Not that anyone’s counting, but we’ve just now passed 200 posts for the Points blog.
As I noted back in July on the occasion of our 100th post, we’re no match for the production levels of older and more established academic blogs–but we’ll take the excuse to settle back for a bit of self-reflection. Let’s think a bit about these first 200 posts, and perhaps offer up some New Year’s resolutions to go with them.
If we wander about the tag cloud for a bit, as we did on the occasion of the 100th post, we see that the most popular tags look like this:
- Addiction (50 posts)
- Alcohol (50 posts)
- Policy (47 posts)
- History (45 posts)
- Drugs (38 posts)
- Popular Culture (35 posts)
- Transnational (31 posts)
- Research (29 posts)
- Drug War (26 posts)
- Law (25 posts)
I guess the list isn’t all that surprising–why wouldn’t the blog of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society feature “Alcohol” “Drugs” and “History” in the top five? Moreover, the “Addiction” and “Policy” tags at the top of the list reflect another basic fact of this blog–that public policy (see also “law” at #10) and the addiction concept (see also “research” at #8) dominate the posts. And now, two resolutions: