Category Archives: Blogosphere

Dwindling blogosphere?

Posted on July 16, 2009 | Comments Off on Dwindling blogosphere?

So it seems:

"According to a 2008 survey by Technorati, which runs a search engine for blogs, only 7.4 million out of the 133 million blogs the company tracks had been updated in the past 120 days. That translates to 95 percent of blogs being essentially abandoned, left to lie fallow on the Web, where they become public remnants of a dream — or at least an ambition — unfulfilled."

Via Dustbury, which is still going strong after beginning in, uh, ’96? Really?

UPDATE:  Then there’s this:

"Of the 12 million bloggers on the Internet, only about 13% post daily, according to the Pew Internet and American Life Project. Even fewer — 10% — spend 10 or more hours a week on their blogs."

Note that Pew’s total blogs (12 million) does not jibe with Technorati’s (133 million). Oops!

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Michael Jackson versus Jimmy Cagney

Posted on July 13, 2009 | Comments Off on Michael Jackson versus Jimmy Cagney

It’s the dancer Michael Jackson that I remember. That was years ago, before the plastic surgery and the scandals. He did and still reminds me of Jimmy Cagney, not because I’m old enough to have seen Cagney in person or his movies upon their release. I saw these two (in three clips) on television when I was a kid in the 1950s and the boob tube played lots of old black-n-white movies. What a dancer Cagney was.

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Lake Travis still falling

Posted on July 8, 2009 | Comments Off on Lake Travis still falling

The lake she is sinking like a stone, two feet lower than at the link there which was a week ago. I mean fifty-one percent of capacity? Whoa. On the other hand, we’ve been here before, just three years ago, in fact, and it’s not yet as low as it was in 2000. The important thing to remember about Texas, folks, is that, for us, drought is normal.

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MJ’s world funeral concert tour

Posted on July 6, 2009 | Comments Off on MJ’s world funeral concert tour

Here’s a funny that I had to read closely to realize that it was actually a joke. It seemed so real. 😉

(P.S. The ad at the bottom of it should be a joke, but, alas, it’s not.)

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Sarah, the “hate receptacle”

Posted on July 6, 2009 | Comments Off on Sarah, the “hate receptacle”

I spent almost all of Sunday reading the comments to this feminist’s thoughtful post on why Our Sarah–and her innocent children, for crying out loud–attract so much hatred from so-called feminist women. There were almost three hundred comments when I quit a while ago because my eyes hurt.

After Instapundit linked her, she even picked up some conservative and libertarian commenters (after comment No. 142 or so) and more than a few of them express feminist ideals, which I mostly share. But, as they say, we wouldn’t be accepted in the feminist club because we’re not Dem pro-choicers (well, I am pro-choice, albeit with reservations). Well worth your time.

Via Instapundit.

UPDATE:  Most amusing thing at the conservative blog Power Line Monday night. Their Beltway parrot, as one commenter put it, writes a sneering post about Sarah and more than two hundred commenters gang up on him. Haw.

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Times Wastes Too Fast

Posted on July 5, 2009 | Comments Off on Times Wastes Too Fast

A remarkable, very readable Web-centric piece on Thomas Jefferson, warts and all. His Aunt Judith, his father’s sister, was Mr. B’s seven greats grandmother.

Via In Search of Jefferson’s Moose.

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Sarah: Happy Fourth!

Posted on July 4, 2009 | Comments Off on Sarah: Happy Fourth!

From her FaceBook account today regarding her announcement Friday that she will be resigning:

"The response in the main stream media has been most predictable, ironic, and as always, detached from the lives of ordinary Americans who are sick of the ‘politics of personal destruction.’ How sad that Washington and the media will never understand; it’s about country."

Heh.

UPDATE:  I laugh at all the "wise ones" who contend that her political career is over, etc. My bet is: She’s going to become the campaigner who makes it possible for the Republicans to win back one or both houses of Congress, then use that IOU to take the nomination in 2012.  

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