I am in DC at the AALS “meat market” — interviewing loads of very smart and charming people who want to be law professors. Already, I would like to take a large carload home with me and set them up in offices on my floor, and this this is only the end of day one.
But I am exhausted. So no blog today, and I bet no blog tomorrow, either.
Please do not include naked URLs in the first few lines of your comments. (It is ok to use HTML links if you know how to do that.) Long URLs in the first 75 characters or so tend to mess up the formatting of this blog when viewed under IE.
I will be travelling a lot in the next two weeks and I will not be able to fix problems (or kill spam) as quickly as I usually do.
I've added an experimental comments feed suitable for the RSS blogreading tool of your choice. Comments recursively welcomed.
If this works I suppose I'll XML but I don't think there's an obvious way to make the comments feed do that, so the comments feed will lag somewhat.
Generally, I've been finding the blog is getting slower as the database grows. Some updates, and especially attempts to use MT-Blacklist to kill large amounts of spam, cause timeout errors when I exceed some limit set by my host…a limit they won't increase unless I get a box of my own, which would raise my costs tenfold. I gather this slowdown is a known MT 2.6.x behavior. For now I intend to live with it. In the fullness of time some sort of major upgrade or migration may be in order. In my copious spare time. Ha.
Thanks to the referrer script that runs at the bottom of the left column of this blog, I can discover that I get linked to by the most odd and interesting people.
Speaking of polls, something odd and interesting has happened to this thread on election polls and predictions — it's basically been hijacked and turned into an open forum by people with something to say.
I'm still trying to figure out how I feel about that.
One the plus side, it's no cost to me, interesting to read along, and nice that readers are forming a proto-virtual-community. Where's the harm?
On the minus side, there's reasons I never created a single open thread the way, say, Daily Kos routinely does. While I like comments very much, it's a 'personal blog', not one that tries to be all things to all people, and those aren't my topics anymore. Worse, the civility level is not always optimal, and I think I'm not doing a great job of policing it.
So, should I
A) Close comments there? (Unlikely)
B) Sit back and enjoy it? (Likely, but would require amending my comments policy to note exceptions to my request for vague relevance to topic)
C) Like B, but police a bit more.
D) Create an open thread once in a while to allow topic re-set and keep the size of the thing reasonable (Possible, but I'm strangely, perhaps irrationally, reluctant)
E) Other? (Please explain)
Having just read Billmon's lament that blogs are selling out, it was something of a shock to learn from an email correspondent just how low my market value seems to be (jpeg).
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