Housekeeping

If anybody's wondering about the Dynamic View out the window here, that's a Blogger alternative that has not been adopted by any of the bloggers I read—I have a hard time finding any at all—that has some childish and perhaps not so childish advantages over the normal formats.

One thing is that it blows one's reader numbers sky high, at least in its own Blogger world. I do not actually believe I have that many readers (normal blog statistics counters indicate that it has a real effect,  but not like this). But even though I think the charts must be fictional I love looking at them. The other is writerly vanity: I like the display of old posts all the way back to forever—the little literary bits that could have had a better audience than they did at the time they were written and are now more accessible to rediscovery.

The last time I tried it, though, it would not work with the StatCounter device (which gives me a truer picture of what a tiny, select crew you really are) and I hated the way the individual posts looked, with a wide page and tons of white space, like twee remarks on very expensive notepaper, simultaneously amateurish and unbloggy. But the StatCounter problem has now been resolved and I find that this particular Sidebar view narrows the page to make it look more like a blog in the traditional sense, so I'm trying it again.

If you hate it, you know where you can say so—here's some thread: