notapoet on blogging - Blogithttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/notapoet5897/All the top bloggers seem to have multiple blogs in a variety of categories. Success breeds imitators. But,nobody loves a copycat. I want everyone to love and respect me don't I? Oh what the (expletive deleted)! hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00An experimenthttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/notapoet5897/634354Two days ago I posted to my fiction blog and have no bites yet. A few minutes ago I posted to my poetry blog for the first time in three months. I expect the latter to get more hits in a day than the former, though quite short, will get in a week. It's the way things seem to work on Blogit these...Restoration of Balancehttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/notapoet5897/627975I wish I could take credit for a partial leveling of the playing field in a category that had been hijacked by a few vociferous right wing conservatives. In truth I probably just pointed out a disturbing inequity that others had already began to notice. It was likely mere happenstance that an...Stacking the Deckhttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/notapoet5897/627494No ranking of categories this morning, though it was a tempting prospect. Being inactive on Blogit for five weeks has given me an opportunity to examine a phenom that has served to skew the results when ranking the popularity of various categories. Some bloggers habitually produce more than one...Okay, it's a trendhttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/notapoet5897/623196Poetry is down a bit with less than 30 blogs in the Top 100 for seven straight days through the August 5 Blogit update, and with active blogs within the last seven days running about a handful down from the mid-sixties. Whether this is temporary or long term remains to be seen. As for the rest of...One percentershttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/notapoet5897/622457As often pointed out here, there is usually little noticeable change in the relative popularity of Blogit categories from day to day. This is one of the main reasons I quit trying to crank out rankings on a daily basis quite some time ago. The lack of apparent change tended to be boring to all...