FYI, comments on all posts are turned off after 45 days. It’s an anti-spam measure.

Your comment here is welcome. And you are invited to treat this post as an open thread to comment on any specific archive post you like. Thanks for your interest. I would still be blogging here if more comments such as yours had been posted.

You are also invited to click on the “Iraq” category (or “Torture” category, or any other for that matter, or on the Iraq document collection). You’ll find a rich collection of links supporting the claims made in the op-eds on this site.

Again, thanks for taking the time to post your comment.

(As long as this thread stays active, comments will not close here.)

Visiting via Mike’s America. I thought I’d see some good repartee over here, and swung over for a visit.

Have a great day!

In the face of this reality, I dramatically reduced my blogging over the past two years and I’ve basically ignored blogging conventions that are supposed to (but did not) lead to high readership numbers.

Thus, now, I don’t link to many other blogs very often and virtually never email anyone about specific posts. I tried those tactics back in ‘03 and ‘04 and it didn’t matter that much. Atrios and Billmon each linked to me once or twice, Digby too, but….it just didn’t help. Frustration mounted.

These days I blog sporadically on whatever topic has caught my eye. Frankly, I use the blog as a place to retain a link for something I want to remember…and perhaps a quote I might use in my academic writing.

Maybe you could rethink what you want the blog to be. Catharsis? Prelude to a book? A personal notebook for anyone to read?

The overwhelming majority of my hits these days are random from google. Someone searches for topics important to me, so why not continue providing information that might influence some unknown student — or reader?

Adding to what I said in the previous comment, peacecast.us will be active and better than ever. I have decided to continue with the type of podcast that has been featured there, and also expand into a few areas that may in the past have appeared at Deep Blade: nature photography, opinion/oped pieces, event video (usually You Tube links), occasional TV news clips.

As of Wed. June 27, I really have peacecast.us stripped down to its bottoms with a new theme installed. I’ll be working on restoring archives and posting podcasts there for the next few days.

Alas, I still blog…

Thanks for all your insightful and passionate work over the years. I have learned a lot from you, and while I understand your decision — amateur blogging is hard, thankless work, and there may indeed be more effective forms of resistance — I will miss Deep Blade Journal. Best wishes on all your other endeavors. Our loss will be their gain.

Jonathan

I am sorry you have made this decision. I’m sure this blog was an enormous effort and I can’t thank you enough for providing me with perspectives that made me think and helped me to develop my own opinions about the world. I didn’t always agree with you as you know but I found your entries wonderful and enlightening. Keep sending me things that you find informative. I often forward them to my colleagues and friends.