{"id":384,"date":"2003-03-31T23:08:42","date_gmt":"2003-04-01T03:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=384"},"modified":"2007-03-17T10:48:09","modified_gmt":"2007-03-17T14:48:09","slug":"the-glick-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/?p=384","title":{"rendered":"The Glick List"},"content":{"rendered":"

My sister commented a while back, apropos of my post on What Makes Sammy Run?<\/span><\/a>, that bloggers may be self-selectedly low-Glick. Perhaps, but Glick is relative, and the blogosphere\u00e2\u201e\u00a2<\/a> has its share of canny self-promoters, like anywhere else. Some examples? Glad you asked.<\/p>\n

10. InstaPundit<\/a>. Glenn Reynolds certainly deserves his traffic — well, most of it — well, some of it, anyway. Reynolds is always telling reporters who call him for a story on blogging that they shouldn’t write about him, they should write about all the bloggers on his roll instead, yet somehow they always wind up writing about him. Oops.<\/p>\n

9. Howard Owens<\/a>. I just can’t snark at a guy who auctioned an opinion on EBay, for $10.25. Sorry.<\/p>\n

8. Arthur Silber<\/a>. Arthur is the master of the strategic temper tantrum. He quits every three months or so, either out of Weltschmerz<\/i> or desperate financial straits, waits for his readers to beg him to return, and reenters the fray a few days later — and by the way, don’t forget to click on that Paypal icon, over there on the top left. Can you call someone a drama queen if he’s gay?<\/p>\n

7. Stephen Green<\/a>. Green’s in it for love, not money. Leads the league in “I’ve got nothing to say because I’m closing on my new condo\/my Internet’s out\/I’m hung over” posts.<\/p>\n

6. DailyPundit<\/a>. It’s Death Race 2000, your mouse vs. the popup ads, when you hit Bill Quick’s site. Quick was the motive force behind the short-lived and unlamented subscription group blog, whose moniker I’ve already forgotten, promising “premium” content on the business model that worked so brilliantly for Salon<\/span>. Yes, he coined<\/a> the term “blogosphere.” Yes!<\/p>\n

5. A Small Victory<\/a>. Michele, one L, but two tits, which she doesn’t hesitate to use. Michele’s specialty is getting herself delinked, and then making enough of a stink about it that she gains ten new links for the one she just lost.<\/p>\n

4. Hesiod “Theogeny”<\/a>. A sort of bush-league Atrios who literally can’t spell his own name. Same m.o., less traffic.<\/p>\n

3. The Agonist<\/a>. “Thoughtful, global, timely” — one out of three ain’t bad. The guy sure posts a lot of war news, I’ll say that much. Where he finds time to suck up to all<\/a> those<\/a> reporters<\/a> is anybody’s guess.<\/p>\n

2. Pejman<\/a>. I used to link to Pejman, because everybody links to Pejman. Then I began to wonder why I never read Pejman. It finally dawned on me that Pejman never has anything interesting to say. It’s neocon boilerplate, spiced with not-exactly-scintillating personal details and frequent forays into Bartlett’s<\/span>. Starting from nothing, Pejman has become one of the most widely linked, if rarely read, blogs in the universe, parlaying the fact into a Tech Central Station<\/a> gig to boot. Never has a blogger done so much with so little.<\/p>\n

1. Atrios<\/a>. Posts early, posts often, posts wrong, and never, never<\/em> apologizes. Coyly remains anonymous to encourage rumors that he’s actually some sort of big-shot politico who needs to preserve his cover. Bloggers link Atrios mostly to mock him, but they link him. As I just did. <\/p>\n

(Update:<\/b> Number 3, the Agonist, cops to plagiarism<\/a>, a tactic with which Glick himself was intimately familiar. Link, to be fair, courtesy of #10<\/a>.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My sister commented a while back, apropos of my post on What Makes Sammy Run?, that bloggers may be self-selectedly low-Glick. Perhaps, but Glick is relative, and the blogosphere\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 has its share of canny self-promoters, like anywhere else. Some examples? Glad you asked. 10. InstaPundit. Glenn Reynolds certainly deserves his traffic — well, most of […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-21-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}