Meta bloggers can breath again. Daypop is back.

Wishful Thinking
This from Tim

Blair…..

THIS SITE just

recorded its 700,000th hit. At twenty cents per hit, that works

out to … let’s see now … holy moley! I’m rich! Rich, I tell

you!

UPDATE. Several reader e-mails, plus a note from the people

at Blogspot, point out that I am not entitled to receive twenty

cents per hit. The actual sum is somewhat less than that. In

fact, it is not a “sum” as such.

There may be some delays in posting while I revise my blog

business plan. And return the Ducati…….

Nooooo, not the Ducati! Nice deam though.

He trys
Colby Cosh

has this to say about responding to another blogger.

What a pleasant, intelligent fellow he seems. I’m

basically a professional polemicist, and even so it’s a real

effort for me to write in a tone 10% as calm and respectful as

he does. Not that I usually bother.

No, he wasn’t responding to me.

Canadian Celebrities
Canadian

celebrities and many members of the Order of Canada have

come out against war on Iraq. Oh gee, I guess Canadian troops

won’t dare go anywhere. This kind of thing just makes me tired.

I didn’t hear one of them speak out when Canadian missionary

children were trapped in their school on the Ivory Coast this

week.

Looking Forward to This
Microcontent News touches on a point near and dear to my

ego.

There seems to be something about the blog format

itself that seems to encourage an almost cancerous growth of

our egos. In an attempt to understand this, I’ve been

exploring the psychological background behind ego (the real

psych stuff, not that old school Freudian rubbish). As I’ve

mapped this psych theory onto the world of blogs, some

interesting dynamics have starting to emerge.

Blogs do bring out the best and the worst in us, don’t they?

Bloggers are so human! There will be more.

That’s probably going to be the subject of my first

Mental Illness of Bloggers article: the intersection between

blog and ego. Any blogging psychologists out there have time

for an interview? (pyschotic bloggers will do in a

pinch).

Can’t wait for that one.

Code Help
I am making and continue to make a fundamental coding mistake

when I enter a quote. Help. My tag line winds up a few too

many spaces down from the quote.
I put in the quote, then the word ‘blockquote’ with the ’slash’

and those ‘funny little arrows’, and then the ‘break code’ with

the ’slash’ and those ‘funny little arrows’.
I don’t know on which side of the word the /slashes/ go….I

just stick them in. Can someone help me out here?