The thin posting here is due to an extended holiday. It's coming to an end now.
But Chris Dillow's annoying habit of saying things that I've been thinking of saying* (only with lots more coherence, charm and straighforward evidence, damn the man) has continued unabated.
Firstly, Adam Smith - echoing Socrates surely - on the inverse relationship between a blog's traffic and it's quality.
Secondly, teaching kids to gamble.
And thirdly missing counterfactuals, the availability heuristics, outgroup homogeneity bias, and bayesian conservatism.
*OK, the stuff about how Blogs should focus on quality, not visitor-quantity and the bit about how you learn a lot about life by losing your shirt were in the pipeline here. But don't ever come here expecting anything as coherent as the post behind that last link.
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Aww, thanks! I'm blushing like a girlie now.
If it's any use, I'm thinking of posting about how Leicester is the best city in the world, and Nottingham the worst.
I was genuinely going to do a post of my own saying "Hasn't Stumbling and Mumbling been brilliant recently?", but you've beaten me to it. I won't now, it would look like plagiarism.
Chris Dillow: An apology
Reflecting on Chris's comment (above), I can see that I've clearly misrepresented his blog. When I said that Chris "offers an example that all bloggers can only aspire to" I was actually refering to his lack of judgement, mean spiritedness and mendacity.
I hope that clears everything up.
;-)
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