Wednesday, August 17, 2005
(8:20 AM) | Adam Kotsko:
Reflexivity
For the past few months, I have made a conscious effort to avoid meta-blogging, outside of the Confessional and the Tuesday Hatred. I feel that I have had some success. After a brief period of constant self-reflexive nonsense, fictional contributors, and overall disarray, I have restored discipline and structure to The Weblog. I have received more rewards from this labor than I could have ever imagined -- topping 200 links on Technorati, becoming a Marauding Marsupial in the Truth Laid Bear Ecosystem, averaging around 400 hits a day on weekdays. Comments are up, employment figures are up -- everything is going great.But I have a confession to make, a confession too shameful for the Friday Confessional: every time I sit down to blog, a meta-blogging post is what first comes to mind. I am still meta-blogaholic, and I always will be. Often I am able to strike a balance between my meta-blogging instincts and serious analysis of the day's issues by doing a kind of meta-rhetorical analysis, and those kinds of posts are among my most successful in terms of getting wider readership -- I'm a functional meta-blogaholic, we could say. But it's a serious problem, and I need all of you to help keep me accountable.
