Comments on: A Month of Blogging, Ten Years On

By: Marketing Digital

Marketing Digital — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 10:43:14 +0000

I am really loving the theme/design of your weblog. Do you ever run into any web browser compatibility problems? A few of my blog visitors have complained about my blog not working correctly in Explorer but looks great in Safari. Do you have any advice to help fix this issue?

By: CarlD

CarlD — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 06:02:40 +0000

Well you are wicked smart, and loveable for it. Thanks for sharing the shinies.

By: Margie

Margie — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 18:24:29 +0000

‘A private notebook sent adrift’ – I like that. That is how we all start blogging, but that doesn’t say why we start, does it? I think we send our work off so that others will send out lifelines and each of those lines (links and comments) connects us to all the other drifters. You know that better then any of us, I’m sure!

By: J. Otto Pohl

J. Otto Pohl — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 17:32:32 +0000

I have had a blog for eight years now and I still do not have any more readers than I back then. At last count my regular readers were 10 down from a high point of about 12 at one time. Other than Walt Richmond who has recently become a big name in Circassian history, and Victor Krieger at University of Heidelberg nobody of any note has ever read a single thing I have ever put on my blog. My guess is that blogs get read on the basis of the status of their authors in other contexts. That is professors at privileged white universities like Swathmore will of course be taken seriously and read widely. In contrast somebody at an African university like myself will be hard pressed to find a dozen readers.

By: Withywindle

Withywindle — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 02:38:34 +0000

Tip of the hat here too. And of course my own blog was a secession from your comments section. 🙂

By: Gavin Weaire

Gavin Weaire — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 15:18:31 +0000

Congratulations from me also. Not much to be said beyond that you’ve pretty much defined what can be done with long-form, thoughtful, academic blogging that is still recognizable as blogging.

By: Western Dave

Western Dave — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 13:23:14 +0000

Congrats, Tim. My own adventures in blogging were shortlived but I have enjoyed being connected to this and other intellectual communities. You continue to be a model for me as I explore the demands of teaching, parenting, community activism and trying to maintain some sense of intellectual life and growth.

By: Danny

Danny — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 01:03:47 +0000

Congrats on 10 years! I first stumbled across your website back before I started at Swarthmore (perhaps even before I applied) and still remember a snarky review of a now long-dead rib joint in Media. Since then I’ve learned a lot from you, both as a teacher and as a (gulp) public intellectual. Thanks.

By: Joey Headset

Joey Headset — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 18:50:32 +0000

Congrats on your Blogoversary!

By: back40

back40 — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 15:00:05 +0000

I could tell a similar story, with the inclusion of Usenet and mailing lists as important early venues. I thought that your smart but still likable personna at BS was great, and seeing that voice perpetuated here is good IMV.