The Palgrave Econolog seems to have been frozen since June 16. I shouldn't complain, since this blog is also frozen as ranked 8th out of 456 economics and finance blogs, which is really good, and better than we've ever been, I think.
But I do wish the Palgrave would re-start, even if it does mean we slip in the rankings. It's a good place to find out what other bloggers are talking about, and see who has linked to us recently. Plus, that ranking, as a sort of citation count of links from other blogs, is one of the few ways we have of measuring our impact. Citation counts are flawed of course (they might be linking to me just to say how wrong I am), but I don't think they are any more flawed for blogs than for journal articles.
I think yours is the best Canadian blog. On any subject.
(Question: is that good or bad? I wish there was higher competition!)
Posted by: crf | June 30, 2010 at 03:08 PM
I think it's bad; there are smarter voices than those here on WCI that are not being made public.
I was going to say "not being heard", but that's not quite right: they are being heard by policy-makers.
Posted by: Stephen Gordon | June 30, 2010 at 04:10 PM
Well thank god the invisible smart people are being heard by the policy makers. I always knew the grown ups would take care of our best interests behind the scenes. I'm going to stop worrying now.
Posted by: K | June 30, 2010 at 04:34 PM
Où se trouve le blog québécois économique?
Or are québécois economists too busy publishing in US journals? :-)
Posted by: westslope | July 01, 2010 at 10:36 AM
"It's a good place to find out what other bloggers are talking about"
I really like (and used quite heavily at About) the following to find out what econ bloggers were talking about:
http://www.rtable.net/index/rt/economics/recent/
Posted by: Mike Moffatt | July 01, 2010 at 03:14 PM