A half decade flies by when you’re having fun! Or when a…*checks notes* pandemic happens in the middle of it!?
Anyway, yeah. Here we are. It’s once again time for an anniversary post! Indeed, lots of things happened in the last year. And as I review the past year, I’ll answer the big questions first.
Medium Profile and Base and Superstructure
As some readers already know, I started a Medium profile page a few months ago to showcase my writing on a different platform.
Why? For one, Medium has a broader audience than a blog like this one. It also claims to offer something like a social networking experience for writers, where writers read one another’s material and offer encouragement and criticism.
As I wrote in an earlier post – the one I linked to above – this doesn’t mean I’m closing down the blog. But it does mean I’ll balance time and material between the two platforms. For now, my plan is to publish longer pieces on Medium, as well as pieces that are rewritten posts from this blog. For the blog, I plan to post more material from my personal life and experience, as well as brief, quick analyses of news and events.
That’s a rough outline, anyway. It means, for the blog, that the publication schedule will be a bit less consistent than it used to be. Gone, perhaps, are the days when there’s a new post every Monday and Thursday. I’ll still be publishing material every week – but it might not always be here and it might be on days other than Monday or Thursday!
Corporate Politics and Blog Lexicon
Enough of the big news. Let’s talk about some of the things that are new to the blog since last summer!
First, I finished the Corporate Politics 101 series. As many of you know, I’ve been publishing this series gradually over a period of months. And it takes a look at many aspects of working life in the corporate world. You can find an overview of the entire series here.
I’ve also created a blog lexicon. Over the years, I’ve had a habit of coining new terms or redefining existing terms where I felt such a thing would be helpful. I thought it was time to collect all these terms in the same place and lay them out.
I hope the lexicon proves to be a helpful guide for readers!
Readership Data and Most Popular Posts
OK, so in the anniversary posts of years past (2022, 2021, 2020, 2019), I crunched the numbers and generated lots of information about what readers have been checking out the most.
I’ll still do some of that, but Google is in the process of making some changes to Google Analytics that makes it a tad more complicated this year (it should actually be a bit simpler next year).
With that said, here’s a list of the most popular posts published in the last year:
1. What’s a Radlib?
2. Why is The DSA Shrinking?
3. The Limits of Universal Design
And, to be honest, presenting it this way doesn’t tell the most accurate story. “What’s a Radlib?” is waaay more popular than the other two. In fact, it’s not only the most popular post published in the last year, it’s in the top 20 of all time. That is to say, it’s in the top 20 of several hundred posts, most of which were published years earlier and have had that much longer to collect readers.
So, yeah, lots of you read it! Why? I think the whole notion of ‘fake leftists’ (which is the space in which the term ‘radlib’ operates) fascinates people. It got a lot of play after the end of the Bernie campaign, where many Bernie voters were upset with progressives who didn’t back him. And so, they’re interested in the concept of a radlib.
Questions for Readers
I’ll end this post with a couple of questions for readers.
First, what’s your favorite post here at Base and Superstructure?
Second, what would you like to read here?
Please leave your thoughts in the comments!
