On a day with four blog posts (and followed by a day with two more), econblogger Mark Thoma wrote:
Every once in awhile I [Thoma] kind of need a bit of a break . . . I ran out of energy a few weeks ago . . . I’ll do my best until then, daily links at least somehow and short “echo” posts as usual, but I doubt I’ll have time to say much myself . . . [There’s a reason I haven’t missed a day posting to the blog in over eight years. When I first started, I was afraid that if I missed a day new readers would bail out . . . I realize a missed day won’t kill the blog at this point, but it’s still important to me to keep posting every day.]
What I do is post once a day; when I write new posts, I schedule them for the future. I currently have approx 2-month lag. Sometimes I post 2 or 3 times in one day, if I have something topical or just something I feel like posting on. Overall, though, I find a benefit to the lag. Posts that are less topical (not tied to the news or to a current online discussion) have more of a chance to stand on their own.
Thoma’s blog is different from mine; much of its influence comes from him being on top of current debates. Still, I think some lag would be fine. Among other things, it would remind people of important discussions from one or two months ago.
Brad DeLong does this with posts that revisit issues, including whether his beliefs were right or wrong. He can fit these in when …
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I stepped outside my usual blogging to address an article in Science which I saw today. It doesn’t pass the smell test to me:
http://www.entsophy.net/blog/?p=112
What’s interesting is that I believe they likely did find a correlation and the two variables are causally related, but I still seriously doubt their main conclusion.