{"id":85,"date":"2005-05-05T07:46:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-05T14:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/reading-and-writing\/"},"modified":"2005-05-05T07:46:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-05T14:46:00","slug":"reading-and-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/05\/reading-and-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading and writing"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, I think we set a record for visitors to Preposterous yesterday. Mark<\/a> also noticed that even his blog got a lot more visitors than usual. From this we derive an obvious lesson: if you want to generate traffic, you should write about me. (Not “yourself,” you understand — you should write about me, Sean.)<\/p>\n

Seriously, I am overwhelmed by the outpouring of supportive comments. They mean a lot to me. But I do want to clarify one point. When I mentioned that blogging will be a low priority, nobody should read that as “while I drink heavily and wallow in self-pity.” (Self-pity will not be involved.) Rather, it’s “since I don’t have much time while I scramble to get some other things done.” Perhaps I am simply in an early, denial-based phase, but at the moment I am in no danger at all of questioning myself. I am questioning the judgment of some people, but not of myself. Hopefully I will soon find time to write the posts I have in mind on wormholes, amateurs, string theory, and co-evolutionary learning. (Those are separate posts, not one big one — although that would be fun.)<\/p>\n

In the meantime, I understand there are other blogs out there. All the ones on the blogroll are written by witty and charismatic thinkers, I encourage you to visit. (To pick two at not-quite-random, Shakespeare’s Sister<\/a> and Ezra Klein<\/a> are a couple I should be linking to much more often.) And don’t forget the “next blog” button in the top right corner, which is a source of constant delight. Today I discovered Sharon Spotbottom<\/a>, which has some interesting and provocative cartoons. But it will be hard to beat my all-time favorite, the Bean Bag Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, I think we set a record for visitors to Preposterous yesterday. Mark also noticed that even his blog got a lot more visitors than usual. From this we derive an obvious lesson: if you want to generate traffic, you should write about me. (Not “yourself,” you understand — you should write about me, Sean.) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}