Comments on: Goodbye to the Port and Brandy http://crookedtimber.org/2008/01/02/goodbye-to-the-port-and-brandy/ Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made Sun, 27 May 2012 03:55:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: bad Jim http://crookedtimber.org/2008/01/02/goodbye-to-the-port-and-brandy/comment-page-1/#comment-223335 bad Jim Thu, 03 Jan 2008 05:00:53 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2008/01/02/goodbye-to-the-port-and-brandy/#comment-223335 I liked the Bad Astronomer's <a href="http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2008/01/02/my-new-years-resolution/" rel="nofollow">New Year's Resolution:</a> <blockquote>About one arcminute, with my glasses on.</blockquote> I liked the Bad Astronomer’s New Year’s Resolution:

About one arcminute, with my glasses on.

]]> By: a very public sociologist http://crookedtimber.org/2008/01/02/goodbye-to-the-port-and-brandy/comment-page-1/#comment-223313 a very public sociologist Wed, 02 Jan 2008 22:57:38 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2008/01/02/goodbye-to-the-port-and-brandy/#comment-223313 Resolutions? I've made a few relating to blogging (last year nearly all mine went awry). Here's a couple: Accept you're never going to keep up with someone who blogs full time, like Iain Dale. Aim for a more modest posting schedule, like every other day. You really don't want to end up repeating the middle chunk of last year and losing the audience you've built up through burn out. Try and get more balance to the topics you write about. At the moment the audience is made up of other left activists and academic/sociology types. The challenge is to make the more political posts, however navel-gazing they may be, interesting to the latter and the stuff on sociology attractive to the former. Get myself on the Crooked Timber blogroll ;) Resolutions? I’ve made a few relating to blogging (last year nearly all mine went awry). Here’s a couple:

Accept you’re never going to keep up with someone who blogs full time, like Iain Dale. Aim for a more modest posting schedule, like every other day. You really don’t want to end up repeating the middle chunk of last year and losing the audience you’ve built up through burn out.

Try and get more balance to the topics you write about. At the moment the audience is made up of other left activists and academic/sociology types. The challenge is to make the more political posts, however navel-gazing they may be, interesting to the latter and the stuff on sociology attractive to the former.

Get myself on the Crooked Timber blogroll ;)

]]> By: The Navigator http://crookedtimber.org/2008/01/02/goodbye-to-the-port-and-brandy/comment-page-1/#comment-223283 The Navigator Wed, 02 Jan 2008 20:28:54 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2008/01/02/goodbye-to-the-port-and-brandy/#comment-223283 Ah, Christy's a grand fellow. I'm delighted to see him here on CT. But of course Delirium Tremens is just a song he uses as a vehicle for social satire. For a really fantastic song that's actually about alcohol (specifically, a dead moonshiner), check out McIlhatton. Ah, Christy’s a grand fellow. I’m delighted to see him here on CT. But of course Delirium Tremens is just a song he uses as a vehicle for social satire. For a really fantastic song that’s actually about alcohol (specifically, a dead moonshiner), check out McIlhatton.

]]> By: B.Ennis http://crookedtimber.org/2008/01/02/goodbye-to-the-port-and-brandy/comment-page-1/#comment-223198 B.Ennis Wed, 02 Jan 2008 05:51:38 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2008/01/02/goodbye-to-the-port-and-brandy/#comment-223198 Thanks for turning me onto this guy. Mine would be to do more for others! Thanks for turning me onto this guy.

Mine would be to do more for others!

]]> By: aisling http://crookedtimber.org/2008/01/02/goodbye-to-the-port-and-brandy/comment-page-1/#comment-223197 aisling Wed, 02 Jan 2008 05:17:08 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2008/01/02/goodbye-to-the-port-and-brandy/#comment-223197 LOL ! Happy New Year ! LOL ! Happy New Year !

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