This graph shows what two links from Daily Kos and one link from Instapundit in the span of two days can do for your blog traffic. For those of you who don't know, Daily Kos is a high-traffic politically liberal team-written blog, whereas Instapundit is a high-traffic politically conservative…
A blog is software.
Importantly: a blog is free software.
Everyone can use it in any way they want. If there are 100 million blogs out there, there are 100 million blogging styles and 100 million ideas what blogging "is". And anyone who dares tell others how to do it incurs the wrath of the other…
One of the bloggers quoted in Simon Owens's demographics post states flat-out that "I basically don't give a crap about the non-political blogosphere." I found this interesting, because I used to read almost exclusively political blogs, but my opinion has shifted to be almost exactly the opposite…
Here at SB, we use Google analytics for getting info about how many people are reading our blogs, and how they get here. I also have a SiteMeter monitor on GM/BM. One thing that I get a kick out of is taking a look at my hits, and seeing what kinds of interesting connections come up. Sometimes it'…
Considering the posts you get from the pro-gun crowd in your blog comments, you've definitely got their attention. They'd probably deny it but they are watching what you write. You're such a hit-hog, Tim...;-)
Keep up the good work, Tim.
Thanks for all the effort you've put into this, Tim.
Congrats on two years.
I appreciate your time and effort here, sir. Keep up the good work.D
My congrats as well, Tim. Keep it up--this Ph.D social scientist finds your site extremely valuable, and your careful analysis of data commendable.
An inspiration. An education. And entertaining to boot.
I was going to say you're national treasure but that's way too parochial. Your efforts here have been nothing short of amazing. So thanks.