Tag: bloggery

As alert readers will notice, the post below isn’t by me, but by my very smart friend Suresh, who’s well-known to many readers of this blog. Hopefully, he’ll be a regular contributor here in the future. But as they say on Wall Street, never predict anything, especially the future.

A revised version of my stuff on the dollar and trade is now up at the Roosevelt Institute’s blog, New Deal 2.0.

People are liable to actually read it now. Let’s hope I didn’t get anything too egregiously wrong.

In a fit of internet narcissism, I recently installed Google Analytics. Turns out this blog gets about 25 visitors a day, which is at least 20 more than I would have guessed. At least half come from Crooked Timber, presumably clicking on my “Lemuel Pitkin” link. So evidently, if I want more people to read this stuff (do I?), I need to find more blogs to comment on. But which?

I used to be a regular at Lawyers Guns and Money, but I can’t deal with Charli Carpenter. Apostropher is dead. The Poorman might as well be dead. Three Quarks Daily is ok but no one comments there. (Why?) Unfogged is too big a commitment. So is LBO-Talk (rocking it old-school mailing-list style), altho I’m tempted. Commenting on obscure blogs that no one reads is a mitzvah but, well, no one reads them. How about the heterodox econ blogs? Real World Economics Review? oh, but there are so many cranks. Angry Bear? Bruce Webb is good, but the rest of them… DeLong? I could comment on DeLong, but I’d get very angry. EconoSpeak? I like EconoSpeak, I was reading it back when it was MaxSpeak. (I got the original email announcing the creation of MaxSpeak, yo.) But it doesn’t feel like a community there.

It’s a mystery why there are so few left-of-liberal blogs. (It’s because the leftists are all too busy doing serious organizing work. Ha.)

Got to start a new group blog, clearly. Any of you 25 interested?