Though this might throw the thread into realms of
self-referentiality even the blogosphere would find difficult to
accommodate, I just wanted to chime in to say (a) thanks to Patrick
for seconding my sense that the ego-surfing and site-meter-checking
phenomenon (I thought it was called "vanity googling") is an
invitation to madness, (b) Kathryn is of course right that
comparing 600 readers of an academic book and X thousand readers of
an academic's blog is like comparing adorable rodents and flappy
birds, (c) Keith is right to point out that finding out who's been
visiting or referring can be very useful (I didn't turn up any
Minions of Ashcroft haunting my site, but I did, happily, run
across former bandmates from the 1980s), and (d) last but not
least, I'm not at all offended by the word "retarded."
But I am still relatively new to this, have only recently updated
my blogroll (my apologies to all the bloggers, including Teresa,
whom I've been reading for months w/o blogrolling), and am just
beginning to consider putting .jpgs on the site. Oh, and one more
thing-- I was just checking in to see what Patrick was writing
about these days. Wasn't egosurfing. Honest.
Now back to the Citation Index. . . .
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