April 11, 2005

The ecosystem awry?

Things haven't been updating normally over in the Truth Laid Bear ecosystem lately, but there's a reason. N.Z. Bear took some time off to get married. So best wishes to him and Mrs. Bear.

UPDATE: It may not just be Bear's temporary distraction. Poliblog speculates that the ecosystem is actually slowly dying, overburdened by profligate blogging.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Bear stops by the comments to this post. Look inside. And I do a separate post about it here.

3 comments:

Elayne said...

It's also possible that the Ecosystem has outlived its usefulness now that so many people are reading blogs via RSS feeds. The Ecosystem records blog "popularity" solely by Site Meter numbers.

Ann Althouse said...

Gerry: good one.

Elayne: A lot of bloggers are pretty obsessed with Site Meter numbers, so it's weird that these numbers don't count everything.

Ann Althouse said...

N.Z. Bear: Thanks for stopping in. I'm really glad to hear it. I'm doing a separate, new front-page post to call attention to this.