Whoa!

[rivka]

Respectful of Otters just got linked to in Slate.

Now I want to hide under the bed, but my belly won't fit.

Comments

[eeyorerin]

Put a blanket over yourself and masquerade as a sofa?

[wcg.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[threeringedmoon.livejournal.com]

It is a great post, and I am not surprised Slate linked it.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

I'm really surprised, and that has nothing to do with how great the post is.

B

[edschweppe.livejournal.com]

Respectful of Otters (http://respectfulofotters.blogspot.com) just got linked to in Slate. (http://slate.msn.com/id/2115110/)
Congratulations!

Now I want to hide under the bed, but my belly won't fit.
I suppose you could get a bunk bed and put a reeeeealy long bedskirt around the edge of the top bunk.

[datagoddess.livejournal.com]

Congrats - it's a great post, and deserved to be given a wider audience :-)

[cchopps.livejournal.com]

Congrats - it's a great post, and deserved to be given a wider audience :-)

My thoughts as well. Very cool!

[journeywoman.livejournal.com]

I also thought it was a terrific post. I thought of it today while watching local TV news--the story was called "Fight for Life" and I thought, but she isn't even really alive in any meaningful way, and never can be. Yours is one of the few (only?) things I've seen that actually discusses the medical issues.

And to be linked to by Slate--how cool is that? You rock!

[therealjae.livejournal.com]

Wheeee! So proud. :-)

-J

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Now you'll never stop nagging me if I go on hiatus again. ;-)

[therealjae.livejournal.com]

Never ever ever. :-)

-J

[rivka.livejournal.com]

See? You're only going out with me for my blog, admit it.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Deservedly so. ;)

[writingortyping.livejournal.com]

Good! ;-)

[western-slope.livejournal.com]

Might give you a couple of days grace period for the delivery. But after that, we expect you to be back on the job! Aren't you s'posed to be one of those SuperWomen or something?!?!?!

[claire.livejournal.com]

You are an amazing and articulate woman, Dr Rivka. And that was a fantastic and well thought out post.

[perigee.livejournal.com]

The thing this kind of recognition buys you, as I see it (and congrats), is that you can claim sheer volume, shut down comments and fail to reply to e-mail (except perhaps through form letter if you wish).

Which is like hiding under the bed, but a bit more professional. :>

I'm glad!

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

I am glad to see the link, although I missed it in just reading the article. Thanks for pointing it out. (I had already looked at your site to see what your take on the whole mess was, which I thought was the best that went into the medical issues.)

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Congratulations. While it's still very rare to have the mainstream media link to blog posts, it's getting more common.

How's your traffic?

B

[rivka.livejournal.com]

703 in the last hour, 3323 since midnight. They're also coming in substantial numbers from Matthew Yglesias. I assume, in fact, that that's how Slate found me in the first place.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

I divide my hits by referrer, so I can see individual effects of citations. Lots 'o useless but interesting data; that's what I like.

B

[rivka.livejournal.com]

While it's still very rare to have the mainstream media link to blog posts, it's getting more common.

It looks like more mainstream media sites are now keeping blogs of their own. I've got two more mainstream links this morning: Eric Zorn (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/ericzorn/weblog/) at the Chicago Tribune, and Will somebody at MSNBC (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6409077/). So we'll see.

[electricland.livejournal.com]

That is a wonderful post, as is your second on the ethical issues. Thank you for writing them -- the link is well-deserved!

[melebeth]

It's a bloody brilliant post, dearie. And my mental picture of your head sitting under the bed with your belly and feet poking out is hysterical :)

[geminigirl]

Mine was a bit different...it had rivka's head and arms under the bed, but her midsection down hanging out, cause it got stuck on her belly.

It was a fantastic post, Rivka.

[king-tirian.livejournal.com]

I'm sorely tempted to listen to Rush Limbaugh today to see if he mocks your facts. Wouldn't that be SWEET?!

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Or Ann Coulter! ooooh!

[densaer.livejournal.com]

Well, it *is* an excellent post. Cue your fifteen packets of fame?

-densaer
(a lurker)

[thbeatnik.livejournal.com]

In the Today's Papers summary, no less!

You do good work, and you deserve this recognition, scary as it might be.

Now even more people will see why so many of us admire your thinking so much. :)

[vito-excalibur.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[xopher-vh.livejournal.com]

Well, about TIME someone noticed. Congrats!

You just need a higher bed.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Ignoring the politics for a moment, it seems to me that the underlying problem is that society's popular definition of "death" is increasingly being made obsolete by technology.

Discuss?

B

[marykaykare.livejournal.com]

Coolio! I think you should use your newfound status to promote all those other women bloggers no one can find! This is a purely disinterested suggestion on my part as I haven't written anything of substance in months now and so have nothing to promote. You really rock!

MKK--looking forward to hearing baby news RSN

[pickledginger.livejournal.com]

*g*

What, like Sheila Lennon (http://www.projo.com/blogs/shenews/), to whom I'd already recommended the Respectful of Otters essays?

[aquaeri.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

Now I want to hide under the bed, but my belly won't fit.

This is a good thing, because that means they'll be forced to notice you're a <gasp> woman blogger.

[persimmon.livejournal.com]

Also Time magazine, as of this week ...

[rivka.livejournal.com]

What?

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,1039734,00.html

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Although C-SPAN may seem like a straight shooter, blogs across the political spectrum, from RESPECTFUL OF OTTERS to ELEPHANTSBUS, lambasted the channel last week for planning to "balance" its coverage of a lecture by Holocaust scholar Deborah Lipstadt with a speech by Holocaust denier David Irving, who has argued that the Nazis' crimes have been overplayed. Amid the kerfuffle, some conservative bloggers even found a way to blame Bill Clinton--for how far the once noble C-SPAN has fallen--while LITTLE GREEN FOOTBALLS featured the best one-liners: e.g., "What's next, bin Laden rebutting Wolfowitz?"