Tuesday, June 01, 2004
(12:56 PM) | Adam Kotsko:
Winds of Change
I am taking a break from being a Radiohead fan. I am tired of every album and every song off of every album. I still respect others who wish to remain Radiohead fans, and I might be recharged by the time their next album comes out.
I have removed the University Without Condition advertising from my page. The prominent link under the title seems to be enough. If people want to know what the reading list is or what blogs are participating, they can go to the University Without Condition page. I instituted the separate UWC blogroll on The Weblog when it was the de facto headquarters, and Jared Woodard, then others, picked up on it shortly thereafter. Now it no longer seems necessary to have two separate blogrolls.
The only person I really meant to hassle with my "In Memoriam" post was Robb, and that hassling was successful beyond my wildest dreams. (I have settled on Anthony Smith as Shaggy in our upcoming Scoobie Doo adaptation.)
This weekend was a vacation from the computer for me. I have been feeling some blogging fatigue of late, and I realized just how tied up blogging was with schoolwork -- during periods of galloping consumption, blogging serves as a way to get some materials (not necessarily related materials) out, and it is also a good break. For much of this semester, when my classload did not permit me to take many full evenings out or to justify to myself an evening when I didn't have immediate access to books for class, blogging became a big portion of my social life. I think a lot of good came out of that. I also have no intention of scaling back the one-post-a-day pace on an offical basis. Having this weekend as (among other things) a break from blogging was good for me, though.
My traffic has plummetted within the last week or so, by the way -- by around 25%. For months, I was hovering around 140 visits per day, and now I'm averaging 100. I assume that's the summertime factor. My personal blog intake has dropped by approximately the same amount.
Later today I'll likely have a post on Jacob Taubes's Political Theology of Paul -- or tomorrow.
