As for me, like afew, I started to follow the left US blogosphere since my return from California (TPM, Atrios, Steve Gilliard, ...) and I'm not sure how I did eventually stumbled upon here; most likely, from a link at DKOS, probably from Jerome: after all, what's more natural than a French guy reading a fellow French on a USian blog? Happens all the time... After some lurking, I did eventually roll up my sleeves and started commenting... Europeans think a hundred miles is a long way. Americans think a hundred years is a long time.
Well, I suppose I should feel honored that a comment of mine prompted you to start this discussion, but I'm mostly reassured: I'm not alone asking myself these kind of questions :)
Well, it's not pure, undiluted searching for the truth... I wanted to test my hypothesis that people migrate through links provided by other people at other network nodes.
That we draw from Booman and Kos isn't terribly surprising, of course, but the way we got a whole migration from Timesonline is interesting, because it suggests that the Booman/Kos umbilical chord is not unique, and that it's possible to recruit new talent from other fora if you have an integral presence there.
- Jake If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.
If we're allowed to do that on here. :)
It's unlikely that I would have ever started reading ET if it didn't run on Scoop. I can't stand the linear discussion forums that litter the web, and much prefer tree-ordered comment structures. Another requirement is that it has to run well enough on my web browser of choice: w3m. I think I found ET more or less randomly over time TBH. -- $E(X_t|F_s) = X_s,\quad t > s$
