Economist and regular commenter here, Harry Clarke, has started his own blog. Quite a few meaty posts already, so visit and comment.
Update Adding to the Ozeconoblogosphere is my co-author[1] Joshua Gans. Go and join his captive audience.
fn1. The Oz economics profession is so small and interconnected that “six degrees of separation” is an overstatement. One way of another, nearly everyone is linked pretty closely to everyone else.
John Quiggin 
I tried to sign up, but wudn’t accept any of the user names I tried ! ??
and I did so want to reply to the Unemployment story.
As a over 50, having been made redundant at 45 – I feel I have a lot to say on the subject of employment of over 50’s
maybe I’ll do a post here with my story ! One day !
Bosco, I’ve just tried posting there using the “other” option rather than trying to set up a user id (I haven’t tried “anonymous”). It worked OK that way for me.
Thanks for the kind words John and the plug.
Please, there needs to be a dedicated post on the Muslim attack on our core value of freedom of speech. This is one of the most important events of the decade.
I agree with Yoshifumi.
P.M. Thx – I’ll try that,
What’s the yabby’s name?
John,
Your RSS feed is not working for me (hasn’t been for a while, maybe a week).
Anyone else have this problem?
Others have mentioned the RSS problem, and I’ll look into it.
If we are on to metablogging, after posting a comment I do not get referred back to the comments page any more – I just get the form submit page. It may be the penalty I pay for only having IE on this box.
Yabby
AR – I’m getting the same behaviour on my sturdy old DOS based browser, Arachne. I also seem to be losing the continuity of my blog details, which I now have to re-enter.
On the subject of more (merrier?) econo-bloggers, and how they seem to be musing on the idea of how best to get an established audience in this lurk, I’m beginning to wonder if they are each diluting each other’s equity or if it’s like the old saw that if there’s one lawyer in a town, he barely scrapes by, but when there are two they each do a roaring trade.
Either way, there is a Tragedy of the Commons mechanism here, but it remains to be seen who might end up getting done down.
Me, as a participant rather than an initaiator, my strategy is to frequent differing sites which have tunnel vision but no bias in other areas. That way I’m better placed to spot any one site’s particular mania and discount it while still learning stuff I didn’t already know.
(I know, that seems unlikely – but the rarer it is the more valuable it is, and I do still have some vestiges of intellectual humility; I am not too proud to learn from my inferiors.)