State of the Blog Report

I note with pleasure that this week, for the first time in the semester, we had an 87.5% participation rate (that is, seven out of eight of you contributed at least the minimum, stretching a little for some posts that weren't up on Friday). What starts to happen at this level of contribution is that some of the threads generate a little energy, good questions get followed up with thoughtful insights from various perspectives, and each of us can easily find threads that intrigue or annoy us enough to stimulate comments and responses. Some really good questions didn't get explored much (or at all), but they might well have had they gone up a little earlier -- and there's still time!