February 15, 2025

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    • A Year of Pontification (A State of the Blog Address)

    One year ago I signed up for the original B*S version of PoliBlog. In April I shifted to my own domain and migrated to Moveable Type.

    My thanks to everyone who has visited and especially those who come back on a regular basis (and to the regular commenters) I also want to thanks everyone who has been kind enough to permanently link to me.

    I will say--blogging is a blast, and is perhaps the perfect hobby for a professor (cuz everyone knows that profs like to pontificate).

    Some specific thanks:

  • James Joyner, of Outside the Beltway, who inspired me to give this blogging thing a whirl.

  • Scott Ott of ScrappleFace, for being the first big blog to link to me.

  • Megan McArdle for a kind mention back in the summer, and Stephen Green for placing PoliBlog on the "Top Shelf" (both of which clearly helped my traffic).

  • Cam Edwards for twice inviting onto his radio show as a result of stuff blogged here.

  • Again: my thanks to all who have linked to me.

    Below is shameless navel gazing, click on the extended entry at your own peril.

    First Year Milestones:

    *Registered my 100,000 hit on January 29, 2025.

    *I hosted the Carnival of the Vanities #70 on January 21, 2025 and had my first (and only, to date) InstaLanche.

    *I hit "Playful Primate status in the TTLB for the first time on January 11, 2025. I have devolved a few times since, but have been fairly consistently in the Primate category since. (I first noted the TTLB as an Insignificant Microbe on March 3, 2025). Indeed, today I registered my highest number of inbound links, and my second highest ranked ever.

    *Last month was my best to date:

    Posted by Steven Taylor at February 15, 2025 11:14 AM | TrackBack
    • Comments

    Congratulations, and thank you for your site. I've been following the Toast-O-Meter, It's been a very interesting analysis of the Primaries.

    Posted by: Rodney Dill at February 15, 2025 12:29 PM
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