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[murstein]

A few years ago, several folks tried to encourage me to make a standalone web site/blog, where I would comment on economics and politics, and how they relate. At the time, I didn't have any more focus than "What I'm thinking about today," which would make it indistinguishable from 100,000 or so other blogs on political economy, so I declined

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[etumukutenyak]

My Dad -- an economics professor for years -- used to write a column for the local newspaper. He found that a lot of people liked his columns, but he had to come up with the "questions" for his columns. You may end up with the same issue -- your blog posts are well-written and well-researched, but will anyone provide enough feedback? Worth a try, no?

[murstein]

I can find "what is widely misunderstood" just by reading political news. That's likely to provide subject matter for a year or longer.

What's more problematic, is whether I can generate enough readership to be worth the effort. Thus my question about passing links along.

[stormdog]

I don't understand macroeconomics well enough to have intelligent opinions on it. I do enjoy reading what you post about the subject from time to time and would keep reading your thoughts. It's hard for those thoughts to be deeply meaningful to me when I feel like I don't have enough background understanding to judge them at all objectively, but they are interesting.

Whether I'd go to another blog or read articles specifically on that topic, I'm not sure. And I feel bad saying so, but it's hard for me to insert new input streams into my habitual viewing (it took my years to add Facebook and Twiter to my daily rounds).

[murstein]

Oh, I understand about adding to the habitual reading list. I find additions shove something else off, usually.

If there was a sentence-or-two blurb on LJ, and a link, would you follow, at least when the blurb sounded interesting? (I know people who have a principled-to-them rejection of the concept of following links. You don't seem that type, but I don't understand that principle.)

[stormdog]

Sorry for the delay; life has been busy.

Yeah, I follow links if they look interesting. I just open them in a new tab and come back to them later on if I don't want to lose track of what I'm doing. Some people don't seem to realize that Windows is called Windows because you can have more than one!

[entipy]

I think it's definitely worth doing. Even if you didn't begin with a ton of readers, your base could grow - quickly. :) I would definitely stick the RSS into my Google Reader feed.