It is always hard to look into the future, especially the future of a blog.
We got a phone call yesterday that suggests that some other conservative bloggers may not be getting the traffic that they did when we were running the sweep. We were a bit surprised because our traffic has not changed enough for us to notice. There are two automated systems out there which we thought would take up the slack if we stopped. Apparently, they do not.
Our goal has always been to help conservative bloggers. We are going to try to figure out how to restart the sweep with a goal of restarting it in late June. Our life is jam-packed until then.
Doing the sweep is an enormous burden if one person does it alone.
We will need to find several folks who are willing to help on a regular basis. Many hands make light work. The sweep ran and will run six days a week. We would like to find at least five other reliable and trustworthy folks who will be willing to do one sweep a week and more when others have social engagements and are otherwise occupied.
This news is too new for us to say how it will impact our other blogging projects.
We have one project that we do want to put very high on our priorities, higher than blogging. We have promised others that beginning in July we will work to put a 2010 initiative on the ballot that both protects the public from unethical judges and lawyers and provides a mechanism for members of the the public to be made whole when misconduct occurs. Neither of those protections currently exist. Legislators, including Republican legislators, have proven reluctant to provide them. The situation is exactly what the initiative process is designed to correct.
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