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I thought I’d better explain something. In case you’re wondering why I don’t read/comment on your blog anymore, there’s probably a very simple reason.

That.

Pimp of the Month
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8 Comments

  1. archiearchive FCD
    Posted February 17, 2008 at 10:35 am | Permalink

    [Feeling guilty] It wasn’t me – it was that guy over there!

  2. judyb12
    Posted February 17, 2008 at 11:58 am | Permalink

    it took me ages to figure out what you meant :-D

  3. Wandering Coyote
    Posted February 17, 2008 at 4:38 pm | Permalink

    Huh? What am I not getting? What did I do?

  4. Frontier Former Editor
    Posted February 17, 2008 at 9:52 pm | Permalink

    that you’ve mistaken me for Huggy Bear or Bad Bad Leroy Brown?

    I thought it was just because you were busy and that I haven’t been particularly insightful or brilliant in a while.

    But the black dress was still a knockout.

  5. C. Fraser
    Posted February 18, 2008 at 12:01 am | Permalink

    You’ve become a pimp and have no time for reading…profits in the pimping business are soaring, but it’s difficult constantly keeping track of, and ‘educating’ all your ho’s.

  6. raincoaster
    Posted February 18, 2008 at 12:20 am | Permalink

    No, it’s the page jump. I find it abusive; you’re forcing your readers to jump through hoops to get at your writing, because it’s JUST THAT GOOD. Trust me, when something is too hit-whorey for me, it’s too hit-whorey altogether.

    I know that since Gawker Media switched to the pay per click model page jumps have spread around the blogosphere, but although your clicks go up, your readership goes down relative to what it was before. There are only a handful of blogs where I will endure this (and yes, I’m very busy, too busy to go to a blog to read it, be prevented from doing so by a click, and come back on a regular basis; if I go to your blog, it’s because I want to read it. So let me) and it doesn’t endear them to me.

    I honestly cannot see any point whatsoever to using the page jump if you’re not posting enormous files and images that would slow down the front page loading, or if you’re not getting paid for clicks.

    I go to a blog and I see:

    So yesterday I saw the most amazing thing (click for more)

    and I go away and I don’t come back.

  7. raincoaster
    Posted February 18, 2008 at 12:21 am | Permalink

    And WC, I still read your blog, although I don’t comment much on Blogger blogs anymore since the computer went wonky a couple of months back.

  8. Railyard Toreador
    Posted February 18, 2008 at 6:38 am | Permalink

    Twitter you say…now I understand that picture of Marat. Totally awesome idea. I’m going to have to keep that site in mind.


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