Category: Blogging
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Is A.I. Killing the World Wide Web?
From The Economist: As AI changes how people browse, it is altering the economic bargain at the heart of the internet. Human traffic has long been monetised using online advertising; now that traffic is drying up. Content producers are urgently trying to find new ways to make AI companies pay them for information. If they cannot, the open web…
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Technical Difficulties
Due to problems with the Typepad comment system, comments will not be accepted or answered until these problems can be resolved. This may take a while. Afflicted as I am with cacoethes scribendi, posting will continue. I thank you for your 'patronage.'
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Site Stats at Sweet Sixteen
Although Maverick Philosopher has been on-line for over 20 years now, its third incarnation, this Typepad version, first saw the light of day on Halloween, 2008, 16 years ago. I thank you for reading. Although the heyday of blogging is long gone, the peak having occurred near the end of the aughts, I bump along…
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Around the ‘Stackosphere’
I just now coined the word. Who's going to stop me? If there is a blogoshere, then there is a stackosphere. You send traffic to me, I send traffic to you. Free speech! Open inquiry! Death to DEI! Down with the Dems and all the reprobable forces of anti-civilization! Long live the Republic! Philosophical Micro…
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Twenty Years Into It
Today is my 20th 'blogiversary.' Can you say cacoethes scribendi? I've missed only a few days in these twenty years so it's a good bet I'll be blogging 'for the duration.' Blogging for me is like reading and thinking and meditating and running and hiking and playing chess and breathing and eating and playing the guitar and…
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Sonoran Spring Surge Subsides
It ran for four consecutive days with total page views per diem clocking in at 10,000, 75,000, 150,000, and 40,000. And now back to blessed obscurity. What was that all about? One hypothesis for which I have some evidence is that I triggered an ugly bunch of Jew haters with a favorable remark about Alan…
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10,000 Page Views Yesterday!
What explains yesterday's traffic surge? My average is 1200-1300 page views per diem. Recent posts are nothing to get excited about. It is not as if their quality is superior to what I regularly crank out. Have I 'triggered' some woke 'influencer'? Pissed off a powerful pol? Is the NSA rifling through* my vast archives…
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Malcolm Pollack is Back in the Saddle . . .
. . . with a series of outstanding posts. Start with A Higher Duty and scroll down. If I have his story straight, he did not attend college. And it shows. UPDATE A correspondent sends the following comment from a post at Powerline that will help you understand the gravity of the situation at the…
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Bill Keezer Passes On
Word came last night from Bill's wife Jennifer: Sadly Bill passed away November 29th. His heart just finally wore out. He spoke of you often and considered you a valued friend. Bill Keezer was a biologist with lively philosophical, theological, and political interests. We met in the early days of the blogosphere circa 2003 and…
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Halloween: 15th Typepad Anniversary
The Typepad incarnation of MavPhil is now 15 years old. It has racked up 6,637,776 page views, which averages out to 1211 page views per day. It boasts 11,838 posts and 14,342 comments. And this despite shadow banning. I thank you for your patronage. Double your money back if not completely satisfied. "If you like…
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Thomas Mann on Blogging
Thomas Mann: Diaries 1918-1939 (Abrams, 1982, tr. R & C Winston), p. 194: I love this process by which each passing day is captured, not only in its impressions, but also, at least by suggestion, its intellectual direction and content as well, less for the purpose of rereading and remembering than for taking stock, reviewing, maintaining…
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Summer Slowdown
"Blogging will be light," as we used to say in the early days of the blogosphere. I have a couple of books I need to finish and some practical business to attend to. But this won't be a total unplug as in earlier years. I plan to blog on both here and at Substack, but…
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How to Write a Good Comment
I offer a comment of mine as an example. It is a brief response to a Substack entry by Elliot Crozat. Here is the comment: Very nice post, Elliot. Your reconstruction is valid. You say that (2) is "solid." It is, but it is not self-evident. For one epistemically possible view is that the dead…
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Why Mix Politics with Philosophy?
I have been asked why I intersperse political entries with narrowly philosophical ones. But in every case the question was put to me by someone who tilts leftward. If my politics were leftist, would anyone complain? Probably not. Academe and academic philosophy are dominated by leftists, and to these types it seems entirely natural that…
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Sweet Nineteen
Today is my 19th 'blogiversary.' Can you say cacoethes scribendi? I've missed only a few days in these nineteen years so it's a good bet I'll be blogging 'for the duration.' Blogging for me is like reading and thinking and meditating and running and hiking and playing chess and breathing and eating and playing the guitar…