First the "F"orums, now the "D"ailies.
LOL!
Do I need to explain the difference between plural and singular to you, sir? ![]()
Do I need to explain that there’s a “Mises Daily Full Archive” link in your screenshot? ![]()
Moving on, I think that it’s sad that they appear to have officially resigned themselves to a single daily per, well, day.
Yes, but the point was that the Dailies were the centerpiece of the main page. Now they’re gone, and there’s just one article, which doesn’t give the feeling of a continuous daily series. Rather, it’s like “featured article of the week” or something.
Not only that, but half the time (or maybe even more than that) they’re not even original articles, but rather simply excerpts from classic books. I’d be interested to hear any reasoning for the decline myself.
I’ve been noticing the decline in daillies since around early 2011, even before Jeff Tucker left (so I don’t think it has as much to do with that as some people suppose). Perhaps it’s a sign of the diminishing intellectual quality overall of the “Austrolibertarian movement.” At the same time while we all whine about the lack of daily articles it’s not exactly like we’re writing any ourselves.
lol wut? voluntaryistreader.wordpress.com doesn’t count?
Now that you’ve mentioned it, I’ve gone ahead and bookmarked that blog. ![]()
Why don’t you guys send a few of those to get republished as Mises daillies? if they’re as desperate for new content as they should be, they should be happy to take them?
Would be nice to see that page spruced up a bit with content. I remember back in 2010 seeing 4 brand new articles a day on Mises.org.
I think they need to move away from fluff/rehashing old articles and go back to showcasing new work by Austrian authors and scholars. For readability, 1 - 2 articles a day is fine, and they can always do one “classic” with one newer piece of work.
It would be nice, and maybe some of the VR contributors would be interested in doing that. I think some have actually submitted work in the past to the Mises Daily without hearing even an acknowledgement of receipt. I used to check the Mises Daily before checking the forum. Now I check the Daily about once a week, and the main reason I come here is the forum.
I’d never actually read VR until now.
The other sites I tend to read are The Daily capitalist, which has some very good technical articles written from an Austrian perspective; the EPJ, which can be a bit bombastic at times; and ZH, for some of the crazy stuff they dig up. All sporadically. I might give VR a go in addition to mises.org. So little time though!
What is ZH?
ZeroHedge.
Next it’s "C"ommunity, then "B"log, and finally "A"bout. Then one day you go to the site and it’s gone.
At the same time while we all whine about the lack of daily articles it’s not exactly like we’re writing any ourselves.
Why don’t you guys send a few of those to get republished as Mises daillies? if they’re as desperate for new content as they should be, they should be happy to take them?
I’ve sent them three of my articles and I have not heard back. It’s been weeks. At the very least they could have said “you suck.” Alternatively, “we’ll get back to you in 2 months.” I have received neither response. Sigh.
All the more reason to get LibertyHQ up and running!
Very interesting… I wonder what is going on. Incidentally, I sent Danny Sanchez and Peter Klein not a daily article but a my master’s dissertation on Bohm Bawerk’s price theory (and its interesting complementarity with much of agent based and experimental work) a while ago and haven’t heard anything at all…
Where is Danny these days? I understand he must be quite busy, he’s on my fb, do you think I should get in touch with him that way to convey out collective woes regarding recent developments here? (I hope this doesn’t get me dissociated…)
At this point it may be futile. A lot of us are already on our way contributing to our own sites. Mises.org is now just an archive of what’s been. I don’t see much reason to put any effort into making it alive again (especially when those who actually run it apparently have lost interest in maintaining it at a quality level).

