This is great news @paulag and thank you for taking up the cudgels. This also vindicates my decision to stick to mostly the longer form. Funny, in my very early blogging days, someone berated me for writing too much!

I don't know if it's the long form, but a recent (not the last, but the third last) has had an enormous spike in attention - on WP from Google searches. I have no idea why, but for my little blog, it's meant a major spike in the stats.