For some reason RFB's market cap and incoming/outgoing link tallies are frozen at March 20 levels over at BlogShares. On the other hand the share price is updated dynamically (and, gratifyingly, I suppose, has been on a pleasing upward curve lately).
One interesting thing is that the people who've acquired shares of RFB frequently belong to blogs that I don't recognize, meaning they either haven't linked to me or haven't sent any traffic my way. It's apparently another subset of my readership, so BS is doing me a service by helping me find more of my extended community.
Another thing is that in the last week or so I've received gifts of shares from three different people. Thanks! I gather this is a recently added feature? One improvement I could suggest is that the autogenerated email message announcing the gift should include a reply-to address for the giver. Otherwise, thanking people properly and individually requires navigating over to BS or to the giver's site and looking for an email address. It's not prohibitively difficult but it has stymied me in my usual overloaded email experience. Just a little user-interface improvement suggestion.
Another interesting factoid is that someone now owns more shares in RFB than I do. What does it all mean?
categories: metablog
2:57:55 PM 
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This site published an allegation that the occupying troops declared open season on looting. Was this a propaganda effort (look! freedom!) that got out of hand? When you couple it with reports that much of the museum looting was "professional" in nature, it looks pretty ugly. (Not as ugly as maimed human beings, but centuries from now it's the cultural patrimony that may have disappeared already into private collections that will be missed.)
categories: x-syndicate
2:17:08 PM say what []
Blogging has gotten pretty big in Iran, which is no surprise given the democratic strivings emerging from the enormous Persian youth culture. Now it appears that one Iranian blogger/journalist has been arrested. He is "accused of threatening the national security by giving interviews to Persian language radios outside Iran, wrtiting articles both in newspapers and his weblog."
12:42:28 PM say what []
