As a long-time blogger,1 [1 I guess…] I find the idea of blogging, especially blogging about technical topics, fascinating. So I've recently been attempting a survey of PL blogging. This part talks about overall statistics. My aim was to do something like a comprehensive survey. Of course, it is impossible to be truly comprehensive, so I'll try to indicate when I am selecting against something or other, but I also hope that I have captured, say, a decent percentage of the PL research commun...