Blog-IT-o ergo sum

	1/1/2005

Long Tail, Short Leash

Reading the whole piece, which ranks the moral character of President Bush on par with the Marquis de Sade, could get you on someone's list. I lifted the part I thought germane to the current discussion of the Long Tail (This is in the vien of, "be careful who offers marketing for you...")

"the story of two Iraqis stopped by the U.S. for being out after curfew, who were then taken to the Tigris river and forced to jump in � one drowned, the other survived. The irony here is that the victims are related to a prominent Iraqi blogger, lionized by the pro-war "blogosphere" for hailing the Americans as his "liberators" � but when Zeyad blogged the death of his cousin, rightly pointing out that this wasn't exactly the sort of behavior one expects from "liberators," he was quickly dropped and even denounced by the pro-war bloggers."