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    The McMaster Department of Philosophy has now put together the following notice commemorating Barry: Barry Allen: A Philosophical Life Barry…

This blog started 20 years ago today

You can see my remarks on the 14th anniversary (in the wake of the rise of the Wokerati in philosophy [see #6 in particular]) and the 10th.   The biggest change since 2017 (the 14th anniversary) has been the rise of Twitter, which now dominates social media in a way blogs did around the 10th anniversary of the blog.   If Twitter implodes (it's usage has been in decline, but it is still dominant), I doubt there will be a return to blogs as the primary social media outlet, but who really knows?  As I mentioned this past June, I am going to reduce my blogging schedule–a kind of long, phased retirement as it were–starting this September (I will continue, of course, my reduced summer blogging schedules, which I've utilized for a couple of years now).  Starting in September, I'll aim for new blog material at least 3 and maybe 4 days per week, but there will be fewer days with multiple postings, unlike in prior years.  Reader contributions of suggested links will still be very welcome, and I am grateful for the many reader contributions over the last two decades. 

The advertising rates will also be adjusted downwards by $100 per spot to reflect the lower activity:  top spots will be  $600 (instead of $700), 2nd from the top $500, and 3rd from the top $400.  I'll still offer 10% discount for bookings of three months or more.  Email me for information and to book spaces.  (Right now both top spots in September are taken, but there is at least one top spot open every month thereafter, as well as 2nd and 3rd spots.)   Unlike many blogs, my visitor statistic are public; even with my summer hiatuses, the blog is still running more than three million unique visits per year.  (This blog is not formatted to inflate "page view" by turning every visit to the blog into at least two page views, but even without that, page views continue to average more than four million per year.)  My guess is the adjustment to the blogging schedule may reduce blog traffic by 5-10% over the course of the (northern hemisphere) academic year. 

Thanks, as always, dear readers for your continued interest and support.

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