On "Wikiality": Stephen Colbert Strikes Again

In case you missed Monday's late-night airing of satirist Stephen Colbert's "The Word" segment on Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report," (a YouTube video of which is today's No. 6 most-cited link,) he invented another one: "Wikiality," which already has more than 150 search results on BlogPulse.

Today's 16th-most-cited personality and the guy who invented "truthiness," Colbert also got himself banned from Wikipedia in the process. He invented "wikiality" to illustrate the thinking that if enough people believe something false, it becomes reality in a democratic sort of way. Wikipedia, which got slammed by viewers who followed Colbert's advice and tried to edit entries about his own opinions and elephants, got banned from the site, according to Newsvine (No. 16 most-cited link). Bloggers noticed. Some were amused. Some weren't.

And the not-so-funny
But not everything's funny. Today's top-cited news articles from Vanity Fair and the Washington Post hint that Congressional 9/11 investigators felt intentionally misled by the Pentagon about what really happened on Sept. 11, 2001. Elsewhere, author Seth Godin has advice for authors, and Harry Potter fans don't want him dead.

STILL hot
And yes, it's STILL hot. Eleven of today's most-cited blog phrases include references of one sort or another to the weather or to heat, including the ever-popular "hottest day of the summer."

Up or down?
Congress is trying to kill two birds with one stone with a bill that sets an index for minimum wage increases but also cuts estate taxes at the same time (as if no on in Congress can remember how to address one issue at a time?). A BlogPulse trend graph shows more buzz for the lower end of the economic scale: