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Plus, like, declining traffic and fewer commenters. Also what we in the biz call “tells.”
You should switch to Google Chrome.
Jeff,
I got laid off last week. PW is about the only bright spot in my day now. I don’t comment much, but I read you every day. Keep it up.
BTW, anyone know anyone who might need a beverage industry exec?
I’d blame deregulation. Bush. Michael Powell….. and thor.
As Matt Damon said in Good Will Hunting when describing why he’d pick the wrench over the belt…. “because fuck him that’s why”
Also kind of a general malaise. The cumulative effect of 8 years of conservative bashing as a high art form and 2 years of unchecked rahrahing for the unrefined ascendant. Lots of people are getting tired.
I don’t have as much time to comment as I used to, probably won’t for a while at least. Plus now I’m like 6 hours behind where I was when I was busily polluting the comments with my nonsense. Also I’m preparing myself for the coming socialisms by making a study of the large local homeless population. So I can be prepared.
I’m sure its all temporary. Like the polls getting even and stuff. Maybe I’ll take anozzer vicodin and comment later
Conspiracy. Damn Obamabots in the intertubes screwing with the polls, site meters, Google results, and suppressing the vote. Fight, Jeff. Fight. Take ’em to the mat like Tony.
Jeff G,
It’s a short term phenomenon, I think. And, as the subject matter gets deeper, for some folks, the ability to spin pithy comments off of the main thread subject matter gets more difficult…
By no means am I suggesting that you actively dumb down the content one iota; just tryin’ to offer an explanation. It must be the geeky engineer in me…
Also, folks may be busy near the middle of the week. I have seen threads grow to several hundred comments lately though. And, I see those threads being active late into the night; at least by east coast time…
Buck up, me Bucco! The traffic comes and goes I think, like the ebb and flow of the tides…
Keep up the good work, and consider what I said about submitting some stuff to NRO and/or AT; maybe they’ll pay you for your writing which is EASILY! of the same caliber as theirs. And, you could direct folks back here for more of your in-depth exposition…
It also may be harder for folks to hit the tip jar lately, owing to economic volatility.
Best Wishes…
Also, it Booooooosh and the eeeeeevil RethugliKKKans, I’m certain!
All will be rectified should O! ascend to office; at least according to him…
Also, some of us are behind on our housework.
Needs more tittayes!
Why is Hannity so popular? I’ve always agreed with most of what he said, and I actually do listen to him for an hour a day, after Rush is off 850 here in Denver.
But Hannity is kinda dumb sometimes and not too curious, an anti-Buckley if you will.
With Jeff, we can all enjoy a much closer to Buckley Buckley from Jeff than from Hannity.
Which makes us special and Jeff in possesion of great potential.
But it can’t last without a free business consultation from someone informed, which for Christ’s sake isn’t anyone reading this?
Anyone?
You?
I’ve been away, there’s a couple hits right there.
Like Walter says in The Big Lebowski:
God-DAMNIT!
Hard to tell what’s representative. Reading favorites consume time, in some cases message received. Writing requires something meaningful to say, or be thor.
Net: malaise re: blogs.
As a loyal sycophant, I’m still here. And I’m not sure where cleo is housed, but you have to be getting plenty of hits from a certain insane asylum located somewhere on the east coast.
Because the place is lousy with jooooooossssss. And no Armadillo. And no mention of pie in months.
We’re all getting our uniforms and boots ready. The Revolution is coming.
I will say this: I didn’t understand Jeff for seemingly always responding to dimwits who attacked him for a heterogeneity of “reasons,” and rarely responding to sycophants.
Perhaps it’s because I’m a dumbass, which I’ve proven to myself after looking at my drunk comments on this blog when I’ve been sober (or at least not imbibing libations and whatnot).
It’s happening again.
Right.
Fucking.
Now.
That racist poon post freaked out the squares.
Wait. There was racist poon?
And I missed it?
DAMMIT.
It’s true, easyliving, he rarely addresses his sycophants. Unless, the topic is booze. Specifically single malt scotch. But, as a sycophant, I am completely cool with that as I’m an idiot. An idiot with good taste when in single malt scotch. But, I’m getting edumacated, so everyting’s alright, oh yeah.
oh. Let’s just blame thor I think. He won’t mind terribly you think? I don’t think. I love this blog. I am completely buried lately in work and it won’t end and I have no news anymore cause NPR stopped doing news and the Associated Press is gay and teh rest is sucky or socialist or both. Except from you and Mr. Reynolds I don’t get much so I don’t feel super-informed. I think the dearth of real news is affecting a lot of people. Drudge even is having a hard time cause there’s only the one narrative permitted in any given news cycle. Also I hate Hot Air. That’s not really on-point but for real what a couple of wienie heads.
Is that how you spell wienie my firefox spell checker didn’t like it with an ei.
I was out with Bob and we had a little too much to drink so I crashed on his couch. Honest. You can call him if you want. He’ll tell you.
Have I told you lately how much I love you, baby? Damn, you look fine. I really missed you last night.
Jeff G,
Pablo’s tellin’ the truth, we were tow-ta-tee polluted last night; drinkin’ some righteous Balvene!
hf
As one who has consumed a gazillion franks, the correct term is weenie…
Best Wishes…
Darn it!
tow-ta-tee = tow-ta-lee = totally…
Best wishes…
It doesn’t help when a political blog is totally wrong when it comes to elections.
Fuck off, thor.
Though, you have to be feeling kind of good, since it looks like Michael Vick may get out of prison early in exchange to pleading guilty to state charges. That should fill that void in your life.
thank you
I’m sure that’s it, thor. Thanks for the support.
I once commented on this blog that the author of said blog could, in effect, out perform none other than the one and (evidently not) only O. Welles.
So, we all know now. Rabbit nonnsenss included.
Let me clear my throat.
Indeed then, clear.
Is thought dead sir?
Or, in other words, how hard will you rape W. Churchill’s victory?
You are letting it be rewritten becasuse you’re not William F. Buckley.
And no other woman or man will be, WFB as it were, however, you could do everyone a life changing- and indeed nothing less I should like to think- a destiny altering, conversation.
So, by Thor’s logic, dKos should be getting no traffic whatsoever in the State of Connecticut? And, come to think of it, should have vanished away entirely after November 2004?
Summertime and the livin’ is easy is now long gone in the rearview mirror. Halloween and then the gales of November come early with the turkey and stuffing. Christmas time is here so Happy New Year.
Seriously, summer play time is gone and winter and the holiday seasons are soon upon us. Figure traffic will go up come January 2nd after the hangovers cease. When snowbound the computer gets much use.
Sex used to be popular too in the winter, so I hear.
Don’t despair,sir, This is the 2nd comment in ONE year for me, a personal best.And it’s because of YOU.
So there’s that.
The comment threads have been shorter since nishi’s Blackberry fell out of her pocket and onto the middle rail of the subway. The random electrical firings write better comments than she ever did, and it’s kinda hard to start a 300-comment flame war when the word “cudlip” isn’t being used.
I suspect a good many of us are out closing business and getting out the conservative vote. Mucho trabajo and all you know – your words continue to be much appreciated kind sir…
I’ve decided it’s just not a priority, so I’m never “behind”. RTO may decide otherwise before too long. the sewer backing up helped us get a little more motivated. and we may be having Christmas at our house, so that will also motivate us.
anyhoo, I’m still here, this site is on the “must keep up with daily” list of two or three. but my brain is fried lately, so I trend towards the silly.
also, you know what would help, Jeff?
KITTEHS!!!!
;D
1. Jeff: you’re a shiny shiny blogging machine. Fear not.
2.
I blame nishi – frist!!!11!
Thor second
Miss the guest posters – not my call – pub’s not the same
Hey, if I can try to keep up on PW from Iraq….
I wouldn’t say anything harsh about your own blog Jeff – you get more traffic in a few months than most of us have had since say, May of 2005 when we started our own rather small projects.
The bulk of the intelligent comments are coming from the smartest 5% of commenters.
Look, I’m not saying your success should be punished. I’m just saying give some of your wisdom to the people behind you so they can be funny and smart too. Don’t you agree that when we spread the braininess around it’s good? Huh? Don’tcha?
Then we’d all be smart. That.would.be.awesome.
Well there’s your problem. If trolls have to be at least 2 Sigma then other commenters have to be even higher. That’s a real niche market.
Jeff, You’re declining traffic has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that you walked away from your blog for a year. It’s the whole SYSTEM! Not to worry, you got some ‘hit’ credits comin’ to you from the new administration. You earned them, after all. Well, you didn’t ‘xactly earn them, but you got them coming. Well, not so much got them coming, but you get them anyway. ‘Cause that’s how we think now in post-America.
I’ve basically concentrated ALL my blog reading to PW. Occasionally I check other blogs, but not with any regularity.
Occasionally I check other blogs, but not with any regularity.
Have a bowl of All Bran, or Fiber One before blogging Carin. And if that doesn’t work, a fiber supplement may be the ticket. Good luck!
I’m the same way, Carin.
My business is way up.
Not the soup-can or cardboard box sort of business either.
But, my time is precious, and I spend much of the free part of it here.
If that matters at all.
Declining traffic?
I keep my own blog in a crumbling masonry tower that’s attached to my ’50’s era tract house by a rickety stone staircase.
It lives up there, strapped to its table, silent, pale, and smelling slightly of something emphatically not elderberries.
I leave it plugged in when the thunderstorms come. It takes but a moment to raise the lightning rod, and watching the blog twitch to the random discharges makes me smile; maybe if the damn thing was alive, it might move JUST LIKE THIS. A hah… ahhhhHaH. AHHHAAAHHHHHAAAHHHHAAAHHHHHAAAA!
Sorry. Did I say something?
Cleo you should post that under “Sure signs you are not talking about the subject matter #142”.
Do you think the world began this election cycle?
Did you eat paint chips as a child?
Oh, Cleo.
Dig it — the best thing that can happen to this site is for Obama to win and the GOP (of whom I am no great fan) loses seats.
You think the left heckled the last 8 years?
You ain’t seen nothing yet.
And one of my first gestures will be to start deleting your comments. So you get a feel for what it’s like for us to try posting reasoned responses on lefty sites.
Not that your responses are ever reasoned. But you get the idea.
ha ha, Jeff, I would delete/edit its comments at random. Lord knows, cleo already thinks you’re doing that. hilarity ensues.
“I would expect no less from those of your character………….”
What idiot taught you the political is the personal?
“You are the Legend you designed…………………….”
You are the mirror image of the characiture you designed.
I see that SemenliKKKer got into the hallucinogens early today.
I love how it does not recognize the irony that all of the Leftist sites are severely moderated.
Lefterated, more like.
Yea I posted a single comment on one of those LEED sustainable design sites mentioning that the temperature has been decreasing since 1998 and the whole thread went batshit crazy, called me racist and my comment was eventually deleted.
Oh, the irony of someone who wants to reinstitute slavery whining because his comments might get deleted!
That is what you get for oppossing the narrative Dash, a big fat delete. Hey it worked for Stalin.
I’d comment more often, but it’s so hard to come up with denounceworthy diatribe nowadays. The bar’s just so high…
From time to time, I have attempted to comment at manbearpig, Kos, Sadly morons, and the rest of their ilk. Even when I just kind of disagreed with them, it wound up getting banned, or in mahahahahahaha’s case, they just close the comments.
FWIW – timmah has resumed stalking Pablo and I at Patterico’s.
“Not that your responses are ever reasoned. But you get the idea.”
Well, in the fever swamp that loon has for a mind, they may “seem” reasoned. I usually don’t mind lunatics, but hate filled ones like semantic should be not only shunned, but maybe beat around a little.
Jeff,
As a long-time reader, and occasional commenter/financial contributor, I just want to say that I visit your site daily and would miss blog immensely. Your reasoned, articulate destruction of leftard arguments is a bright addition to my day.
That said, I first began reading your blog during the era of Martha Stewart Prison Diary and Anna Nichole Smith parodies, sandwiched around the aforementioned intellectual content. That mix of serious social & political insight, whimsy and laugh-out-loud funny postings completely hooked me.
Speaking just for myself, maybe adding back some of the lighter, less-strident touches would be helpful in re-gaining some of the lost traffic.
That said, don’t ever stop presenting your outstanding serious political analysis and commentary.
Regards,
PVRWC
timmah is stalking Pablo? I thought I’d made it clear that Pablo is MINE.
But when thor is completely and utterly wrong about the consequences of being wrong? What then? Wrong-squared?
Look! My character was impugned by someone presuming to enjoy my bandwidth, and …. I made it disappear!
Wow. This progressive shit is NICE!
Cleo, IOW, you got deleted for being an incomprehensible dick. NOT because you made some kind of salient point, because you have never made a salient point. Just thought I’d clear that up to the now lurking loon.
MissKKKleo got banned, or just had a comment deleted?
I’m not sure, but probably just had its comment deleted. Like datadouche, it’ll probably be back with more incomprehensible spew. I have a funny feeling, both of them are very much accustomed to being somewhere they are not wanted or welcomed. It’s the delusions.
I read it, Jeff! I’m just busy and sick. Sometimes I think of a comment but despair in the fingeryness of the keyboard required to put it up.
Can’t that involuntary blocking of thor and Cleo I accidentally had going on come back to me?
“I have a right to my opinion!”
“Yes, you do. You also have a right to poke yourself in the eye with a sharp stick, if you want to. Go ahead, I won’t stop you. But I’m under no requirement to pay attention to your idiocy. Or to get you a medic, for that matter.”
Could it be utter and complete burnout of the reading populace now that the end is near? I mean the end of the election, not the end of the world–though that will come soon enough if the drooling, calf-eyed, studiously incurious clowns who actually pay taxes in this country don’t wake fucking up and get over their Obama infatuation post-haste. I mean, school-girl crushes are so undignified–especially in the white, middle-aged, male-dominated media. And I’m a former school girl, so I can say with absolute authority that those fuckers are gonna be *so* embarrassed when they realize what happened to them in the last year. Since there’s nothing the talking heads enjoy more than tearing down what they have built up, it will be important to stake out the best seats on anti-Obamabot moral high ground early on. Because it’s going to get awful crowded when the dam waters burst and the American public realizes the Emperor is, in fact, naked. Let me enjoy the warmth of that thought for just a moment.
Yeah, I’m thinking familiarity with politics has started to breed contempt in this here independent. I’m ready to paste stamps over the vital portions of my anatomy and air-mail myself to Brazil or something. At least there the socialists actually *belong* to the Socialist Party instead of masquerading as moderates with air support provided by the mainstream media.
But I digress. Your blog–only recently entered into my faves (about an hour after I discovered it)–it is one of my first stops in the day. Usually good for a belly laugh (often from comments) and/or a “hrmmm, I never thought about it that way” head scratch. Always good for those of us with curiosity levels higher than that possessed by algae and Afghan Hounds. (Pardon me if I offended any algae lovers.)
So, um, yeah. Don’t. Go. If a voice of dissenting reason was important before November, it will be even more so after. Whatever happens. Because it’s messed up in this world, and there’s work to be done. Posts to write, trolls to pillory, politicians to deconstruct, etc.