COMMENTS: Blogger/Blog*Spot does not support
COMMENTS: Blogger/Blog*Spot does not support comments. However, I understand that there are ways to accomplish this, even with Blogger. (We have ways of allowing you to talk.) I have until now resisted comments, because, well, I am a control freak. I have this urge to control the content on my site. This is born of elitism; I’ll admit it. I think a lot of people are idiots. I don’t want idiots putting content on my blog.
However, I also like feedback. And, Gentle Readers, you aren’t giving it to me at the rate that I would like to see. Ranting is fun. It’s more fun than I ever would have imagined. But sometimes I feel like I am speaking into a black hole. When I get feedback of any sort, it reverses that impression, which is very gratifying.
As I mentioned recently, I have entered the Bear Flag League. This is a very exciting development which is already generating more traffic for the site. As I cruise the Bear Flag links (which I do several times a day, and I recommend that Patterico readers do the same), I notice that everyone has comments. What’s more, I am doing a decent amount of commenting on other people’s blogs, and that’s fun. All this makes me think: hey, maybe there is something to this commenting deal.
Right now, I am still agnostic. I would like feedback on the issue. I am eager especially in hearing from regular readers, although I am interested to hear from everyone. If you have an opinion on whether Patterico should incorporate comments, please e-mail me at the link to the left. I will make a decision soon.
[...] UPDATE: Not so fast. It looks like Krugman is still lying. [...]
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[...] has a great post on the Miers-Bush correspondence. It may in fact be the best blog posting ever! Patterico does great work, doesn’t he? [...]
Pingback by PrestoPundit » Blog Archive » PATTERICO — 10/16/2005 @ 1:52 am
[...] Patterico has a fantastic post that demonstrates one of the most subtle yet effective tactics in the arsenal of agenda driven journalists. Some call it spatial bias. Patterico calls it “The Power of the Jump”™ a semi-regular feature documenting examples of the Los Angeles Times’s use of its back pages to hide information that its editors don’t want you to see. [...]
Pingback by Pundit Review » Blog Archive » Subtle yet effective media bias — 12/21/2005 @ 11:01 am
[...] Over at Pattericoâs (thanks to See Dubya) I learned something rather disappointing about one Professor Pianka. Wouldn’t it be nice if everything about a case would come out at the same time? Makes me think we’re living in a bad episode of Perry Mason. So now I present first what I posted over in the comment thread. [...]
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[...] Hiltzik’s response to Patterico’s investigation seems to be the very thing that got him in trouble. That post has disappeared off goldenstateblog.latimes.com, but it’s excerpted at Captain’s Quarters and L.A. Observed. We’ve synthesized the two here: The right-wing blogger Patterico has apparently worked himself into a four-star ragegasm (Tbogg’s inimitable coinage) at the notion of anonymous or pseudonymous postings on his website by me. This is amusing, because most of the comments posted on his website are anonymous or pseudonymous. “Patterico” is itself a pseudonym for an Assistant Los Angeles District Attorney named Patrick Frey. Anonymity for commenters is a feature of his blog, as it is of mine. It’s a feature that he can withdraw from his public any time he wishes. He has chosen to do that in one case only, and we might properly ask why. The answer is that he’s ticked off that someone would disagree with him. [...]
Pingback by Independent Sources » Blog Archive » Times Takes Hiltzik’s Blog Down for Ethics Violations (here’s a copy of the the rebuttal you can no longer read) — 4/20/2006 @ 6:35 pm
[...] Is the Los Angeles Times‘ Michael Hiltzik censoring Patterico (here, here)? Or just not allowing links in comments? Check back tomorrow for the answer! [...]
Pingback by Independent Sources » Blog Archive » Selective Comment Moderation at Michael Hiltzik’s Golden State Blog? — 4/20/2006 @ 7:20 pm
[...] Los Angeles Times reporter/blogger Michael Hiltzik’s blog has been “suspended.” Apparently that’s the blogospheric equivalent of being given a time-out. The scandal has also made The Washington Post. [...]
Pingback by Hoystory » Blog Archive » Sock-puppetry Pt. 2 — 4/21/2006 @ 1:31 am
[...] And that’s the question being asked and answered over at Patterico’s Pontifications. There’s over a hundred comments, with both insane-lefties and even-keeled-righties giving it their best shot. I particularly liked these: Frankly, Patterico, I’m really sick of the whole “evil” schtick. I know how gloriously it plays to your end-timers, but when we dismiss our enemies, be it bin Laden or Bush, as evil, we excuse ourselves from having to comprehend what makes them do the awful things they do and come up with rational plans to combat them. So I’m going to have to ignore your plea here against equivocating and say that I’m indifferent as to who is more evil between our top two contestants. I’m on record in your archives for stating at least half-dozen reasons why I think Bush has done more harm to America than the terrorists. I’m also on record there as saying that I’d rather have Bush’s finger on the nuclear trigger than bin Laden’s. I’m actually rethinking both those propositions. In light of Bush’s emerging Iran policy, it may come to a draw as to which of the two is more Strangelovian. And as to what Stephen Colbert would call the “threat down,” it could be that bin Laden has indeed done the greater harm to America. After all, his attack on 9/11 gave Bush carte blanche to pursue his hideous policies to a cheering media, and the tape he released prior to the ’04 election assured Bush of four more years to ruin the land that I love. [...]
Pingback by OKIE on the LAM - In LA » Who is more evil — Bush or Bin Laden? — 5/6/2006 @ 9:56 am
[...] For those of you who don’t live in Los Angeles you might be wondering how did it get to this point? Just ask Los Angeles prosecutor/blogger Patterico whose pointed posting places the blame squarely on voters who have continually re-elected the notoriously inefficient LA County Supervisors who spend far more time in photo ops than addressing the county’s numerous problems. Sadly the public is now paying the consequences of the supervisors inability to manage the county. [...]
Pingback by Independent Sources » Blog Archive » Where was the public review and debate over the decision to circumvent judges, juries and prosecutors and return criminals to the streets? — 5/24/2006 @ 10:14 pm
[...] According to a California appeals court. Patterico has details and links. [...]
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