My traffic seems to have jumped yesterday due to a story about the Supreme Court granting cert in the Fantasy Baseball case and the conflicts of five justices. Yesterday almost 6,000 unique visitors stopped by with over 10,000 page views, a big jump from a daily average of 1,000 unique visitors and 2,500 page views. (Yes, I know many of them are spider eyes and not human.)

Since most of you have never been here, I’ll take the opportunity to show you a page with a “best of” from this blog that I compiled last year when I did a Blawg Review based on the NYC Marathon. So you can get a taste of what this little corner of cyberspace is about before you leave and never return.

But if you want to add me to your RSS feed, that’s OK with me. It’s not like we’re gettin’ married if you do. And if not, that’s OK too. I won’t hold a grudge, though I do have your IP addresses and April 1 2009 isn’t too far away.

Doing a round-up is a great way to get known in your particular niche of the blogosphere. And that lesson is not lost on:

Blawg Review #152 The TechnoLawyer, demonstrating how the blog carnival is an extraordinary form of social networking;

Monash Medical Student, giving the best of the medical blogosphere for the week at Grand Rounds;

Carolyn Elefant, of My Shingle and Law Blog Watch fame , as seen in this Legal Times article: Carolyn Elefant Wants to Be the Voice of Solo Lawyers;

InsuranceYak.com, who hosts insurance issues this week at The Cavalcade of Risk; And, of course…

Brooks Schuelke hosting this week’s Personal Injury Law Round-Up, in one of his best round-ups done to date, chock full of stories and commentary from the week gone by;

And one last thing, related to round-ups only by virtue of my having used running as a theme for a round-up; Running does, in fact, make you high.

The following is a test of the Post by Email function of this blog. This is only a test. In the event of an actual blog posting you would be given instructions. Of some kind. This is only a test.

I was the subject of an interview by Rob La Gatta over at Kevin O’Keefe’s Real Lawyers Have Blogs;

Rush Nigut takes an extended bicycle tour of Iowa — famous for corn, quadrennial political tourism and, apparently, Mr. Pork Chop — in Blawg Review #147; Blawg Review will continue to caucus next week in Iowa when Brett Trout hosts from Des Moines at his brand new domain for Blawg IT, as he tries to top his fellow Iowan’s extraordinary tour around the legal blogosphere;

The Health Wonk Review is up at GoozNews;

And Personal Injury Law Round-Up #50 is now up at Perlumtter & Schuelke, their 14th consecutive edition. But Brooks Schuelke is too busy celebrating the state of Texas to wonder why he took on the task.

Traffic has jumped a bit due to the interview with Robert “Flea” Lindeman on Tuesday and several incoming links, and I know that many of you haven’t been here before.

If you’d like to see a one-page synopsis of some of this blog’s more interesting topics over the past year, click here.

And don’t be shy about adding this to your RSS feed. I have no idea what tomorrow will bring.