Patterico's Pontifications

2/17/2009

Blogiversary

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 12:14 am

This blog is six years old today.

According to my dashboard, there have been 9,810 posts, and 255,738 approved comments.

Thanks for reading. Please spread the word.

Comments (33)

33 Responses to “Blogiversary”

Congrats Patterico. Whoo hoo!
no one you know (1ebbb1) — 2/17/2009 @ 2:58 am
Congrats, my e-friend, as Better Half refers to all of you.
JD (acbb4c) — 2/17/2009 @ 5:00 am
Congratulations.

Just don’t get a marketing consultant to help you “re do” the blog because they would probably suggesting calling it “Pat’s Place.”
Joe (17aeff) — 2/17/2009 @ 5:02 am
Very cool place to visit.
Old Coot (7721b8) — 2/17/2009 @ 6:03 am
Wow. Very nice. Happy Blogiversary.
Pablo (99243e) — 2/17/2009 @ 6:06 am
And they all said you’d grow up to be nothing more than a wildly successful attorney…..
EricPWJohnson (24b7b6) — 2/17/2009 @ 7:39 am
Outstanding Young Man! The future looks bright based on nothing but what you have done in the past. Happy Anneversary to a terrific blogger.
GM Roper who wants DRJ back (85dcd7) — 2/17/2009 @ 8:18 am
I’m really impressed with what you’ve done here, and it’s not even your day job. Keep on!*

*and if DRJ returns, it’s be even better!
Bradley J. Fikes, C.O.R. (0ea407) — 2/17/2009 @ 8:22 am
Yeah, but really, really cool Blogiversary parties have free ice cream & stuff…
Adriane (6cae82) — 2/17/2009 @ 8:24 am
This blog is top shelf.
Thanks for your work and information output Patterico.
Baxter Greene (8035ae) — 2/17/2009 @ 8:55 am
Congratulations, Host!
Care to share some top-blog secrets while we are celebrating? I mean why is this one of the most visited blogs on the blogosphere? Why does it attract both conservatives and liberals like bees to honey? So let me make it easy for you.
7 Reasons why Patterico’s Pontification is the best is:
(1)………………………………….
(2)…………………………………….
(3)…………………………………….
(4)………………………………………
(5)……………………………………..
(6)……………………………………..
(7)………………………………………

(Hint) Anyone is free to jump in. 😉
Emperor7 (0c8c2c) — 2/17/2009 @ 9:20 am
Drawn like a moth to a flame,
I would definitely have more time for some utterly worthless endeavors,
if not for the time spent at this site.

Congratulations on a job Well Done!
AD - RtR/OS (58203b) — 2/17/2009 @ 10:00 am
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ACORN-holed [Dan Collins] (7a2640) — 2/17/2009 @ 10:01 am
(1) P.Pontification is the best because of all the good people I have come to know here. Cheers to you all. You make it happen.
Emperor7 (0c8c2c) — 2/17/2009 @ 11:24 am
Happy Blogiversary!
kimsch (2ce939) — 2/17/2009 @ 11:44 am
[…] Today is the sixth “blogiversary for Patterico’s Pontifications. He noted that his WordPress dashboard indiocated that there have been 9,810 posts, and 255,738 approved comments on his site in the past six years. Yeah, well according to my dashboard, Akismet has blocked 502,242 incoming spam attacks! […]
Common Sense Political Thought » Blog Archive » Happy Blogiversary to Patterico (73d96f) — 2/17/2009 @ 11:57 am
Patterico’s blog has turned six,
‘Cause of the interesting topics he picks
We don’t wonder why
We keep coming by
It’s ’cause lib’rul ass our host kicks!
The Limerick Avenger (3e4784) — 2/17/2009 @ 12:03 pm
Congratulations, Patrick, and many thanks. Your amazing blog would be essential reading in any case, but it’s particularly important in a city such as LA, where there exists no daily newspaper. Thank God we have you, Kevin Roderick, Mickey Kaus, Andrew Breitbart, Nikki Finke, Roger Simon, Drudge…. I’ve never felt better informed (nor had fewer California sections to recycle, unread).
Scott Kaufer (857688) — 2/17/2009 @ 12:16 pm
Blogs like this falsify the tired claim by self-satified MSM hacks that only newspapers do real reporting.

Here’s another example. about yet another financial scandal the MSM was too afraid to vigorously investigate.

This, ladies and gentlemen, is how the journalistic sausage is made. It’s a hyper-competitive world, which is good in some respects, but very bad in others — the Stanford case being a prime example. When Dalmady broke the story, Matt Goldstein of Business Week and Alison Fitzgerald of Bloomberg were already quite far advanced in their own investigations of Stanford. As a result, the WSJ and the NYT were reluctant to report the story, and were pretty late to the game. The FT had it even worse, being hobbled by lawyers worrying about the UK’s draconian libel laws. . .

More generally, essentially no media source has had the guts to do what Dalmady expected of them — which is to take a critical look at Stanford’s financials, as he did, and try to work out whether they indicate the presence of fraud. Instead, most of the Stanford reporting has been about regulatory investigations — including the SEC investigation which has been dragging on for at least three years now.
Brother Bradley J. Fikes, C.O.R., who implores DRJ to remain at Patterico! (6b0eee) — 2/17/2009 @ 1:16 pm
Yay! 6 years is many. It is for real an important thing you do Mr. Patterico sir. I will tell you how I think of it. Clicks here are not clicks there. That’s a big damn deal I think.
happyfeet (71f55e) — 2/17/2009 @ 1:31 pm
Bravo, Patterico.

Happy Anniversary!

You’re the only conservative blog I’m aware of that lets liberals play to win.

That sets you apart in two ways: it makes your blog a model of free speech and free-thought and it helps steer your commenters away from easy assumptions, while assuring them that whatever arguments may well be tested.

The conservative movement can only benefit from that.
Hax Vobiscum (edacf7) — 2/17/2009 @ 1:40 pm
oh. I know other blogs what lets liberal peoples comment. You can ask me which ones but I won’t tell you.
happyfeet (71f55e) — 2/17/2009 @ 1:43 pm
I sooooo enjoy happyfeet. Hacks, not so much.
JD (acbb4c) — 2/17/2009 @ 1:44 pm
Conservative blogs that let liberals “play to win” often get overrun with trolls. Patrick has more patience than I do and spends time rooting out the worst of the trolls. Liberal blogs mostly delete comments that don’t agree with them.
Mike K (8df289) — 2/17/2009 @ 1:46 pm
Congratulations, Patterico. Yours is still the only blog I read or comment on regularly.
Leviticus (43095b) — 2/17/2009 @ 1:51 pm
That’s “congratulations on 6 successful years”, not “congratulations that yours is the only blog I read or comment on regularly.” My ego’s not that big.

Heh. The English language is a slippery devil.
Leviticus (43095b) — 2/17/2009 @ 1:53 pm
Happy Birthday and congrats.

Great writing probably the cause of your success : )
The Machiavellian (0bbf99) — 2/17/2009 @ 2:33 pm
Very well done, and many more!
EW1(SG) (e27928) — 2/17/2009 @ 3:41 pm
Happy anniversary, and thanks for the information and entertainment!
Patricia (89cb84) — 2/17/2009 @ 5:46 pm
A very happy blogiversary to you! Thank you for your commitment to fearlessly rooting out the truth – no matter how ugly, gnarly or shocking it may be!
Dana (137151) — 2/17/2009 @ 5:55 pm
In a mexico city hotel bar, the band just played “happy birthday.” Not a coincidence. Felicidades!
carlitos (f4f9e7) — 2/17/2009 @ 6:22 pm
Congratulations, Patter-EE-koh, yours is the only blog I read or comment on regularly … unlike Lvi my ego is that gi-normus. LOL.
Obama über alles!!!!! (48dd5e) — 2/17/2009 @ 6:24 pm
And thank you for reading the LAT so we don’t have to.
Patricia (89cb84) — 2/17/2009 @ 7:44 pm

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