MaxSpeak, the web's premier Barbie blogger (Max also runs a fine patter on fiscal policy) explains why De Spectaculis doesn't count as a blog:
"For better or worse, InstaPundit has defined the form for blogging: an unending stream of short, punchy, provocative items containing links. . . .Some bloggers are writing essays or posts that could be columns. I have a high regard for these too, but they do not typify the essence of blogging."
This is, of course, why I have few, if any, regular readers. That and the recent slowdown in publishing here in the arena.
There is a curious law of the internet attention economy, and blogging exemplifies its practice, which states that "the more links out, the more links in". Here at De Spectaculis we call this law MOMI (more out, more in). An occupational hazard, of course, is that this can lead to an eruption of GIGO. Be careful . . .
Of course, I too could be short and punchy, but, while I'd have more readers, I'd soon be bored. That's just me.
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