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This week has been a prime example of the lack of value of the Salon blog page-rankings. One article about the press secretary to a former mideast dictator has generated an unbelievable number of hits, nearly all of them from Google and other search engines. Yesterday I had over 400 hits and climbed ahead of two other worthy blogs on the totals. What do those hits really represent and why are they tallied? As others have noted, it makes it very difficult for newer blogs to crack the top hundred list. Maybe the hits should start over every month, or every quarter. Perhaps there should be a list of all active blogs without hit counts. But then, what would happen to filchyboy #1 & 2? 8:19:10 AM  Comments?()
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Sad news from Iraq this morning. A local radio station said there are rumors that former Iraqi Information Minister, Mohammed Saeed al-Shahaf may have killed himself. Al-Shahaf was the antihero of Saddam's ex-regime for his stubborn insistence there were no infidels in Baghdad and "we will kill them all." He hasn't been seen since the fall of Baghdad. His popularity throughout the world grew on the strength of his wackily-defiant sense of reality.
This news comes on the heels of another CNN story that reports on a Iraqi Information Minister doll being sold in the U.S. The $36 talking doll has the digitized voice of al-Shahaf saying such things as, "our initial assessment is that they will all die." Al-Shahaf may not have been well-grounded, but he was bizarrely entertaining. |
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