John Hawkins of Right Wing News has his list of top 40 blogs, and IMAO goes to eleven. I feel like my own blogging has been slipping a little bit, which is just an issue of how much time I have to devote to blogging. That’s why I like doing the occasional PJM column to set some time aside to really expand a thought. Still, I’ve been putting up posts every weekday for a long time now, and I think I deserve my accolades.
But 40 blogs — that’s a lot. I tend to only have time to visit a couple blogs each day and then visit a few links through the Twitters. How many blogs do you guys read?
This is the only blog I read, and some days I barely have time to skim the random thoughts.
Congrats on being 11, there has to be a Spinal Tap joke in there somewhere.
“How many blogs do you guys read?”
It varies, some days I’m really busy and don’t even hit one, others days I read 5 or 6 blogs, IMAO is always part of that group.
“I feel like my own blogging has been slipping a little bit”
Yes it has. Fortunately you have brilliant posters here who more than make up for any Frank slippage. 🙂
Seriously, with a baby child I imagine you and Sarah K have barely enough time to think. So it’s understandable you might neglect IMAO a little bit. That’s OK, we know how to keep ourselves entertained.
You mean there are other blogs?
Who’d have thunk it!
I used to check dozens every day. But that was back when I had a job. Now that I’m unemployed, I don’t have the time (brain-hurty but true!). I check three or four blogs and follow links to articles.
Let’s all chip-in and give Frank a Box of Accolades™ for Christmas. Chocolate or Vanilla, Frank?
Thanks for another great year at IMAO!! Eleventy!!!11!!!!11!!!!11!!!!
I usually read 2 a day
I think the quantity has been down this year. OTOH – there’s been a lot of extra-double-good stuff this year – especially with the Buttercup Project. That’s been fun.
Depends on the day of the week. Tuesdays and Thursdays are pretty slow, but Wednesday I tend to read a lot, and Monday and Friday are busier too (silly three-times-a-week updaters). But every day I read this, the Rott, Q&O, Riccochet, and Instapundit. So that’s five there, plus a few game and anime blogs on top of that. And then whatever Instapundit links to that I like.
But I have a lot of time on my hands – there’s a reason it’s called funemployment, right? Right?
I used to check two a day, but got to not like the other one so much…so now I’m down to just IMAO! The first thing I go to when I hop online from work most days.
Frank, I think you should let your blogging slip a little.
IMAO appears to be a tight-knit community of cat burglars, cats, grandmothers, Southern Baptists, drunken, mad Irish engineers, drunken, stubborn German farmers, disgraced Scottish Highland chiefs, exotic dancers, the drunken Berserkers known as U.S. Marines, one crazed man who holds delusional, quasi-religious fantasies about submarines, ten or twenty others caught under the general term of “miscreants”, and a troll passing by now and then.
Blog better and more normal people and trolls will arrive, thus ruining our community, in my arrogant opinion.
I have just recently discovered imao, and it has replaced Mark Steyn’s site as my first goto. Linkiest, AnnCoulter, and occasionaly NewsRealBlog and fivefeetoffury are others I visit.
But Frankly, if I had this one and Mark Steyn going full steam, the hilarity might kill me, or at least cause severe injury, so it’s probably good Mark is on hiatus for a while.
What’s all this talk about blobs. I’d imagine you should avoid them at all costs seeing as how they will consume you…..if you’re really old they will consume you in black and white.
Ohhhh blogs well I read this one Commentarama and DUmmies FUnnies. I’m not sure if AoSHQ is a blog or not or if Hot Air is considered a blog. Do multiple bloggers posting make it something else entirely? I can’t keep up with the lexicon of the digital age.
Congrats on 11th place in the Bloggosphere!!!! You write some truly hilarious political satire.
Marko is right. If you blog more better, you’ll only encourage them.
I read 5, no 3.
I read IMAO almost exclusively. I read Hot Air for the updates, but I stay away from their comments.
Reminds me of those in Hedley Lamar’s plan for Rock Ridge.
I really like reading comments here. Fewer high quality commentators no shortage of levity as an antidote to typical political hyperbole.
Hot Air used to be better, Ace of Spades is nice but too much “empty words” between the “smirt words”.
I start at drudge and depending on how much I feel like reading ill drop to the next one down on the list. Frank you may be number 11 to others but to me your are number 4.
-drudge headlines
-michael yon on facebook
-hot air/headlines
-IMAO
-ace of spades
-reason.com
-corner
-mark steyns homepage
-pajamas
I wish more websites had like the daily mail with the up/down arrows. That way people with nothing to say can contribute their opinion without cluttering the board and making it unreadable. People willing to sift through all the comments can boost up the good ones and save the rest of us the trouble.
Hot air is a perfect example. A rush to be one of the first commentators which means often the first 50-100 posts they have at best skimmed and spent no time thinking. The last 50-100 are usually two people arguing talking past each other. In the middle is a few worth reading and referencing but it can be like 30 other comments before you see alternate responses.
I don’t read any blogs, but I like the pictures here.
Hey, My Blog didn’t make the list…
Sometimes I go to another blog if it’s linked from here. I visit Instapundit, Malkin and PJMedia but that’s it. I visit here first. The posts are funny, pithy and the commentators intelligent and funny.
I used to visit Scrappleface a lot but I think it died and went to heaven back in September. I like to visit The Peoples Cube, but my favorite blog is IMAO. I have to agree with Marco Mancuso about not spoiling our community, as Bud from the 1984 movie Repo Man said it so well, “Look at ’em, ordinary f**king people, I hate ’em.” So as a free man and fan of IMAO I proudly say…”Ich bien ein miscreant.”
There used to be a lot more creative writing here like Newsish Fakery and daily prank postings like Fabulous Facts and Fun Facts, etc. But considering the state of the country, I guess it’s hard keep that up during these times. Yeah, and there was a lot more head rippin’ & stuffin’, too (especially in the comments!).
“I feel like my own
bloggingcommenting has been slipping a little bit…” But I blame USSJIMMYCARTER!!!!!! Oh, and that submarine guy, what’s his name. The Transylvanian.I read Hotair, NRO, Powerline, Hugh Hewitt, and occasionally Iowahawk. But I get the most fun out of this one. The missus and I read it together each night.
I read Drudge, Hot Air, Lucianne. But then when I want hard news, news the hard way the hard and nasty way. News that others are afraid to report or are hiding from us (Rail Guns, Mexicannons etc) I always come to IMOA! Then I know that I know…
Marko, there’s also a frustrated, wannabe ruler of the world, me. Someday my evil plots will come to fruition, or just to fruit. Then all my IMAO friends will have cushy jobs in my regime. I’ve been trying to secure support from various International Zionist Cosnpiracies to no avail. Something about me being completely bat$#!& crazy or sumpthing like that. C’mon, guys, I’d be a great tool for your Zionist Conspiracies! Really!
I now spend quite a bit of time at a number of different blogs. I keep checking AoSHQ all day, but I rarely read the comments, and even rarelier comment myself. I also check HotAir off and on all day and usually go through the links at Linkiest on a daily basis. Then I’ll stop by TheOtherMcCain and RightWingNews to see what they have to say.
However IMAO is the only site where I regularly read the comments and comment myself. It’s just fun like that.
Oh, and did I get lumped in under the “miscreant” label? I guess I’ll take that…
“How many blogs do you guys read?”
Unfortunately, I am unable to read and have no access to a computer.
Ummmm…I read hundreds of blogs. I have them all set up in Google Reader and browse in between homeschooling my kids, grinding my own wheat, baking my own bread, and resisting the lure of ankle length denim dresses.
However, most of them are lighter-fare homeschooling blogs or mommy blogs. I used to read Michelle Malkin, but she posts like eleventy times a day with millions of links, and then I get all agitated, turn on Fox News and curse at the teevee.
Which really interferes with watching the Real Housewives.
And I can’t have that.
And now I am off to make cookies.
I used to like the troll trap postings that Frank used to do, you know, the ones that brought in the RON PAUL! or Barack Obama supporters and lead to great arguments. That was fun.
We need more troll-trapping posts, Frank! That should get your numbers back up. Oh, and get Harvey back on a more regular basis.
IMAO (daily M-F) + Rachel Lucas now that she has started, occasionally, posting on her blog again. I used to enjoy Moxie too, but all good things must evenually come to an end it seems.
Dave Barry’s blog is great for the off-beat linkage, but only if work load permits.
IMAO, then whatever IMAO provides links to, then back to IMAO.
That’s my story and I’m sticking to it!
I just wanted to tell you both good luck; we’re all counting on you.