Econ Blog Traffic
Holy snikes! I just saw this traffic comparo (via an L.A.Times article, mostly about Marginal Revolution) about econ blog traffic.
Apparently BP is on of the top econ traffic getters:
Economists who author blogs are drawing fans who see nothing dismal about the discipline.:
"This interest in the topic translates to blog traffic. Of the top 100 sites in the blogosphere, four or five are about economics, said Brian Gongol, a small-business owner who compiles blog ratings and is an econo-blogger himself. That alone is surprising.
Greenspan aside, economists are rarely well-known among the public. Ever heard of Ludwig von Mises?
The blogs aren't limited to economists at name-brand universities, either. Gongol estimates that four of the top 10 (including his) aren't even written by academics. He writes his in his Des Moines house, far from the centers of academia — when he's not too busy doing his "real" job selling water-treatment equipment.
Indeed, blogging doesn't seem to be the kind of activity that an economics textbook would endorse. A cost-benefit analysis might conclude that the economist pours time into a blog and gets little or no financial reward. Few blogs, for example, have ads to generate revenue. It would follow, then, that the most prominent economists would lose the most from blogging. But not all economists concur that time spent blogging is a waste."
Pretty cool!
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Source:
Now online: slide-rule celebrities
Alana Semuels
L.A. Times, November 23, 2006
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-econoblogs23nov23,0,4172561.story?
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Nice!
Posted by: metroplexual | Nov 29, 2006 2:39:25 PM
More well deserved recognition!
I don't know how you find the time to do this AND your day job!
rt
Posted by: rtalcott | Nov 29, 2006 2:47:29 PM
The King!
Posted by: Bob A | Nov 29, 2006 3:13:02 PM
Where's DeLong?
Posted by: David Yaseen | Nov 29, 2006 3:16:44 PM
I can't find out how where to send this, so I'll try this method.
I recently did a Google search, and one of the hits was one of your pages. Unfortunately, there were about 500 items (graphics?) to download, so it took a couple of minutes. Then, after waiting all that time, I went to "find" and searched for a word. The task took 100% of my CPU resources, and would not stop searching. The task manager just said "not responding", and so I had to force-quit IE.
Hence, please break up your webpages into smaller blocks so the download and "find" times are quicker, and the browser does not crash!
Thank you.
Posted by: User | Nov 29, 2006 3:58:47 PM
User... you might want to check the polarity of the flux capacitor on your motherboard, it could be out of tune. When mine is, it feels like 1998 all over again.
Posted by: Aaron | Nov 29, 2006 4:37:51 PM
User --
This page is not heavy.
Documents (1 file) 12 kb
Images (45 files) 267 kb
Style Sheets (1 file) 5 kb
Total 295 kb
USAToday's home page is more:
339 kb
Posted by: MAS (San Diego) | Nov 29, 2006 4:40:55 PM
Congrats, 23,000 pageviews is huge! Welcome to the bigtime!
Posted by: tom | Nov 29, 2006 4:47:04 PM
congrats !!!!
well deserved
Posted by: jj | Nov 29, 2006 5:03:40 PM
User,
Here's your problem:
"The task manager just said "not responding", and so I had to force-quit IE."
My Rx: Firefox. ;)
Posted by: bodanker | Nov 29, 2006 5:40:57 PM
What all the good comments said.
Posted by: me | Nov 29, 2006 6:58:01 PM
Barry,
Time to sell out to MSN.finance for a cool $10 million in stock.
Posted by: ari5000 | Nov 29, 2006 10:59:23 PM
I'm surprised Roubini didn't show up on the list.
Posted by: tman | Nov 29, 2006 11:13:36 PM
How big are you? -- You bumped NYT to become my friggin' homepage, dude. No higher compliment in WWW.
Posted by: livefreeordieslow | Nov 29, 2006 11:47:31 PM
'I'm surprised Roubini didn't show up on the list.'
I think its only blog with public stat counters attached to them that make the list.
And congrats to BP on making the top spot. Marginal Revolution comes in at a deserved second, but I prefer BP for its market focus.
Posted by: Caravaggio | Nov 30, 2006 7:34:09 AM
Barry, very well done. I'm a retired economist who now trades regularly in stocks, ETF's, bonds, and currencies - and I appreciate the fresh approach that takes into account the vagaries of psychology. Thanks again.
Posted by: OldVet | Nov 30, 2006 3:22:52 PM
frankly speaking, i knew here by the article=)
Posted by: astraea | Dec 1, 2006 7:59:59 AM
