Paulson Gets the Buzz, Iraq Gets the Attention
Newly nominated Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson captures the lion's share of personality buzz in the blogosphere today, burstiest person and all, and a single blog post and its follow-on comment capture fairly well the yes-no feelings about the appointment.
The real focus: Iraq and the War
But talk all you want about the state of the economy, what bloggers are really discussing today is Iraq, from various angles and platforms. So much so that more than 25% of today's most-cited news stories deal, in some form or another, with the U.S. invasion of Iraq and the war on terror. Among them, are news of more bombings in Iraq (No. 2), new investigations of alleged killings of Iraqi citizens by U.S. Marines (No. 4), including the critical fallout (No. 5), the ongoing news coverage (No. 29), and military followup (No. 36). That's in addition to ongoing casualty reports (No. 37), renewed problems in Afghanistan (No. 34) and even more dire predictions from some observers (No. 38) about what's ahead for Iraq. Dare anyone say, "Hope you had a happy Memorial Day?"
Curious (and bad?) discoveries
The link for Al Gore's documentary film, "An Inconvenient Truth" ranked higher today (No. 12) than Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code," (No. 13)...and perhapswarnings about itchier poison ivy in this global-warming world may have something to do with it? And if you ever wanted to know what the 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time are/were, PC World has done it for you.
Posted by Sue MacDonald at May 31, 2006 01:08 PM
