Full Disclosure - Third Superpower

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Full Disclosure

Authored by Michael Pate on April 25th, 2003 at 10:27 PM

Back when I was thinking of creating this site, I was partially inspired by this portion of Andrew Orlowski’s article :

Writing about Google’s collusion with the People’s Republic of China to block access to mainland users, censorship researcher Seth Finkelsetein observed: “Contrary to earlier utopian theories of the Internet, it takes very little effort for governments to cause certain information simply to vanish for a huge number of people.” Rub out the word ‘government’, and replace it with ‘weblog A-list’. In this case a commons resource, this very potent and quite viral phrase, was created by millions of people. But it was poisoned by a very select number of ‘bloggers’. Possibly a dozen, but no more than 30, we’d guess.

I was really curious about the phrase “weblog A-list.” So I set out to test it. This is a 10-day old site site with a 21-day old domain name. Yet it currently ranks 5th on a Google Search for “Second Superpower.” PageRank may have some faults, but it is thoughtful web design, not membership in some mythical blogger elite that matters.

Links in this entry:

Anti-war slogan coined, repurposed and Googlewashed... in 42 days
Google PageRank - Democracy or Corporate Muscle?
Google Search: second superpower
Google Technology
Whois - thirdsuperpower.com

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