WHO'S ON FIRST? As of this morning, look who's No. 1 in the Blogshares International Economics Industry. Yes, it's all funny money, but thanks for the attention all the same. Brian Gongol's Traffic Rankings (via Newmark's Door) lists the Shops among the sites with no public referrer logs along with the likes of Crooked Timber, Marginal Revolution, Voluntary Xchange, Freakonomics, and Atlantic Blog.

It's a hobby and I'm not going to worry about potentially unreliable referrer logs. Sitemeter identifies about 100 visits a day and 130-150 page views, whilst the Ecosystem (with a revised counting algorithm) reports about 90. But I put in a cheap counter that suggests a slightly larger visit count.