Pop question:

Okay, everybody’s happy that Ed’s aboard.

Who was the saddest person upon hearing the news?

Since Ed’s words will be the same over here, what’s the one thing we’ll miss most with Captain’s Quarters’ absence?

Day by Day.

I imagine Chris Muir wasn’t pleased with the news at all. The thing is, while I see it on a lot of sites, it’s usually bunched up into one frame and you have to (gasp) manually scoot your way through it. Not only is it a bother, but something gets lost when you can’t read it in one swoop. It cost Ed a ton of some of his site’s most valuable real estate, but he gets credit for displaying it correctly.

I’m sure Chris knows all the above, and was probably crushed to hear he was losing one of the few full-panel displays. A lot of bloggers subscribe to the strip, but it was probably being read more on CQ.

As far as Ed coming over here, I appear to be the one voice of dissent. I was truly shocked and disheartened at the news. I imagine some of the CQ gang was, too. Ed’s going from being a beacon of intellectual light to a site where they use Dude as the headline for every fourth article?

Is the HotAir crowd ready to read nineteen paragraphs on the inner workings of the Pakistani government?

Ed’s an essayist, and we wouldn’t have it any other way, but what we like here are two insightful paragraphs of lead-in, then cut to the video. Putting someone who writes in depth into the mix seems a bit odd, but I suppose Michelle feels it’ll add another dimension to the site; pushing it in the direction of RealClearPolitics.

Most of all, though, I was sad to see another single blogger go down. We lost Dean Barnett last summer, then Ace turned his place into Fark II, and now TigerHawk’s got three guest bloggers, one of them quite active, and is headed down the same path of non-identity. Worse, all three of them love writing about the most boring subject in the Central Galaxy — economics — so, over the past few months, the site’s gone from being “Tiger’s blog” to “The TigerHawk Economic (and sometimes political) Co-Blogorium.”

Hmph.

On the other hand, Ed’s gone through a lot over the past few years. There’s his wife’s medical problems, the time the blog takes up, the pressure of having to be smart on a daily basis, dealing with spammers, and all the behind-the-scenes things it takes to keep a web site running — and that’s not counting all of life’s normal little nightmares, like equipment failure, car problems, leaky roofs, and all the rest.

So, although I feel the RW blogosphere has taken a real loss, I’m happy that Ed will be able to kick back a little, leave the driving to Greyhound, and revisit the joy that caused him to get into blogging in the first place.

Dr. Mercury on February 25, 2008 at 3:48 PM