Underperforming their traffic..... (Drumming fingers.)

This would seem to suggest the hitrates haven't dropped by much if at all, just the clickthroughs have.

Ill have to think about that one, but the first scenario that comes to mind to explain that one, is that the hits the sites are getting are increasingly narrow, and most are from readers who show up to a site every given day. They getting more hits, but those hits aren't coming from new readers. (I may be wrong on the whole, but in my experience relatively new readers are the ones that tend to clickthrough the most)

I'd give a lemon cookie to see the breakdowns on what are more affected, left to right, though.

Either way, however, this does not speak to me of a longing for 'change' in the grass roots... merely a number of activists immersing themselves in the political events of the day, several times per day.

From what I can tell, Denton's decision makes sense: The entertainment blogs continue to do quite well while political blogs are underperforming their traffic.

I do think, however, that ads are selling for higher prices.

I mean, have you noticed a decline, James? I sure haven't...