come out

Music: Aphex Twin: Selected Ambient Works, Volume Two (1994)

Every now and then I entreat lurking Rosechron readers to come out of the e-closet and announce their identities. I've met some scholarly friends this way over the years. I'm also just curious to know who is stopping by. I have a stat counter that can tell me ISP identities, but this is not necessarily a good measure of who is reading: a have a buddy in the Carolina's whose ISP comes up Minneapolis.

The readership of Rosechron is modest: in the summer, this blog averages about 40-80 discrete visitors a day (weekends 40, weekdays 80). During the normal academic year, readership is about 100 to 150 a day, unless I post something about forensics/debate, in which case readership bumps up to 400 or more.

I'm just curious, perhaps a little narcissistic: who are the bulk of you? I know my buddies read regularly, but I'm curious about the strangers who visit: are you academics? In grad school? Fellow academics? Come out! Come out! What are your names, what do you do? Do you have a blog of your own?