The Blogosphere's Serious Side
It's apparent the blogosphere has a very serious side when, in addition to popular citations today for the Blue Collar Comedy Tour v3.0 (today's third most-popular phrase), the season finale of "The Sopranos" (No. 2) and 98,657 search results for "Britney Spears," the words "human rights standards" pop to the top of the list of the most popular keywords typed in the last 24 hours by bloggers. And it's fueled by a Los Angeles Times piece about attempts to remove the prohbition of such standards from newly revised military rules governing the treatment of military detainees. Coulnd't help but notice this blog entry from a soldier's wife and other commentary from bloggers.
Speaking of serious...
Also showing up on the serious meter is former Veep and former Presidential candidate Al Gore, (today's third-burstiest person) whose "Inconvenient Truth" documentary (fourth most-cited link) about global warming keeps creeping up in popularity, fueled primarily by word-of-mouth recommendations, many of them from folks who went in skeptical and came out impressed, and others who are reviewing the reviews:
Posted by Sue MacDonald at June 6, 2006 05:55 PM
