Shameless Self-Promotion

Kevin Drum – an Ancient One, in political blog time at least – isn’t too thrilled about the new blogging status quo:

I write as much as I ever have, but in my posts I link more to news sources and less to other bloggers than I used to.  I’m not sure why.  Part of it might be related to another evolution I’ve noticed: the political blogosphere increasingly seems to latch on to four or five outrages of the day that suck up most of its attention.  It seems like every blog I read posts about the same few political nano-scandals every day, and since I mostly find this stuff kind of boring I don’t link to it very much.

I don’t know for sure if that’s a real trend or not.  My memory is famously fuzzy and I have a hard time really remembering what things were like four years ago compared to today.  But whatever the case, the end result is less engagement with other bloggers and less conversational tone to the blogosphere.  That may or may not be entirely a bad thing, but I kind of miss it.

For the record, I would more than welcome a link from Kevin Drum.  Come check the place out!  We try to vary our coverage!  Our bonds have been diversified, as it were.