Thursday, June 03, 2004
(6:42 PM) | Adam Kotsko:
Blogospheric Habits
In the spirit of Monica's survey, which I think everyone should probably take if they haven't already, skipping this post if necessary, and which is already approaching a record level of comments (topped only by a couple posts, including the current top post "There is nothing outside the blog") -- I'm interested to see what blogs, if any, the Weblog's readers are also reading.
Here's my lineup for a quick lunch-time skim. I finally broke down and made Atrios my start page, since it's so frequently updated and I don't want to "pollute" the Weblog's use statistics too much. After that, I usually check the UWC and a few of the more frequently updated member sites (à Gauche probably holds my personal record for the ratio of visits to actual updates; I try to only check this site when I get comments by e-mail that seem to indicate one of my co-bloggers have posted or to make sure that one of my posts looks right). Then I usually check John and Belle or Crooked Timber. Increasingly, Unfogged is becoming my go-to blog -- it may soon take Atrios's place as my start page.
If I have more time, my habits become pretty random. I usually visit Cliopatria, Michael Bérubé, Amardeep Singh, wood s lot, and Matthew Yglesias on something like a daily basis. I read the more mainstream blogs like Talking Points or Kevin Drum less often. I enjoy them, but they feel like something that's more appropriate to read during stolen moments at work, rather than making a point of taking my personal time to read. I probably end up hitting every blog on my blogroll every week or two, but I don't go through it systematically. I like the idea of the "nothing but links" sites like Political Theory or Arts and Letters or Cursor, but I very rarely go to them -- I want more personality.
(Perhaps this makes me shallow, but I also tend to want to visit sites more when they've linked to me, not just on the blogroll, but in an actual post. That's the main reason that I keep reading Sullywatch even though it's been months since I've read Andrew Sullivan.)
