Category: Blogging
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Three Million Page Views
Yesterday, the Typepad version of Maverick Philosopher shot past the three million page view mark. This, the third main version of MavPhil, commenced operations on 31 October 2008. The first main version took off on 4 May 2004. To be exact, total page views at the moment are 3,003,886. That averages to 1,290.33 page views per…
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Legal Insurrection
My post, Leftists and Civility, was tagged as post of the day today at Legal Insurrection. I return the compliment by naming it Blog of the Day.
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Andrew Sullivan Gives Up Blogging
And it isn't even Lent yet. Why? Two reasons. The first is one I hope anyone can understand: although it has been the most rewarding experience in my writing career, I’ve now been blogging daily for fifteen years straight (well kinda straight). That’s long enough to do any single job. In some ways, it’s as…
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Comment Policy
A reader asked about my comment policy. It is more of an anti-comment policy. I look askance at comments. Ten years of quotidian toil in the 'sphere have supplied me with many arguments. To put it aphoristically, The best arguments against an open combox are the contents of one. Scribbler that I am, I have…
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The MavPhil Doctrine of Abrogation
In case you missed it, 'abrogation' is in effect in these pages. Thus yesterday's fine entry on the No True Scotsman fallacy– which you really ought to study and think through as opposed to skim — abrogates and supersedes an earlier effort along the same lines from February 2009 which was a bit sloppy. You…
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Posts of Christmas Past
Posts and Ghosts of Christmas Past: 'Merry Xmas' Egyptian Muslims Serve as Human Shields at Coptic Christmas Mass Socializing as Self-Denial Merry Scroogemas! Ebeneezer Scrooge and the Limits of Doxastic Voluntarism In the Interests of Prandial Harmony Minimalist and Maximalist Modes of Holiday Impersonality Of Christograms and Political Correctness
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Typo Man
First order of the cyberday is the correction of the previous day's typographical errors. I astonish myself at my obliviousness to my own mistakes of typography. Four corrections already this fine morn. Add that to a couple I made yesterday. A variation on the theme that "A man hears what he wants to hear and…
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Reposts and Reruns
Reposts are the reruns of the blogosphere. If Twilight Zone and Seinfeld episodes are worth viewing more than once, then surely . . . .
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Surge City
I, or rather this site, experienced a surge yesterday: 4,207 pageviews. Why? Beats me. My traffic is usually in the 1600-2000 pageviews per day range. This, the TypePad version of MavPhil commenced operations on Halloween 2008. This third incarnation of MavPhil is closing in on the 3 million total pageview mark. That's nothing to crow…
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A Commonplace Blog: Uncommonly Good, Now at an End
I headed over to D. G. Myers' high-level literary weblog this afternoon only to find that its penultimate post, dated 22 July, was the last by Myers. The final entry, dated 29 September, by his sister-in-law, records his death. And then I recalled that Myers had written some friendly but trenchant critiques of my amateur…
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The MavPhil Doctrine of Abrogation
In cases of 'Emersonian' inconsistency, later entries of this weblog abrogate earlier ones. For an explanation of 'Emersonian' inconsistency and its difference from logical inconsistency, see On Diachronic or 'Emersonian' Consistency. Related articles On Diachronic or 'Emersonian' Consistency Logic, Hypocrisy, and Tobacco-Wackery Obama as Bullshitter More on the Supposed Non-Existence of the Self
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Hilary Putnam, Blogger
Hilary Putnam took up blogging on 29 May of this year. Well, better late than never. He has entitled his weblog Sardonic Comment. He might also have considered It Ain't Obvious What's Obvious, which is a line he uses somewhere. In 1976, when I delivered the John Locke Lectures at Oxford, I often spent time…
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What Books, Inq. and MavPhil Have in Common
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The Converse of Pandora’s Box
Unable to contain her curiosity, Pandora opened her box and a multitude of evils escaped into the world. The blogger, unable to contain his curiosity as to the comments he might receive, opens his combox and a multitude of evils _________________. (You finish the sentence.) Related articles Of 'Blind Review' and Pandora's Box Man dies…
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We Were Under CyberAttack Yesterday
Typepad bloggers were subjected to yet further outages yesterday, outages Typepad claims were caused by a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. Every outage an outrage to the 'blogsessive.' Let's hope we don't see a repeat of April's fiasco. So I managed to snag only 744 pageviews yesterday. But traffic is overall good. 15 May…