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[The Rutgers Ag Farm pigs in 1968]<\/p>\n
Regular reader of this blog Emil Rojas asks:<\/p>\n
Question<\/b> “I'm wondering why you don't allow responses on a per article basis on your blog like most blogs? Your blog is definitely more interesting then most, and it would be cool to see what people are thinking in response to the great stuff you are putting out. I think you would attract more readers if they could respond, after all most people just want to hear themselves talk :-)”<\/i><\/p>\n
Answer<\/b> I had the responses turned on for awhile, but there were very few of them, and it was bumming me out to look for them and find none. I kind of like just posting the blog and then forgetting about it, as opposed to hovering over it to see if there's any reaction.<\/p>\n
In such situations I always remember the pigs at the Rutgers Agricultural School Farm that Sylvia and I would go look at when we were in grad school there. The pigs' food was placed into a little metal box with a slanting roof that they'd push up with their snout. So all day long the pigs are checking to see if there's food, and you're hearing this lonely clank<\/i> of the all-too-empty food box. I think of those pigs when I check for physical mail in my metal mailbox, also when I check for non-existent email, or for comments<\/i> — and there aren't any.<\/p>\n
But, what the heck, I can turn the comments on for awhile, and just not worry<\/i> about them. What a concept. Comments are now ACTIVATED<\/b>!<\/p>\n
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[The Rutgers Ag Farm pigs in 1968]<\/p>\n
Emil also asks:<\/p>\n
Question<\/b> “I'm also curious how big your readership is, and the number of responses would give some idea.”<\/i><\/p>\n
Answer<\/b> Thanks to the excellent support system of Monkeybrains<\/a>, I know that in January, 2005, the site www.rudyrucker.com averaged some 6,000 hits per day, coming from about 400 vistors a day. (Each visitor produces some 15 hits as various images and style sheets are downloaded to build the visible pages.)<\/p>\n My most popular page is the blog, the second most popular is the notes on how I wrote my book As Above, So Below: A Novel of Peter Bruegel<\/i><\/a>, and third most popular is the page describing my forthcoming nonfiction book, The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n Regular reader of this blog Emil Rojas asks: Question “I'm wondering why you don't allow responses on a per article basis on your blog like most blogs? Your blog is definitely more interesting then most, and it would be cool to see what people are thinking in response to the great stuff you are putting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/rudy68.jpg\")
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[Rudy at Rutgers in 1968.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"