Reflections and Meditations
8 November 2005
Well, Technorati has finally gotten around to fixing whatever problem resulted in my blog's remaining fixed at #329,857 for a month...and now I've fallen back to nearly 400k. No big deal, but man was I hoping to move upward for a while. Anyone care to link to me? Please?
On another note, I have finally decided to turn on Blogger's "word verification" feature for comments. Not that I get many, but it's simply depressing to see that I have a comment, only to find an ad for Viagra or mortgage refinancing. So sorry in advance.
14 October 2005
Over the past couple of days I've received somewhere in the range of 90 hits--all related to my posting a link to the Unicef Smurf-bombing video. This even surpasses the flurry of interest that my post about the Huffington Post generated, and far more than what I expected for my post on porn star Mary Carey. The average web reader is, I find, difficult to predict. But I'll take what I can get.
6 October 2005
Feeling the flow again after a period of relative inactivity. And it's nice to feel like I'm not sliding downhill: Technorati as me at #329,857 out of their 19 million tracked blogs, so that's not too bad. I'll do a little dance if I ever get into the to 100k.
15 September 2005
Man, gone almost a month thanks to a catastrophic network collapse here. It feels...weird, but the worst part is that it threw me off my stride. I've been back up for a few days, but it is proving to be difficult getting back into the posting habit. I think it's because of the long, involved writeups that have been developing in my head, and the fear of putting them down in an incomplete form. So instead I think I'll post 'light' for a bit and see if that can jump-start my brain.
27 July 2005
For some weeks, I've been checkind in with Technorati to see where my blog stands. They have a rather obscure "rank" measurement which, until recently, has told me that my blog was something like the 750,000th most popular blog on the internet. Suffice it to say that this was hardly an inspiring number, especially as the number grew larger by a factor of several thousand each day. Yet today I checked it and found that my Technorati rank was in fact now listed as the 428,541st most popular, having been noticed and linked to by a couple of other sites. It is little, very little; but it is something.
17 June 2005
I've been at this for the better part of three months now (at least in its current incarnation, and I must admit to a bit of malaise. I am fulfilling the primary purpose--letting the hot air out of my brain--and even making strides toward the secondary purpose of using the medium as a scratch-pad to formulate and focus policy points from the hazier section of my brain. You may believe something; but when you finally get down to putting it into words, it either stands up or collapses. This, anyway, has been my experience.
But the malaise seems to grow from the fact that I am toiling in complete obscurity, basically talking to myself. I understand that this is the way of things, and even that my efforts here may in fact contribute to my debating skills elsewhere, but don't we all yearn for a little pat on the back, or perhaps even a slap in the face?
I had one big moment, when I put up a post about The Huffington Post just as its launch was creating a stir, but since then the counter has been silent. I even used the occasion of porn star Mary Carey's visit to a GOP fundraiser as an excuse to experiment with a post containing the words "porn star," and still nothing.
Oh well, at this point I'm just whining. I'll keep at it (I do take some pride in cruising through Blogger and seeing how many wrecked and abandoned blogs litter the shoulder of the information superhighway--I bring life!), and I'll even try to stick to my purposes. And if you, hypothetical reader, want to stay or go, that's your own business. Most of what I write fails to see the light of day, and perhaps I need to get used to the idea that Log and Line won't either.
Well, Technorati has finally gotten around to fixing whatever problem resulted in my blog's remaining fixed at #329,857 for a month...and now I've fallen back to nearly 400k. No big deal, but man was I hoping to move upward for a while. Anyone care to link to me? Please?
On another note, I have finally decided to turn on Blogger's "word verification" feature for comments. Not that I get many, but it's simply depressing to see that I have a comment, only to find an ad for Viagra or mortgage refinancing. So sorry in advance.
14 October 2005
Over the past couple of days I've received somewhere in the range of 90 hits--all related to my posting a link to the Unicef Smurf-bombing video. This even surpasses the flurry of interest that my post about the Huffington Post generated, and far more than what I expected for my post on porn star Mary Carey. The average web reader is, I find, difficult to predict. But I'll take what I can get.
6 October 2005
Feeling the flow again after a period of relative inactivity. And it's nice to feel like I'm not sliding downhill: Technorati as me at #329,857 out of their 19 million tracked blogs, so that's not too bad. I'll do a little dance if I ever get into the to 100k.
15 September 2005
Man, gone almost a month thanks to a catastrophic network collapse here. It feels...weird, but the worst part is that it threw me off my stride. I've been back up for a few days, but it is proving to be difficult getting back into the posting habit. I think it's because of the long, involved writeups that have been developing in my head, and the fear of putting them down in an incomplete form. So instead I think I'll post 'light' for a bit and see if that can jump-start my brain.
27 July 2005
For some weeks, I've been checkind in with Technorati to see where my blog stands. They have a rather obscure "rank" measurement which, until recently, has told me that my blog was something like the 750,000th most popular blog on the internet. Suffice it to say that this was hardly an inspiring number, especially as the number grew larger by a factor of several thousand each day. Yet today I checked it and found that my Technorati rank was in fact now listed as the 428,541st most popular, having been noticed and linked to by a couple of other sites. It is little, very little; but it is something.
17 June 2005
I've been at this for the better part of three months now (at least in its current incarnation, and I must admit to a bit of malaise. I am fulfilling the primary purpose--letting the hot air out of my brain--and even making strides toward the secondary purpose of using the medium as a scratch-pad to formulate and focus policy points from the hazier section of my brain. You may believe something; but when you finally get down to putting it into words, it either stands up or collapses. This, anyway, has been my experience.
But the malaise seems to grow from the fact that I am toiling in complete obscurity, basically talking to myself. I understand that this is the way of things, and even that my efforts here may in fact contribute to my debating skills elsewhere, but don't we all yearn for a little pat on the back, or perhaps even a slap in the face?
I had one big moment, when I put up a post about The Huffington Post just as its launch was creating a stir, but since then the counter has been silent. I even used the occasion of porn star Mary Carey's visit to a GOP fundraiser as an excuse to experiment with a post containing the words "porn star," and still nothing.
Oh well, at this point I'm just whining. I'll keep at it (I do take some pride in cruising through Blogger and seeing how many wrecked and abandoned blogs litter the shoulder of the information superhighway--I bring life!), and I'll even try to stick to my purposes. And if you, hypothetical reader, want to stay or go, that's your own business. Most of what I write fails to see the light of day, and perhaps I need to get used to the idea that Log and Line won't either.
posted by Jeff at 9:06 AM
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