Hear the Clarion Call!

Finally, after six months of blogging, we’re seeing a real debate break out around a blog. And who would have thought it would be my little Clarion Call weekly column blog that would catch fire? Yesterday I set a new record for traffic to that blog, and as of this morning we have 8 comments posted under this week’s column. (O.K., three of those are mine, but there are four others who have ventured to add their thoughts!)

This is what I hoped would happen when I ventured into the blogosphere last March, but it has been very slow to get started. The pressure of the upcoming election and the impending public hearing, however, has shown the value of a blog as a place to vent and express your opinions.

Of course, that still leaves a huge number of you lurking in the background without expressing your thoughts. All my web statistics tell me there are hundreds of you out there reading these blogs on a regular basis, but there are probably no more than a dozen that have ever posted a comment on any of the four blogs.

As Mr. Lamb and Kurt Cylke have proven, I don’t censor comments just because I may not agree with them or they are critical of me. As moderator, I have decided to be as liberal as possible in allowing comments, although I sometimes will not post a comment that is simply repetitive of something the same person has already said.

There’s really no excuse not to get involved since I also allow anonymous comments, although I do reserve the right to trace your electronic footprint and hunt you down like a dog!

P.S. Some of the increase in traffic to this blog (which also set a new record yesterday) can be traced to a nice letter about my campaign web site from Jean Lindsay that was published in the LC News this week. Thanks Jean! The letter is also posted on my campaign site here.