THANKS FOR CLICKING!: This was

THANKS FOR CLICKING!: This was a busy week for the blog — more than 15,000 unique visits. Thanks to Andrew Sullivan, Glenn Reynolds, and Mickey Kaus for the generous links. Even though I study political science, this was a rare week when I actually felt engaged in politics. Kaus correctly warns against the “revival of ...

By , a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and co-host of the Space the Nation podcast.

THANKS FOR CLICKING!: This was a busy week for the blog -- more than 15,000 unique visits. Thanks to Andrew Sullivan, Glenn Reynolds, and Mickey Kaus for the generous links. Even though I study political science, this was a rare week when I actually felt engaged in politics. Kaus correctly warns against the "revival of 'blogger triumphalism.'" [Didn't you commit this sin less that 24 hours ago?--ed. Irony does not travel well in the blogosphere. Despite InstaPundit's musings, my memos to Rove were likely epiphenomenal, i.e., had no effect on what actually transpired. But aren't White House and congressional types perusing your blog?--ed. That's what Sitemeter tells me -- but that could be the unpaid interns surfing the web.] That said, go back to Howard Kurtz's Tuesday column, and you'll see that the Blogosphere kept the story on life support for enough news cycles to cross over to the old media -- "if the establishment press is largely yawning, the situation is very different online."

THANKS FOR CLICKING!: This was a busy week for the blog — more than 15,000 unique visits. Thanks to Andrew Sullivan, Glenn Reynolds, and Mickey Kaus for the generous links. Even though I study political science, this was a rare week when I actually felt engaged in politics. Kaus correctly warns against the “revival of ‘blogger triumphalism.'” [Didn’t you commit this sin less that 24 hours ago?–ed. Irony does not travel well in the blogosphere. Despite InstaPundit’s musings, my memos to Rove were likely epiphenomenal, i.e., had no effect on what actually transpired. But aren’t White House and congressional types perusing your blog?–ed. That’s what Sitemeter tells me — but that could be the unpaid interns surfing the web.] That said, go back to Howard Kurtz’s Tuesday column, and you’ll see that the Blogosphere kept the story on life support for enough news cycles to cross over to the old media — “if the establishment press is largely yawning, the situation is very different online.”

Daniel W. Drezner is a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and co-host of the Space the Nation podcast. Twitter: @dandrezner

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