A couple of thoughts come to mind, BoHo:

--your blog post titles yawn - gotta sex 'em up, or at the very least, use words such as CONSPIRACY, SCANDAL, PALIN
--those annoying spam ads are pushing your content down, down, down; how can you compete with the modern equivalent of purple sand teapot?

N.B.: purple sand teapot was a classic spam ad from months gone by. I'm still learning from it.

Boho: Say it ain't so. Don't quit.

Just because people didn't comment doesn't mean people didn't read. Sometimes people don't comment because they don't know enough about the subject matter, in which case, you're informing them.

But frankly, I would guess that whining about how nobody reads your stuff isn't the best way to get people to read it.

I often forget to rec'd. They need another category; something along the lines of "is it forwardable". Don't leave, I SEND ALL YOUR STUFF TO MY MOM!

1) I am still not sure who is right and wrong in Honduras.
2) They may enjoy the US ignoring them, considering the historical result of our taking notice.

neoboho, It will sit *very* uncomfortably for many at TPM to consider that covert CIA activities from the coup in Honduras, protest mobilization in Iran to the unrest in China are back with a vengeance under Obama. It takes away from "Hope".

Yankees aren't interested in Honduras because they realize, even if their clandestine intelligence srvices do not, that the doings of the government of Honduras ar basically none of thir business.

They are the business of the people of Honduras.

God, now I feel like a prick. I will go back and take a look.

I think I just got too involved in a bunch of projects Neo. I am sorry.

I promise to do better. Besides that little island with two nations is one of the most intriguing in the world really.

I almost always rec your blogs, neoboho, but I seem to have missed the last 3. Never saw 'em on the list. I've been grateful for your interest in Honduras, frankly, so please keep posting about what's going on there. Simply recycle, repackage, and repost the info that didn't get any attention so your blogs have a chance to compete with the non-news of the day (like all the Rachel Maddow and Sarah Palin posts). Could be that spam knocked you off the list sooner than a lack of interest.

Just ignore the lack of attention and start putting some cuss words and exclamation points in your titles.

I worked hard once on a minutemen-militia-in- arizona/sheriff joe arpaio piece once, posted it late, it disappeared by morning, and i reposted it. Still, almost no one recommended it. It is frustrating sometimes to discover your work is either ignored or unappreciated. Maybe i should ask what self-loading and reloading is, molly?

If you quit, I'll no longer have the second most luxurious beard at TPM--think it over. The pressures of having the most luxurious would be too great for me to stand. :-)

p.s. I'm in Montreal and attending a conference, and haven't been at a computer during the period your last two posts were on the front page. Consider this a belated reccy and comment.

I'm not sure if this applies to you or not, but I would implore you that your blog is set so that it appears on both the cafe site and the tmpdc site. I for one HATE that all blogs don't end up on both sites anymore. Often I check TPMDC first for news and then may not have time to check the cafe. Just a suggestion.

Lots of good feedback for you here so let me add something indirectly related to your experience. As I find it, the Café is more dialogical than most well trafficked sites. I can look at an article on Huffpo and see a zillion comments but very few that comprise any back and forth. On the other hand at the Café there is a lot of dialogue in the comments. So perhaps your strict information transmission format may not be best suited for this forum. I read your first post on Honduras and appreciated the detailed analysis. However at that moment I was not inclined to dive into that subject. There aren’t too many neophytes here so I was not surprised at the quality of your work product. It just wasn’t the moment for me to follow your posts. Actually because of the twitter-esque way the Café archives things I didn’t even realize that you had strung several entries together on this subject. That is neither your fault nor mine but it keeps your efforts hidden and me unaware of them. All that I can suggest is that you treat the Café like a café and just come by for some conversation among interesting people and maybe some of what you know will fit the moment. If not well a lot of us know a lot but most of the time it is better said by Dickday when he is having one of his “episodes.”

I have read you before and appreciated your remarks. I would prefer that you retain a presence here. Either way we’ll meet again at the Goldman-Sachs Appreciation Day barbeque, our newest national holiday. No telling what we’ll be talking about then.

So. You still ready to give up? Is it not clear that you are valued in these parts? After you decide about it, could you please consider supporting Single-Payer Healthcare? A lot of us would be grateful, but that's beside the point. Healthcare for all would include all of us. Best to you.

74 commeents are absolute proof it was you and not your excellent articles. {That was an attempt as sarcasm. 74 comments suggest we like you, we realy, really like you!}

Maybe, just maybe, folks are a bit ovestimulated with healthcare at the moment. Frankly, I have, on rare occassion, re-posted articles to see if a better time would work, like after TPM takes all the trash/spam off the recent posts. It can also work better on a different day of the week. Sometimes a lot of great posts happen at once.