Thus Spake Russ

Posted By Russ Emerson on November 5, 2004 at 11:29 am

I hadn’t looked anytime recently, so I clicked over to NZ Bear’s Blogosphere Ecosystem for the same reason the bear went over the mountain — to see what I could see.
Holy moley. On 10/25, I seem to have been subject to a comparatively massive bout of de-linking.

What happened here on the 25th? Nothing of note… but on the 24th, a Sunday, I published my “Re-elect Bush” endorsement.
Would over one-third of people linking to this site de-link me because of that? I doubt it, especially given the rather precipitous climb in inbound links in the previous ten days, according to the same graph. Looks like a statistical anomaly of some sort. Could there be a problem in the Ecosystem algorithm?
If people really did de-link me because of my endorsement, maybe they never realized where I stand on matters, which would be my fault for not being sufficiently interestingly or vehement.
On the other hand, if people link to me only until they figure out I disagree with them, I don’t really need or want their links.
On the gripping hand, I think I’ll have a nice bowl of tomato soup for lunch today.

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Posted By Russ Emerson on November 4, 2004 at 7:49 pm

Eric Alterman, who leans so far to the left he requires a complex system of bracing to keep himself from falling over, attempts psychoanalysis to explain Kerry’s loss:

Let’s face it. It’s not Kerry’s fault. It’s not Nader’s fault (this time). It’s not the media’s fault (though they do bear a heavy responsibility for much of what ails our political system). It’s not “our” fault either. The problem is just this: Slightly more than half of the citizens of this country simply do not care about what those of us in the “reality-based community” say or believe about anything.

Short form: “The people have spoken — the bastards.”
(Via Best of the Web)

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