Adieu…. for the Time Being
A number of the more perceptive readers at ToK blog have noticed that I have seemed to have dropped off the perch during the last fortnight.
The good news is that I am still live and kicking and am back in Australia after finishing up at the LSE.
The bad news is that I have returned to the fold as a political staffer and hence need to pull my head in on the blogging front. For the moment I am joining Andrew Leigh in professionally imposed blogging retirement.
Since this is something of a sign off I don’t think it’s being too self indulgent to say that I really enjoyed my six months of daily blogging and found it far more rewarding and informative than I had expected. The willingness of other Oz Bloggers to engage with a young Labor hack on the issues was a great experience (thanks in particular to Mark and Kim at LP, Nick G at Troppo and the Skepticlawyer). I certainly didn’t expect to attract as many readers as ToK was by the end of last month and their engagement played no small part in that.
Anyway, I hope to return to the blogging business sometime in the future – so don’t deactivate the ToK RSS feed just yet. You never know.
In the mean time – keep voting Labor! J
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September 13th, 2008 at 11:40 am
Sorry to hear you’re heading for self-imposed exile, Tim. Best of luck doing your bit for the ALP, though.
September 13th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
Well done Tim. An excellent blog, and I’ll be sorry to see it go. Perhaps you’ll help us out in other ways.
September 13th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
I might add that I think this is quite unnecessary. This is not a criticism of you, but I think a much better solution would be for you to continue blogging (when you get the time) but avoiding any direct political content that might cause controversy. I think we should be trying to find a way for public servants to engage more generally in that way. Anyway, that’s academic, and as I say, I’m not suggesting that you be the guinea pig. Which reminds me, did you hear the one about putting lipstick on a guinea pig. . .
September 16th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Yep, sorry to see you disappear, Tim, and I hope it’s only temporary - agree with Nick that it’s dumb that you have to!
September 24th, 2008 at 1:30 am
Loved your work.
I assume the all wise Conroy has re-engaged your services. Our loss is his gain.
Please give us fast internet and stop Telstra banditry.
September 24th, 2008 at 8:43 am
You’ve either got lazy or scared…best of luck with the real job.
September 27th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
Best of luck in the new job mate! shame for the blog though, it was a gem for us the true political junkies of our times.