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bloggy mcbloggerton xii (random thoughts and links)

Let’s hear it for Alan Arkin, best supporting actor! Instead of “McBloggerton” I should call this series “Go look at other people’s blogs because their posts are better than mine.” I. For some reason I’ve been returning to and digging the art by Natasha Wescoat over at music is art. It really goes great with [...]

Bloggy McBloggerton xi

Today’s blogger introspective theme: What makes for a popular post? Is it the comments? Comments generated by a post is most obvious marker of popularity. I was just looking through my New Blogger tools to see what post, out of all 191 (gasp) before this one, had the most comments. Funny, it was a Bloggy [...]

Bloggy McBloggerton x

Welcome to Beta I just switched to the new Blogger Beta. Hopefully this move will minimize the upload time, download pictures a little faster, provide more assistance to the html-challenged, and distribute food to all the hungry children of the world. Did it work? If this blog looks the same as the last time you [...]

Bloggy McBloggerton xi

I haven’t blogged introspective in a long time, or really provided any links, either. Since I’m a little drained of inward thinking at the moment, we’ll turn to the rest of blogosphere. Mainly, there’s a new sociology blogger in town: Blue Monster by Dan Myers. And I can kill two blogs with one stone (not [...]

Bloggy McBlogerton viii

(Best of Pearls Before Swine by Stephen Pastis, click on Rat to read) These days I don’t really blog instantly when I think of an idea. Instead I save up for when I have the time. I had been planning to address this issue of “Long Post, Short Post” by Carly Confused , you know, [...]

bloggy mcbloggerton vii

(Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis. Click to view) SociologyLast week, or has it now been two weeks, Jeremy Freese posted a puzzle feature that occupied way too much of my time. Go ahead and check it out, consider what you think first and then find the answer here. I was wrong, but I do [...]

Bloggerifically Statisfying

(Pearls Before Swine by Stephen Pastis. Click to make bigger) This post is in honor of my statistics course. The Social Science Statistics Blog suggests avoiding the word “regression” (as used in the phrase “multiple regression analysis”). It’s safe to say that their reasoning is different than my reasoning for avoiding the word. However, their [...]

blogger mcblogblog v

Steven Pastis Pearls Before Swine. Click on the crocs to make bigger. School starts this week. Hopefully these links won’t bore you as much as my lectures might. Sociologists on Blogging. Introspective thoughts on blogging by sozlog, a German bilingual sociology blog who calls for more sociology blogs. This after Teppo at orgtheory.net adds a [...]

bloggerton iv

The Family Circus is in Chicago this week! Darn, and just when I’m out of town. I’d include today’s cartoon, but Bill Keane seems bent on not letting anyone see his daily fun unless you procure an actual print newspaper or if you subscribe to a special web service. If you must, google “family circus” [...]

bloggy mcbloggerton iii

(Pearls Before Swine by Stephen Pastis; click on Rat to make larger) Here are some links I’ve been poking around in the last week Waiting for GoffmanGreat sociological perspective on blogging by Rhymes With Scrabble, who is studying for her prelims. So am I, so I appreciate this! [footnote: actually I have to write an [...]

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