I am noticing a trend here, and it's actually kinda pissing me off. I can write a string of great posts about things like data retention, and no major blogger is willing to link to them. I write something like this, and I get a link like this. What is this... Murphy's Law of Blogging? If a blogger can link to a post and abuse your tone, they will link to your post and abuse the tone? Do I need to start putting <tone></tone> and <irony></irony> around every potentially controversial, but tongue-in-cheek, post of mine? Sheesh. I can't win for losing with these people most of the time...
This is one of the problems with the blogosphere that knocks the wind out of the Army of Davids' sails. It's easy for the bigger bloggers to just pull out a single post, roast a smaller blogger then say "let's move on with the conversation." I mean, let's face it. Anyone who reads my blog will see that I attack conservatives and even my fellow libertarians about as much as I am prone to attack liberals, but you wouldn't know that from Cathy Young' post. In fact, I'd probably sound a lot like a Republican Party hack, which'd be ironic since half of the candidates I have ever voted for were independents or Libertarians. Hell, in 2004, I wrote Cthulhu in the write-in slot for the House seat in the Virginia 6th district election because of how much I didn't like conservative Republican Bob Goodlatte.
*Shrugs* C'est la vie...
Maybe when I get a chance to learn Perl, I should write a HyperText Snarkup Language plugin for Movable Type and WordPress to make things clearer >:)
At least the "big blogs" are paying attention. Better than being ignored, I guess.
Just out of curiosity, how often do they link to you?
In the 3.5 years that I have been blogging, I've been linked by:
1) Instapundit
2) Cathy Young
3) Right Thinking from the Left Coast
4) The Agitator
Maybe another one or two, I'm not sure. Thsoe are the ones that come to mind. What happened in each that I remember:
1) I got linked for posting a musing about how Fox only cares when it's a dead white girl (Glenn Reynolds was actually positive in that link).
2) I was held up as a partisan hack, which is ironic, since I can be as vicious or more so to my fellow libertarians as I can be to liberals.
3) Lee went absolutely postal on a post of mine that was meant to be tongue-in-cheek about "how to deal with Christians if you're a secularist" or something similar to that. Here's my post. Just do a search for it on right-thinking.com
4) Radley Balko took a post that I linked to in one of Reason Hit and Run's comment areas and posted it on his main page as a collection of rebuttals against one of John Hawkins of Right Wing News' articles on drug prohibition for Human Events.
So, it's actually been a bit more 50/50, but it seems like when they find these posts through Technorati or Google (half of them were presumably found that way) they pick on the ones that are not meant to be taken seriously as though they are very serious content.
I once got linked by Slate for a post I did on the Colorado Supremes tossing a murder verdict over a bible in the jury room. Had a whole cadre of lawyers descend on that post.
I still have a ring around my tub from washing THAT off...
I can imagine. I think Rachel would just go straight for the bleach in order to save us the hassle and water bill ;)
No one links to my posts.
No one with big viewerage has noticed me.
I can live with that.
I would like to be fabulously famous, even if only in my annonymous guise.
Despite my many posts on economics and military theory, I am still found mostly by people looking for Britney "Speers" panties. THe miss-spelling of the name appears to be a key factor in my popularity there.
Dirty panties?
Ewww.
It's a shame that you have not been noticed, Roci. Your blog is one of the best that I have seen of anyone that isn't all but a full time blogger.
I think some people are disinterested in the truth; I'm not sure what you can do about that.
Regarding something you said up top:
In the 2006 election, I loathed both major party candidated, so I wrote in "Mickey Mouse" for TN senator. Alas, he didn't make a significant showing.
Donald Duck w/ a cleft palate would be more coherent than some of these political hacks.
*candidates
Well where I lived, we only had a republican on the ballot. The democrats didn't even run a candidate so there wasn't even a "lesser of the two evils vote" which is part of the reason why I specifically chose to write in Cthulhu on my ballot.
It's a shame that you have not been noticed, Roci. Your blog is one of the best that I have seen of anyone that isn't all but a full time blogger.
Thanks,
I attribute my lack of success on the global success of the internet and blogging in general.
In the old days, there were a only a few hundred syndicated pundits. a new opinion added to that is a whopping 1%. Easily noticable by a sizable group of people.
But with blogging, 1 new voive in 50 million is a near-zero amount of visibility even if you are more wonderful than almost everyone else.
admitedly, I could do better with more pictures of nekkid women. Too much populatity might translate into some real money, for which I would be tempted to give up my anonymity, and for which other people would be tempted to find me and make my real life harder.
So i live in the shadows and be content with what I am.
I know what you mean about the anonymity. It's often best to keep your head down if you're in a position where those that you work with might actually take offense to what you write to such an extent that they go after you. I think only one person around here in my office even actually knows that I have actual political beliefs. Best to stay that way.
Of course we could go off the deep end like Bane and probably double our traffic...
I could double my traffic just by linking to Bane.
Why stop there? Just post a good nudie pic on your blog and have him link to it...