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Every Saturday, in obedience to Rule 2 of "How to Get a Million Hits on Your Blog," we feature our reach-around round-up, linking everybody who has linked us in the past week. For the past several weeks, Smitty has done this with the help of high-tech clonebots.
However, Smitty is spending quality time with his in-laws this week, and therefore, he's left me in charge of the clonebots. Since I'm a low-tech kind of guy and therefore don't know WTF I'm doing, this is going to be kind of a mess. If your link got left out, e-mail Smitty, and he'll get you hooked up next week. And so, here we go . . .
- According to the cloneblots, we have a new Rule 2 champeen this week, Kuru Lounge which linked us like a mofo (which is how we like it). They linked us for swine flu, for being part of the moronosphere, for the Arlen Specter switcheroo, and again for being part of the moronosphere. Hey, wait a minute . . .
- Second place this week goes to Carolyn Tackett of Carolyn's Closet, who linked us on "power corrupts" (we try not to abuse our power), on Arlen Specter (who deserves to be powerfully abused), and on real feminism.
- It's Derby Day, and so the "show" horse this week is Clever S. Logan, who scored with "Megan Fox is hot" (any arguments?) and by slapping some Rule 4 on "hip" douchebag New York Republican.
- Jimmie at Sundries Shack won't object. Jimmie linked our recommendation of biographies (adding a few recommendations of his own) and also had some thoughts on dealing with swine flu.
- Next up is Carol of No Sheeples Here, who linked us on the Air Force One flyover in New York and the Arlen Specter exit.
- In a cave in prehistoric Wisconsin, Troglopundit linked us with his own Sunday roundup and my partying down with his Wisconsin buddy Sean Hackbarth, who has one of those hipster "soul patch" things on his face but doesn't actually sing the blues.
- William John Perry of Beating the Liberty Drum is the latest blogger to discover the awesome power of Rule 2 -- and Rule 5, linking us on Carrie Prejean's breasts and Clever S. Logan vs. Megan Fox.
- Just Grits linked my thoughts on megalomaniacal narcissism and also suggested that Louis Calder's going under the Obama bus.
- Good ol' Paco can always be counted on for a congratulatory FMJRA on a guy's 20th wedding anniversary and also offered a don't-let-the-door-hit-you to Snarlin' Arlen.
Where do I get crazy ideas like this? Am I brilliant or just plain evil? Oh, well, on with the round-up:
- Pirate's Cove links us twice this week. William Teach's Pinup Sunday, of course, was the original inspiration for Rule 5, and he also linked us on the NY AF1 flyover.
- Beginning the linked-us-once category (at least, according to Smitty's clonebots) is Donald Douglas of American Power, weighing in on the rapidly deteriorating situation in the LGF bunker.
- Our devout Catholic friend Adrienne gets special credit for calling us "big guys." Heh.
- Dan Collins of Protein Wisdom also weighs in on the LFG gotterdammerung.
- Fear and Loathing in Georgetown liked the Jessica Valenti/Bill Maher analogy.
- Winds of Babylon linked us on the NY AF1 flyover.
- A rare disagreement from Bob's Bar & Grill.
- OK, here's your Smitty's Clonebot Mystery of the Week: Try to find the link to us at The Steynian. There's one in there somewhere, but I can't find it. However, it's some mighty fine aggregation of linkage and lots of good stuff to read.
BTW, just as an aside on blogospheric method, Rule 1 still works. After my pathetic whine about a lack of linky-love on my patented Carrie Prejean breast implant meme -- dude, I so owned that -- I actually got 'Lanched last night. It's like a double dose of Enzyte for the blog-fu. Now, on with the round-up . . .
- Whatever Is Right linked us in a "greatest-hits" round-up. Newbie bloggers may want to check out that post as a good example of how to dish out a lot of linky-love at one fell swoop.
- Smitty's post about the Passion of Hope got linked by Dogfight At Bankstown.
- Craig Henry mourns the day the music really died.
- Locomotive Breath likes "what she said" about Bill Maher.
- House of Eratosthenes cleverly combines Eva Longoria in a bikini with a name-check of Alyssa Milano. This link caused me to wonder what happens when you Google "Alyssa Milano nude"? Answer: 641,000 sites. So there's no point in me even trying to compete with that. Market research . . .
- Where were we? Oh, yeah. The round-up! Patriot Room linked us with a gallery of Miss USA pageant contestants, of whom only Miss Tennessee is certifiably unenhanced.
- Jeremy at Rhymes With Clown agreed with my advocacy of youthful marriage, and shares some powerful thoughts of his own. Whenever this subject is raised, you can expect all kinds of silly objections and absurd accusations. My general point is that our current trend is toward later marriage and fewer children. Ergo, being countercultural means that when the question is asked, "When should I marry?" the answer is, "Sooner." And when the question is asked, "How many children should I have?" the answer is, "More."
- Physics Geek ponders lingerie physics. Hey, Geek, since you're all into science and everything, maybe you can explain this mystery: Why is it that a photo of a woman in lace and satin lingerie is actually more enticing than a photo of a woman wearing nothing at all? Or is that just me?
Man, sorry this is taking so long, but ever since November, these freaking unionized clonebots act like they run the place. We continue:
- Rob at Rumblepak got married at 25 and became a dad less than two years later. Irresponsible? Maybe. Romantic? Definitely. May you have a dozen, Rob.
- The Purple Center sees Specter's flip to Democrat as "a blow to centrist politics." Hey, if you're saying, "Specter blows," you'll get no argument from me.
- Speaking of "blows," Daniel Larison linked.
- More ex-Specter-ation at Creative Minority Report.
- Charles Hill appreciates my swine-flu avoidance advice.
More seminar training for newbie bloggers: Try a Rule 3. Go to Memeorandum. Find a story there you want to blog about. Link/quote the story, give your own commentary, and link/quote some of the other blogs that are commenting on that story, and be sure to hat-tip Memeorandum. (Right now Memeorandum has so much commentary on this Carrie Prejean thing.) If you'll do that regularly for a couple of weeks, eventually you should trigger their algorithm and pop up in the Memeorandum feed. We continue with the linky-love:
- Frank J. was disappointed by my exposure of Carrie Prejean's fakies.
- Deuce Geary: "Arlen, you ignorant slut."
- Another Mystery Link Search at Snooper Report, which is an excellent round-up of Obama's 100 Days.
- Stop the ACLU links on the AF1 NYC buzz as does The Rude News.
- Washington City Paper linked in a round-up.
- Zoominac says, Don't Let the Door Hit Ya, Arlen.
- Five Feet of Fury
- Hyscience
- A Conservative Lesbian
- Future Republican Senator
- Cranky Con
- Fisherville Mike
- Atlas Shrugs
- BT Sig
- Evil Bender
- Fausta's Blog
- Hisvorpal
- Lefarkins
- The Nappy Cat
- The Blog Prof
- Politics Across the Pond
- Moe Lane
- Morgan's 2 Cents
- News Media Magazine
- EnnuiPundit
- Is This Blog On?
- Jeffords
- Jihad Watch
- The Liberty Papers
- Cancel the Bee
Hey RSM, I linked to your Arlen Specter piece here:
ReplyDeletehttp://zoominac.com/2009/04/30/dont-let-the-door-hit-ya/
Keep up the great work!
RSM, Smitty,
ReplyDeleteAs with Matt, linked your Specter piece here:
http://trackacrat.com/2009/04/30/fewer-morals-than-judas/
Plus, and I'll say it again in the hope of emotionally blackmailing anyone reading this into visiting my blog, I got married 8 days ago!
As Smitty's Union rep, you know we'll be asking for double his salary at the next negotiation.
ReplyDelete"Why is it that a photo of a woman in lace and satin lingerie is actually more enticing than a photo of a woman wearing nothing at all?"There's an old nudist-colony joke - you know it's old because they're still calling it a "nudist colony" - that addresses precisely that issue.
ReplyDeleteTwo guys, suitably birthday-suited, are having a chat, when one of the resident babes saunters by. Nothing is said until she's out of earshot - a measure of decorum is expected, after all - and then the following conversation ensues:
Guy 1: "Wow."
Guy 2: "You got that right."
Guy 1: "Can you imagine her in, like, a real tight sweater?"
And that's the crux of the biscuit: the allure comes from the suggestion that you'll be able to do the uncovering yourself. If it's already done, well, you've got nothing else to look forward to.
(Disclosure: I'm one of those AANR people, not to be confused with AARP, though there's more overlap than you'd think.)
Mr. McCain, I linked to your post about Charles Johnson's attacks on Pamela Geller and others he deems as "Eurofascists", "Pam Geller: 'Poster Girl for Eurofascists' or Just Another 'Right-Wing Extremist'?"
ReplyDeleteHere's where I linked it: http://morgans2cents.blogspot.com/2009/04/focused-in-right-direction.html
You know, it's rather daunting to have this ginormous list of nothing but links to people linking to your articles which I've already read... I'd be curious how many people click them in this article.
ReplyDeleteA more efficient and effective tactic which might actually generate more click-throughs might be to have a weekly contest and link back to the top few that have linked you MOST often this particular week.