A typical Monday (at least in recent weeks) will have about 5,000 visits to the blog, but yesterday it topped 12,000 (an all-time high for a single day), as dozens of blogs linked to the item from Sunday about Wieseltier’s embarrassingly ignorant review of Dennett, including several highly trafficked sites–DeLong, Yglesisas, Pharyngula, and, most importantly in terms of traffic, Atrios, which single-handedly sent over 5,000 visitors yesterday, and looks to send several thousand more today.  Will any of these folks come back again?  We’ll see…

I hope readers have been enjoying the group blog format as much as I have been–and not only because it has given me essential time to do other work.  I quite enjoy being surprised at "what’s new" at my own site, and I appreciate the distinctive voices and perspectives of the four other contributors (so far, Marcus has been missing in action, alas).  I’d be interested to hear from readers what they think of the experiment so far.  Maybe it should be extended, assuming I can cajole my busy colleagues into hanging around?