Agreed. Jay Reding has long been a great blogger, and his new re-branding and site re-design is rockin'.

150 a day ghetto?? I was happy to get there and now I found out it's a ghetto? Figures.

Hopefully I’ll soon upgrade to the 250 a day slum and eventually the 400 a day tenement!

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

There are a number of plateaux that bloggers seem to hit as they grow. At least, they're the ones that I remember.

For the first six months, I was probably around 8 visitors a day. Then I had a jump to around 30 a day, for a while. Then, after the '02 elections, with my first couple of instalanches, I moved up to 200 a day, and grew v e r y s l o w l y to around 400-500 a day in the Spring of '04.

Big jump after the show went on the air and through the election - and except for a huge surge in October and early November (up to 3-4,000 a day for a bit there) I've been holding fairly steady at around 2,000 a day.

A lot of blogs seem to get into the 100-250/day range a lot quicker than we used to back in the old days - but it seems to be harder to make the next big jump up.

So it's not a ghetto - just a plateau that seems very common these days. A lot of my favorite newer blogs are in that range right now. In a just world, Jay would be getting ten times his current traffic.

"In a just world, Jay would be getting ten times his current traffic."

...along with a tropical island and a fabulously wealthy supermodel who thinks I'm the greatest thing since sliced bread. :)

But in all seriousness, thanks for the compliments. I don't keep much tabs on my traffic - I blog because I enjoy it.

Besides, I get all the reward I need from Karl Rove's Secret War Profiteering Fund... um, wait, nevermind...