My recent peregrination of the blogs lately has led me to recondite. Contemplation of the goings on here has made me observe one or two things.

Far be it from me to apply strict doctrinaire about blogging, I have fallen foul on one or two occasions to the doyens of this site, although I am somewhat lacking in strict contumacy.

As you may be aware, I'm a big fan of the gregarious nature of this site. We share things and inform all, sometimes with meticulous pride in our grammar and punctuation, sometimes without. Sometimes we say a little, sometimes we say a lot. I for one said more than I intended to on another's blog just last week.

Maybe it's because I have more time on my side. Before my recent move, I would not have been able to visit as many entries as I find myself able to now. So I find myself clicking onto more and more sobriquets, finding the chuckles and the frowns and the raised eyebrows come to me easily, as expected.

And life is good. On the whole.

Contrariwise, a few niggling aspects of blog life lately have caused me to verbalise a few things, thus:

I have profound curiosity as to how the "Featured Blog of the Day" works. Today, =Suzanne's= "Not Many Bothans Died to Bring Us This Blog" is featured. Nothing wrong with that I hear you say and I concur harmonisingly. I just wondered how the blog came to be featured.

I seem to remember that in order for my own blog to be featured, I had to be anointed by BonnieGrrrl. I've witnessed on many occasions, said VIP to say, "Well done, I have made this featured Blog of the Day" or words to that effect.

So are there two methods to attain this status? When the aforementioned VIP, who does seem to be on a hiatus at the moment, is not on hand to appoint someone to be featured, is there an automated algorithm that selects somebody haphazardly? I notice that Suzanne's last input was on November 18th, so she has been selected over a week later.

I was just curious; it matters not in the grand scheme of things.

And what is it with these VIPs? Or to be more precise, the moderators? Those schipp'erke's of this site. I can understand it if VIPs are busy with their day-to-day projects, many of them are Lucasfilm employees or authors or artists, so their absence may yet prove to be raison d'êtres.

But the VIPs, who on occasion seem quick to pounce on someone with loquacious tenacity, also seem to be absent without leave at times.

For instance, fellow blogger Yodabud3's latest entry was a plea to purely get some hits. No offence intended to Yodabud3, but has it really come to this that a blogger has to resort to asking for recognition. To me, that is not the nature of the blogs, and I am confident that if I attempted that, Dork Moose or whatever his name is, would see fit to block said entry. He actually did block one of my entries, for what one can only assume, was an attempt to get hits. It was in a way, but it was all part of an elaborate social-blog experiment that can now never take place.

But, life goes on, as do blogs.

So I continued on my rapprochement of entries, and without too much due care and attention, I managed to make the front page.

Great. My hubris shone through and I felt good. I'm not after a great deal of recognition, but it does feel nice when it happens.

It happened for 24 hours, if I'm not mistaken.

No problem, on with the show.

Then from Thursday night until Monday night, the 3 blogs featured on the front page never moved. Monitoring them carefully, I watched them remain steadfast, one of them not receiving any replies at all during that period, largely due to the fact that it had reached its blog limit on 23rd November.

So I ask the question - can a blog still remain popular despite receiving no replies? Does its popularity depend on the amount of hits it receives, even if those hits neglect to produce a reply?

I wonder.

I also wonder about Jedi Tee's palingenesis. I like Jedi Tee a great deal, but she has had no blogging input for 6 months, maybe longer. Yet there it was, her "Footloose" entry on the list of most popular blog entries, one of her older entries I might add. It even threatened to overtake my own entry on said list, yet her entry was receiving no replies, yet mine was.

I apologise profusely if this sounds like I'm suggesting that my entries are preponderate to anyone else's, far from it. It's just that these observations are being made during a succession of incidents that have surrounded my own entries.

I am also not knocking other bloggers. I may knock the odd moderator, but that's what they're there for.

Isn't it?

They don't seem to be here for much else. I remember one moderator posting highlights of the blogging week, a few months ago. That didn't last long.

If a moderator can be contrapuntal here, please do so; I'd love to hear your views, but make them without solecism.

But I expect they're all busy.

I think I've typed enough. You may think that this entry is here for the sake of argufy, but it's not. I'm just curious, that is all, I'm curious as to the why and wherefore of blogging bureaucracy.

So whether you think this entry is a conundrum of catachresis, or just a bundle of sophistry, you can be rest assured that the real Rogueish will return in due course.