Matt Frost offers insights into both blogging and Facebook: A good blogger lives in constructive fear of two things: writing for everyone, and writing for no one. Recognizing that your boss, your kids, or even your future self will be able to read your work long after you’ve written it should impose some temperance and [...]
Just came across this Jim Lindgren post at The Volokoh Conspiracy on Obama. The conclusion is rather fascinating and thought provoking: People should not confuse Obama’s personality with his political orientation: by personality, Obama is the most reasonable, thoughtful, moderate person on either national ticket. He is definitely NOT an ideologue. Yet by political orientation, [...]
Megan McArdle defines the term: This is a first class example of what I like to call “Supertwaddle”: thoroughgoing nonsense wrapped up in just enough technical knowledge to be more thoroughly, amusingly wrong than the ordinary twaddle you buy at your local drugstore or neighborhood bar. Sadly, it often sounds very convincing to people who [...]
Ross Douthat: And anyone who believes that McCain is running a uniquely dishonorable campaign for the presidency just doesn’t have enough historical perspective – or enough distance from their own passions – to comment sensibly on contemporary politics. Every successful politician and political movement has to master the art of below-the-belt, us-versus-them political engagement, because [...]
I will confess to not being involved in the whole online social networking thing. I don’t have a MySpace page, or twitter, or anything else. But today I did stumble upon a couple of book orientated social networking sites and decided to try them out. The first, is Shelfari: Based in Seattle, Shelfari introduces readers [...]
In reading various accounts and response to the contretemps surrounding Alan Wolfe’s essay on Russell Kirk, I recently came across an intelligent and thought provoking response by R.R. Reno at First Things. I found Reno’s discussion of ordered liberty and his comparing and contrasting the views of Hobbes and Kirk insightful: Leaving aside the snide [...]
It appears I have been tagged by my once-upon-a-time co-blogger Phil at Brandywine books with a meme: In which each player lists eight facts/habits about themselves, the rules of the game being posted at the beginning before those facts/habits are listed, eight people tagged at the end of the post, listing their names. The player [...]
On a day when you get a link from a prominent source, and are flooded with visitors, it might be a good time to post some content. But alas, I was busy yesterday and unable to do so. I hope a few of the couple thousand people who clicked through Monday come back for a [...]
What seems like billions of pixels have been spilled to debate the relative merit of, for lack of a better term, online book coverage. The battle lines seemed to have been drawn between the upstarts online and the elders of print (Despite the fact that the lines are not so clear). Various “experts” with haughty [...]
This blogs stats have dropped propitiously in the last six months or so. In October of last year the site had over 4500 visitors according to site meter. The next month dropped below 3500 and the past four months have all been under 2000. Part of the explanation for this was a spam attack which [...]