I've added links to the five most recent comments in the right margin. This was prompted by an interesting comment on a post that's a month old. Without something like this no one would ever see it.
Of course, even with something like this, almost no one will ever see it…
Requests, suggestions, brickbats, on this or any other layout issues….in the comments please.
While I was at FSU, my interesting and charming host at FSU, Jim Rossi, asked if I couldn't have some way to send out an e-mail when I update the blog. This turns out to be slightly more complex than I expected, but I think I've got a method that should work. Use this link , or look in the right margin under “Automatic Discourse”. Personally, I am using a news aggregator to read blogs now, but not everyone is up for that.
Wow. A day I'm so buy I can't post, and traffic goes through the roof suddenly bringing me to over 10,000 unique visitors in less than two months! (The 'unique visitor' is counted on a daily basis, so anyone who visited fifteen times over seven days would be counted seven times.) I moved well over a gigabyte of data in the last 30 days, and that's with few graphics. Good thing my hosting contract allows me about ten times what I used.
These poll numbers do not add up. In the latest Marist poll 44%, say they’ll vote against Bush. Bush's strong fans, 38% in number, are ready to re-elect him now. “The remaining 18% are not committed either way.”
It follows that if the election were today, in order to win Bush would need to get two votes out of the undecided column for every one his opponent got: a big gap, albeit not unbridgable. (And it's early days anyway, and the Republicans are going to have 200 million dollars to make up the gap.)
But, despite the negative re-elect numbers, among those polled Bush's “approval rating” is 53%. These numbers are not mathematically inconsistent, but they don't make political sense.
Since the blog seems to be under attack by a comment spammer (of the idiot-political rather than commercial variety), I will be installing anti-spam patches. I apologize in advance for any temporary instability this causes.
Meanwhile, here's version 1.01of my comments policy:
Get linked to by Brad DeLong, watch traffic spike:
Which raises a question: is there some level of readership needed to justify the effort? I don't think I'm writing to myself. I don't expect a million readers. Somewhere, on the low end of that spectrum, is a happy steady state. Right now, I have no idea what it is, and suppose I won't be in a position to know until the novelty has worn off.
I suspect, though, that in the long run I care about who's reading even more than how many people click in. Judging from the email I'm getting, and the occasional linkage, that's going reasonably well for a startup.
Hits are not everything. Before I started posting my articles online, I wrote one called Still Naked After All These Words . It still gets many more hits than anything else I ever wrote on administrative law.
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