It’s my 500th blog post!

Wow, 500. This certainly is far from my first blog. In fact, this is probably about the 8th or 9th – I can’t keep track really. But, it is I think the first blog where I’ve done 500 posts in one single place. And that’s kind of cool.

Going forward, I’ll continue to edit True/Slant’s homepage, jump on breaking news like it’s a loose grenade, and develop new editorial concepts that I hope will propel this blog forward, beyond the 20,000 or so unique visitors who are now navigating here every month.

But it’s fun to look back, too.

If you look at the right-hand side, you can see my five most popular blog posts of all time on True/Slant. So I decided I’d direct readers to 5 other blog posts that didn’t get quite the pick-up that perhaps they deserved, in my not so humble opinion. Call them my five favorite misses – decent blog posts that fewer than 100 people read.

I hope you’ll enjoy reading them as much as I enjoyed writing them:

1. Obamaism or Obama-ism?

All the way back in March, prior to True/Slant’s launch, I argued that President Obama had become an American president who would be remembered more for what he did and less for the mistakes he made, a la President Bush. Will I be right?

2. Will lobbyists save journalists?

Just after True/Slant launched, I looked at the emergence of Steven Brill’s Journalism Online, which would attempt to develop new ways for news outlets to charge for content they put online. I argued that based on the company they were keeping, Brill et al would head straight to Washington in the hopes of recieving an anti-trust exemption so that old media could develop a monopoly power to crowd us online guys out of the market. Given the Federal Trade Commission’s plans to consider the option of an anti-trust exemption in meetings in December, I think my warning has proved prescient.

3. THERE IS A SPECTER HAUNTING OBAMA’S UPPER LIP

A terrific headline in response to race-baiting, intolerant hysteria ginned up by political conservatives after President Obama failed to get out his Norelco prior to his June speech on America and the Islamic world in Cairo.

4. MTV suspends ‘reality’ programming in Michael Jackson’s honor

Alright this one got more than 100 views, but I really liked this blog post. I looked at how MTV’s immediate coverage of Michael Jackson’s death reflected on the sad state of the cable TV channel that changed the world.

5. Did Joe Biden just embrace the Bush Doctrine?

Embracing my typical foreign policy jones, I looked at Vice President Biden’s reference to Israel’s “rights” and “entitlements” in relation to a possible attack on Iran’s nuclear program. This led me to worry that Biden was not distinguishing President Obama’s national security strategy from the so-called ‘Bush doctrine’ of preventive war-fighting. Months later, we have not yet seen an Obama national security strategy that spells out our move away from the Bush doctrine. I can only hope that the Nobel Peace Prize will encourage the president to at least put that genie back in the bottle.

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Thank you dear reader. Here’s to 500 more…