This article says that, according to Technorati, there are now over 27 million blogs on the internet, with 2.7 million of them being actively updated at least once a week. And according to TTLB, this blog ranks in the top 1000 by the number of incoming links and in the top 500 by the number of hits per day. Pretty cool, if you ask me.
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And how many blogs do you read on a regular basis? I didn't read any up until a few months ago, and now I still can't handle more than four or five.
It is a measure of the quality of discourse you provide to your readers, commenters, and lurkers. Congrats Ed.
You have an excellent blog. You research is excellent and thorough. You do an excellent job and you have every right to be proud of yourself!
I read about 10 daily. Dispatches in always first on my list.
It is also the last. (By the time I read my tenth blog, I go back and see if this has been updated)
Wow, that's impressive! Top 100 out of 2.7 million, that's ... let's see ... ((carries the one ... ah, screw it)) .. REALLY GOOD! It's a tribute to the quality of the discourse, the frequency of postings, and the relevance of the ideas. Keep up the good work, Ed. Especially amazing when you figure this is all the output of one guy, unlike group blogs such as Kos, LGF, etc.
I have about 15 blogs I read every day, most multiple times per day. This one is definitely at the top of the list. What I like about Dispatches is its non-partisan take on things. Ed obviously has his passions and his political beliefs on issues, but I don't feel like I'm reading regurgitated talking points from the DNC or RNC. It's refreshing.
My must-read blogs are Pharyngula for science, Dispatches for science and politics (and bar-b-q and sports!), Comics Curmudgeon for my cartoon fix, WaiterRant for philosophical and lyrical musings on every day life, and Daily Kos and Atrios for left-wing rantings (a guilty pleasure, but a pleasure nonetheless).
Of those, Dispatches is (to me) clearly the best-argued (I reserve "best written" for WaiterRant, that guy's brought tears to my eyes a few times). I started following Ed when he was posting on "In the Agora" a year or so ago and haven't missed a day since.
I probably read less than 10 blogs every day. I almost always check Volokh and The Agitator (Radley Balko's blog) because I so often find topics there that make me want to post something of my own about it. I check In the Agora at least once a day. If you expand it to "at least once a week", I probably read about 15 or 20 at least that often.
Oh, but those are TTLB stats, not Technorati. Many liberal bloggers opted out of TTLB, and it counts only those who sign up. It's easy to be up high there. Mine is #301 right now, but 2550th or so in Technorati - a big difference. You can check your real rank in Technorati, if you search your own URL.
Dispatches is pretty good, but there was a long while I didn't read it, because it seemed every post was some extremely boring law issue. That seems to be over. It really takes a lot of content (usually) to make for a successful blog. My faves, in descending order:
1 tie: Panda's Thumb / boingboing
2 dispatches
3 washington monthly
4 pharyngula
5 chris mooney
6 bruce schneier
7 virginia postrel
and I have a few others, like the very infrequent Carl Zimmer, or the seldom interesting NoGodBlog, pumped in via RSS. Chris Mooney's also on RSS, because half his posts are about how he's not going to post for x number of days, because he'll be driving northwest on highway 33 through Possum Grape, Arkansas, or some other travel detail no one cares about.
I have this love-hate relationship with RSS - some times I use it a lot, and then read many blogs, other times I can't stand the format, and prefer to read the posts at the blogs, thus limiting the number of blogs I read.
I think it was coturnix who had a post at his blog about how he reads blogs dealing with specific subjects at different times. My readin habits are similar - I read a lot of feminists blogs one week, lot skeptic blogs a different week, blogs about politics, science etc. yet other weeks.
I think I tend to burn out on the subjects, and need a break from them. Some times those breaks have to be fairly long (as is the case with the autism/thimerosal debates, which I still can't face).
steve s wrote:
Well, it ebbs and flows. When there are big legal issues going on, like the confirmation hearings, I write more about that and less about science just because time is limited and that's what has my attention at the time. There will no doubt be times in the future where I'll go several days of posting primarily about con law. In some ways, I'm like a kitten whose attention is captivated by whatever shiny object is put in front of me, so if one shiny object bores you just wait till the next one comes along.