(0450) Morning all … dark.

 

3. Call it a weird attitude, ladies and gentlemen

… but reader comments are a vital part of this blog complex of four sites, plus OoL. Were I to x-y graph HQ as first column of the “x bar”, then NOWP, UHC-WP and lastly Jstack, excluding OoL altogether, it would come out as a hyperbola, its nadir being UHC-WP till recently … slight rise to the neglected Jstack due to quite a few mutual subscriptions between fellow substackers.

I’ve no idea of HQ stats, deliberately not installing it in the dashboard for operational reasons … I’ve found, from long experience that they become the focus for the blogger/tweeter and he/she will tailor the content to up the stats. I don’t like that on X and don’t like it on blog or vlog because it prevents going after this or that topic freely.

There’s been some activity at Jstack in comments … always was due to the nature of substack … I’ve been thinking I need to get comments there more visible here, as they tend to be thoughtful:

Meaanwhile, WP itself (across the two WPdotcom blogs) sent this yesterday:

This is the second most neglected site after Jstack until recently when I’ve started bringing it more into action and I really must get Jstack into it … problem at the latter is the dash and navigation tools are appalling there, requiring all sorts of clicking which they want us to do, plus it suits text only there with one pic per post, which is not my mode of blogging on the whole. To be fair, it arranged the line in the sand text nicely yesterday … Jstack does well text only on a “select all and paste” basis.

NOWP? Well comments count, by definition, is high, plus views. OoL wildly varies from a few hundred a day to a thousand and a half, depending on post … as it should be imho … the nature of the post determining interest at OoL.

2. DAD at 1169

a) Meet the new French government: same as the old government. Twenty-six days after being appointed—a record under the Fifth Republic—Sébastien Lecornu has named the first part of his government. Unsurprisingly….

b) “I’d Rather Die in Jail”: Telegram boss slams EU over Free Speech. Pavel Durov says French prosecutors and Brussels elites are using his case to intimidate platforms into censorship….

c) Cover-up at the EU! EP leadership blocks committee of inquiry into EC chief’s vaccine deal….

d) Grandad Gaston, an octogenarian will not have to leave his resin harvester’s hut in La-Teste-de-Buch (Gironde), as demanded by the Conservatoire du Littoral (Coastal Protection Agency)….

1. Met office dishonesty via TDS

This opened the TDS post on their reports on Lowestoft and a few others:

“Last August, the Daily Sceptic drew attention to the UK Met Office inventing temperature data at its fictitious ‘open’ weather station at Lowestoft. Figures were said to be compiled from “well-correlated neighbouring stations”, but research by citizen sleuth Ray Sanders found there were no such operations within a 40-mile radius. At the time, the Daily Sceptic referred to the matter as a “smoking gun” and said that unless the Met Office could finally reveal its workings out, “the only realistic conclusion to draw is that the data are invented”. No explanation has been provided but in a shock unannounced move the Met Office has now withdrawn all the Lowestoft data from its historical record back to when the site closed in 2010. Similar withdrawals of data have also occurred in the stations at Nairm Druim and Paisley.”

Further down in the article, it mentions that they’re “calling on” the Met Office to investigate all temp readings up and down the country but of course … only inaction and brick wall. That is, citizen journos will have to do it station by station by station, while the M.O. unprofessionally and unethically sits on its haunches, obstructing.

Here are the opening TDS items today … see Blogrolls, centre column: