Blog number 53,800,001

~ Andrew Norton

Technorati claims to be tracking 53.8 million blogs, so I am not exactly a trendsetter in establishing my own blog. But through my years at Catallaxy I can make some claim to be a veteran Australian blogger, and I hope some of the people who read me there might read me here – and that my pro-civility comments policy will encourage ‘lurkers’ who were put off commenting there by the less-than-perfect manners of a few of the regulars to do so here. Aside from that, I expect my posts here to be similar in subject and style to my Catallaxy posts. There are a couple below, one of which is an updated version of a guest post I wrote at Stephen Kirchner’s Institutional Economics.

I’m still struggling with the technology – I have already seen more than my fair share of ‘500 internal server error’ (whatever that means) messages – and haven’t figured out how to get the comments sidebar going. But I hope the site’s appearance will improve over time.

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33 thoughts on “Blog number 53,800,001”

  2. I’ve just placed this site in my Favourites (under Bloogers – Australian). Looking forward to your posts, Andrew. I’ve noted your comments policy and I will “try” to behave myself – Homer permitting!

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  3. This is a further test of your comments field, I do hope it works. If it does, please feel free to delete it in the interests of comments field aesthetics.

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  4. Man. You live in Carlton?

    They told me never to go to North Carlton. And I didn’t listen and I regretted it. But they told me never to go to North Fitzroy for much the same reasons.

    Actually the person who told me that probably still lives in Carlton.

    Ex-Rock-Climber extraordinairre Charlie Crease.

    I lived in Carlton for awhile.

    Superb place but for the people.

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  5. Nice to see that you have set up a new blog! I am sure that you will be missed at Catallaxy! Look forward to reading your posts!

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  6. Good luck Andrew I have always enjoyed – or been stimulated by – your posts – but now another blog to check out! I agree with your views on comments.

    Best wishes, Harry Clarke.

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  19. In the old days, people used to have a house-warming party.
    Now it seems we need the institution of a blog-warming party.
    ole!

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  25. Andrew, I’m really glad you struck out on your own. With the rise of RSS, aggregation may not be so necessary.

    A few random suggestions on tech stuff, from someone who probably knows even less html than you.
    * I’d recommend installing the following WordPress plugins: Simple Recent Comments, Subscribe2, Akismet, and WordPress Database Backup.
    * In the header, you might think about more contrasty colours (blue on blue is very royal, but…).
    * Why not just “Andrew Norton”? (‘s blog probably not necessary).
    * Surely we deserve to see a mugshot, so you can be readily identified as you sip your Carlton latte?

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  26. Andrew – I notice you have a new mugshot. I should get one , though getting it on the site would give me another technical headache. I will try to do some site upgrading next week and will take the other suggestions into account.

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  27. Andrew,

    My apologies for being late to your blog warming (though I did bring champagne!!). You know how pleased I am about this- now I can get my regular fix of analytical views and be outraged at least once a month! I agree with Andrew Leigh about the blue on blue…
    M

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  28. Andrew! Nice to see that the move hasn’t slowed up the steady flow of excellent and thoughtful ditties.

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  30. Andrew

    The civility policy is essential – many sites like this are blocked by non-personally owned computers (such as the one I am compelled to use), because some ##%^$&# cannot refrain from using coarse language.

    Please continue !

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