Looking a little more into blog readership declines.

I’ll be honest: I’m not really all that into blogging about this Bloggasm article on relative losses in political blogs’ readership since October 2008, for a few reasons.  First off, I’m not particularly convinced that the sample is relevant: if you look at the list, yes, most of the major ones are on there – but are they really representative?  It’s been years since my last statistics class, but I can tell that there’s one heck of a selection bias going on in there.  Second: there is no universe where Andrew Sullivan is ‘right of center,’ sorry.  For that matter, Ann Althouse barely qualifies.

Third – and this is why I’m putting this up; some people that I privately showed the chart below the fold to insisted that I should – I think that it’s probably more significant to look at yearly trends anyway. Continue reading Looking a little more into blog readership declines.