CALL ME MAGGIE

Larval Subjects has been fairly successful in the 6 years that it has existed.  It is now approaching 3 million visits.  It grew to this size from about 100 visits a day.  These days it receives about 2,500 hundred visits a day.  How did that happen?  I honestly don’t know.  I do, however, have some hypotheses.

First, the don’ts.

1)  Don’t be an academic.  If your blog entries have footnotes you have a problem.  Blog entries are not conference papers nor articles.  They are meant to be occasional and an alternative to the tight suits of academia.  If you have footnotes in your post, you’re basically saying that you accept the conference/article paradigm of interaction.  You’ve missed the entire point.  It’s one thing to put page number references in parentheses, but c’mon, are you so identified with the academy that you feel the need to use footnotes on a…