tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048715035467766557.post5983841477663140218..comments2024-03-03T04:40:39.492-05:00Comments on Fire Megan McArdle: Megan and I are communicatingbradhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06907349163323395529noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048715035467766557.post-23929484435156847162008-09-05T12:52:00.000-04:002008-09-05T12:52:00.000-04:00One of the most important rules for a lot of polit...One of the most important rules for a lot of political bloggers is an overestimation of both importance and readership.<BR/><BR/>I doubt her numbers are as low as 100-200, but it can't be more than a couple thousand at the most generous guess.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048715035467766557.post-39480603836073390622008-09-05T11:34:00.000-04:002008-09-05T11:34:00.000-04:00She's spent six years building a readership of how...She's spent six years building a readership of how many people- 100? 200? <BR/><BR/>Until I started reading Sullivan's blog and investigated the other "voices" at the Atlantic I'd never heard of her. Which come to think of made my life a less dominated by banality. Can I return to that happy state? Is there a way you can unknow Megan McCardle?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048715035467766557.post-91929785463440306922008-09-05T10:54:00.000-04:002008-09-05T10:54:00.000-04:00If you want a wider audience for your invective, t...<I>If you want a wider audience for your invective, then figure out what that audience wants to read, and write it, if you can.</I><BR/><BR/>Cool. Megan's philosophy in a nutshell: Comfort the comfortable and afflict the afflicted.Susan of Texashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048715035467766557.post-41222751327028322752008-09-05T09:47:00.000-04:002008-09-05T09:47:00.000-04:00Anon - you think that's lucid? The whole time I w...Anon - you think that's lucid? The whole time I was reading it, the only thought I had was "christ, even in e-mails she writes like shit."<BR/><BR/>"You are perfectly free to continue your criticism."<BR/><BR/>Gee, thanks for your permission, Megan. No shit, I'm perfectly free, you condescending idiot. <BR/><BR/>If she says she doesn't read this site, she is lying. There's no arguing with that. Sorry for being presumptuous, but even someone without an ego as enormous as hers would not be able to resist regularly checking in on "yousuck.com."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048715035467766557.post-73225389550147798892008-09-05T07:44:00.000-04:002008-09-05T07:44:00.000-04:00Pure speculation, but I think Megan will be gone f...Pure speculation, but I think Megan will be gone from the Atlantic in the near future. The blogs there are generating little to no advertising (nearly all the ads are "house" ads for the Atlantic itself). They are spending a lot of money and have little to show for it. I wouldn't be surprised at all if they winnowed the bloggers down to 3 or 4, and Sullivan and Fallows are guaranteed to stay because they are the biggest names and produce a lot of material for the print magazine.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048715035467766557.post-11206445466655319682008-09-05T01:49:00.000-04:002008-09-05T01:49:00.000-04:00GAAAAAAHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHOHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...GAAAAAAHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHOHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHOAdam Eli Clemhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08779416210584562444noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048715035467766557.post-37062197086197491952008-09-05T00:44:00.000-04:002008-09-05T00:44:00.000-04:00Well, I suspect she at least occasionally stops in...Well, I suspect she at least occasionally stops in, Spencer, as evidenced by hits from wherever she's on vacation while she's there, but those hypothetically could just be from people who just met her and Googled her soon after.bradhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06907349163323395529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048715035467766557.post-11745201655042981152008-09-05T00:26:00.000-04:002008-09-05T00:26:00.000-04:00BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH...BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAdam Eli Clemhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08779416210584562444noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048715035467766557.post-91367371092430322312008-09-04T23:56:00.000-04:002008-09-04T23:56:00.000-04:00She's lying when she says she doesn't spend any ti...She's lying when she says she doesn't spend any time reading or thinking about this blog. But oh, how she wishes it were true.spencerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01770056727940292951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2048715035467766557.post-15499754319111482372008-09-04T21:23:00.000-04:002008-09-04T21:23:00.000-04:00When Megan gets passionate she gets (I never thoug...When Megan gets passionate she gets (I never thought I'd say this about her writing style) lucid.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com