Farewell. The Flying Pig Has Left The Building.

Steve Hynd, August 16, 2012

After four years on the Typepad site, eight years total blogging, Newshoggers is closing it's doors today. We've been coasting the last year or so, with many of us moving on to bigger projects (Hey, Eric!) or simply running out of blogging enthusiasm, and it's time to give the old flying pig a rest.

We've done okay over those eight years, although never being quite PC enough to gain wider acceptance from the partisan "party right or wrong" crowds. We like to think we moved political conversations a little, on the ever-present wish to rush to war with Iran, on the need for a real Left that isn't licking corporatist Dem boots every cycle, on America's foreign misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. We like to think we made a small difference while writing under that flying pig banner. We did pretty good for a bunch with no ties to big-party apparatuses or think tanks.

Those eight years of blogging will still exist. Because we're ending this typepad account, we've been archiving the typepad blog here. And the original blogger archive is still here. There will still be new content from the old 'hoggers crew too. Ron writes for The Moderate Voice, I post at The Agonist and Eric Martin's lucid foreign policy thoughts can be read at Democracy Arsenal.

I'd like to thank all our regular commenters, readers and the other bloggers who regularly linked to our posts over the years to agree or disagree. You all made writing for 'hoggers an amazingly fun and stimulating experience.

Thank you very much.

Note: This is an archive copy of Newshoggers. Most of the pictures are gone but the words are all here. There may be some occasional new content, John may do some posts and Ron will cross post some of his contributions to The Moderate Voice so check back.


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Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Influential Flying Pigs

By Fester




I'm trying to be productively procrastinating right now as I
really don't want to mow the lawn so I meandered over to the
Memeorandum leaderboard and guess what --- we are in the top 100 (just
barely @ #100).  The more impressive thing to me is who our peers are
--- The GOS @ 500K hits a day is there, major newspapers, think tanks
and hack blogs are there, and then us with ~1,000 to 1,500 hits a day.
We are hitting a high influence, high value add contribution to the discourse.

We have always been this way under a wide variety of influence and linkage metrics.  Wikio has us ranked as one of the top 400 blogs in terms of influence in the country, Blogburst routinely pays us as we sit in the top few percent of their leaderboard, and our Technorati rank at the old site routinely had us higher than several 100K hit a day political blogs.  This only works because our readers, commenters and e-mailers are so damn good at forcing us to think and challenge our assumptions. 

Thanks guys!


 

 




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  1. CernigJune 11, 2008 at 1:47 PM

    Yes, thanks folks!
    I'm very proud to work with such a great crew of bloggers and to have such wonderful readers.
    Regards, C

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  2. Chuck AdkinsJune 11, 2008 at 1:56 PM

    Lucky bastards. ;-P

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  3. distributorcapJune 11, 2008 at 3:24 PM

    congrats!

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  4. EarlJune 11, 2008 at 9:35 PM

    Congratulations, of course, but now that I check the full leaderboard in the middle of the night, you guys are up to #97!
    Keep at it!

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  5. SteveJune 12, 2008 at 1:23 AM

    It was a couple of years go when I happened to come across Cernig and immediately bookmarked the site. At the the time he was one of the few who were able to presciently "connect the dots", so to speak. The site, with the new personnel additions, is easily one of the best group blogs around, maybe THE best, and always my first stop after logging on. Congrats on a well-deserved notice.

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  6. 1MaNLanJune 12, 2008 at 1:56 AM

    Even if the site did not attain the influence it deserves to have, it would still be great, of course. But, the combination of gifted bloggers, with their differing interests, expertise and input, makes this site a spicy meatball, indeed. It seems that there is always something thought provoking for almost every non kool-aid drinker out there. I just don't understand how you guys can keep coming up with such high quality stuff on a daily basis. Y'all must be on intellectual Viagra or sumpin'.

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  7. LibbyJune 12, 2008 at 3:02 AM

    Thanks to everybody from me.

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  8. Jay McDonoughJune 12, 2008 at 5:54 AM

    Congratulations. Well deserved.

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  9. HyperIonJune 12, 2008 at 11:39 AM

    #92 right now...

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