It seems that the relationship between the ferocity, or uninhibited quality of my posts and the number of comments and/or trackbacks has been out of whack lately. I don’t know what to make of it, actually. I don’t want to kid myself about who’s reading. If there were nobody, I think I’d still assume there were lurkers — who are often one and the same people who every so often post comments or send me emails expressing encouragement or engagement with something I’ve expressed.

A couple or three months ago, I tried to upgrade my MOvable Type system to the new version, which effectively broke my ability to post and edit. So I fired up a WordPress blog, which also had its glitches, but I announced that I’d be posting there and announced my new RSS link for those who were using my RSS. Eventually, I was able to fix my MT blog, and resumed posting there, and posted notices to the WordPress Blog. It seems the comments have almost stopped completely. Maybe a couple more posts to the WordPress Blog will serve as a heads up to any remaining subscribers that may have replaced my Movable Type RSS with the WordPress.

I went back and forth about whether or not to express this concern, but hey , it’s a blog, and I suspect that every blogger has their periods of feeling like not that many people are listening. Maybe this is pathetic, but it’s just me, right this moment, and I decided to blog it anyway. I also wonder whether my blog has taken on too much of a focus on possible and likely instances of political corruption; of a system gone bad. That too, is going to be me for what I hope will subside after Bush gets vboted out of office, but even then, no doubt to be aimed at other issues where I see a “problem of perception” (speaking of which , a good book on New Journalism, via Blogging and such, We The Media, is what I’m back to reading today after spending much of the morning reading the second half of The Price Of Loyalty. Excellent book. Just one more story from the keen eye of a Bush administration insider who saw the workings of it from the inside.